JIFF Reveals Jeonju Cinema Projects for 21st Edition

The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) has revealed the three Jeonju Cinema Projects that will populate its 21st edition, which will begin May 28. This year’s titles will be the homegrown films Three Sisters by LEE Seung-won and A Distant Place by PARK ...

PARK Jung-bum Awarded Special Jury Prize at Locarno

PARK Jung-bum’s third film Height of the Wave has picked up the Special Jury Prize in competition at the 72nd Locarno International Film Festival. The film stars LEE Seung-yeon (House of Hummingbird) as a police officer who is restationed to an out-of-the-way ...

JIFF Announces 4 Jeonju Cinema Projects for 2019 Edition

The Jeonju International Film Festival has annouced this year’s Jeonju Cinema Projects, which will screen at the festival’s forthcoming edition in May. The 2019 JCPs will include JEON Jee-hee’s KUKDO, KO Hee-young’s The Breathing of the Fire, KIM Jong-kwan’s B...

Awards Winners Announced for MSFF 2018

The Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival (MSFF) held its 17th edition this year from June 28 to July 4, once again seeking out the next generation of voices in the Korean film industry. Winners were announced for each festival’s five main sections, however, unlik...

BAMSEOM PIRATES Wins Wildflower Grand Prize

JUNG Yoon-suk’s sophomore documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (2017) became the first ever documentary film to pick up the Grand Prize at the Wildflower Film Awards, which held their fifth edition on Thursday, April 12. A documentary following a punk ban...

JIFF Expands to 5 Jeonju Cinema Projects in 2018

The Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) announced its 2018 Jeonju Cinema Projects last month, which have been expanded this year to include five titles, as opposed to the trios that have been featured in earlier editions. This year’s JCP filmmakers will ...

Jeonju Project Market Operates MiddleEarth Lab

Jeonju Project Market (JPM) sponsored by Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is operating the MiddleEarth Lab, a research center to plan and develop of small and medium projects under USD 3.5 million production cost. MiddleEarth Lab will generate various...

Wildflowers Film Awards Return for 4th Edition

The Wildflower Film Awards Korea will return for their 4th edition on April 12th. Run by Korean film critic Darcy Paquet, with fellow critics OH Dong-jin serving as organizing director, the event celebrates the achievement in Korea’s vibrant independent cinema...

Jeonju Cinema Project 2017 Participants Announced

The Jeonju International Film Festival’s annual Jeonju Cinema Project has announced its 2017 participants. Unlike previous years, all three of next year’s directors hail from Korea. The 2017 JCP films will be made by LEE Chang-jae, KIM Yang-hee and KIM Dae-hwa...

THE THRONE Up for 2 Awards at APSAs

A quartet of Korean productions are featured among the nominations of next month’s 10th edition of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Chief among them is LEE Joon-ik’s smash hit Joseon Era period drama The Throne, which received two nods, in the Best Achievement ...