Actors Lee Youngae & Kim Sangkyung, Appointed as Jury Members for the Actor & Actress of the Year Award at the 27th Busan International Film Festival

The 27th Busan International Film Festival, which will be held for 10 days from October 5 to 14, has appointed actor Lee Youngae and actor Kim Sangkyung as jury members for the ‘Actor & Actress of the Year Award.’ The Actor & Actress of the Year Award ...

PELICAN BLOOD Picks Up Best of Bucheon Prize at 24th BiFan

The 24th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan), which was staged as a hybrid online and offline event this year, wound to a close after eight days with its awards ceremony and closing film presentation at the CGV Sopoong in Bucheon on the eveni...

JUNG Jin-woo, AHN Ji-hye, LEE Min-ji and CHO Sun-ki to Appear in SLATE

Sophomore Film from GANG Director JO Ba-reun JIN Jung-woo, AHN Ji-hye, LEE Min-ji and CHO Sun-ki have signed on to star in the film Slate (literal title), the sophomore film of GANG (2019) director JO Ba-reun. Slate will follow the story of an actor who dreams...

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...

CGV ARTHOUSE Filmmaker-in-Residence Project Awards funding to 3 Indie Korean Films

On December 21, CGV ARTHOUSE announced that CHO Hyunhoon’s Jane, LEE Seung-moon’s documentary Dance sports Girls, and LIM Tea-gue’s The Seeds of Violence would each receive 5 million Korean won as part of its Korean Filmmaker-in-Residence Project. In addition,...

BIFF New Currents Prizes Go to KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER and THE DONOR

The 21st edition of the Busan International Film Festival took place this October. The festival showed 299 films this year, a similar figure to previous years. The festival’s New Currents competition, a signature section which welcomes first or second works by...