Kim Yoon-tae (김윤태)

SeNef jumps onto crowded film festival bandwagon

2007/08/22 | Source | Permalink |

As usual, dozens of reporters and photographers yesterday attended a news conference at the KT Art Hall in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, where organizers announced the outline of the forthcoming Seoul International Film Festival. What was unusual was that when organizers announced that it was time for a Q&A session, no reporter ventured out to throw a question -- not even one as banal as, "Would you explain the main section in more detail?"

Not that the festival has nothing newsworthy about which to ask. The event features some 260 films and will begin Sept. 6, putting together offline and online venues in a bid to stay up-to-date with an internet-oriented cinema culture. Thirteen foreign guests, including Charles Tesson, former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cinema, will fly in to Seoul for the event. Kim Yoon-jin ("Lost") will join the festival as a jury member for its online shorts competition section. And the festival has big corporate sponsors, such as Samsung Electronics.

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Theater looking for independent niche among Korean and foreign film buffs

2007/05/03 | Source | Permalink |

Miro Space is a theater built and run by the film company Mirovision. For the past ten years, the company says it has been dedicated to bringing independent Korean and foreign films to Seoul audiences. In May, it will be showing the feature film debuts of two Korean directors. Both films will have English subtitles.

First up is Kim Tae-sik's "Driving with My Wife's Lover", which opens on May 3. The film is about a man named Tae-han (Park Kwang-jeong), who believes his wife is having an affair with a taxi driver (Jeong Bo-seok). In this combination road trip/drama, Tae-han hires his wife Eun-su (Kim Sang-mi)'s lover to drive him from Seoul to the east coast, all the while steering his wife and the unsuspecting cabbie into a trap.

Lee Seong-gang's "Texture of Skin" (Sal-gyul) is set to begin its run at Miro Space on May 10. In his first feature-length film, the prize-winning director for short and animated films tells the story of photographer Min-woo (Kim Yoon-tae), who begins an ...| More

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