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KIM So-yong's "Treeless Mountain" premieres at Toronto (Source)
Major Korean Films Offered With English Subtitles (Source)
"West 32nd" Breaks Down NY Koreatown (Source)
Director Espouses Intuition in Filmmaking (Source)
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"In Between Days" is a joint production between the USA, Canada and South Korea.
Synopsis
Aimie, a newly arrived Korean immigrant teenager, has fallen in love with her best and only friend, Tran. She tries to express her feelings for him, but is scared of losing their friendship. Their misunderstood affection for each other creates a delicate relationship that is challenged by the demands of living in a new country. To spend more time with Tran, Aimie drops out of her English class, which she is failing. She fights against her mother who wants to remarry and then realizes she’s losing Tran to an Americanized Korean girl. Aimie’s world becomes more isolated, until she is forced to look inside herself for answers.
Source http://filmsalt.com/soandbrad/sbinbetday.htm |
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 Korean-American director KIM So-yong's "Treeless Mountain" has been selected by Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it will make its world premiere. Her feature debut film, "In Between Days", was selected for the screenings at Berlin, Toronto, Sundance and Pusan International Film Festival(PIFF) and was supported by Korean Film Council (KOFIC) for Korean Filmmakers participating in international film festivals and independent film awards.
"Treeless Mountain" is about a summer of two sisters who have no choice but to spend it with their alcoholic aunt. The story is semi-autobiographical.
"In Between Days" portrays a young Korean girl in the U.S. as she struggles with life in a foreign country and her feelings for a Korean-American friend.
At last year's TIFF, LEE Myeong-se's "M" was selected and was praised for his technical and visual achievements.
This year's edition of TIFF will run from September 4th to 13th.
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
CGV Yongsan in central Seoul will devote a screen to the exclusive showing of popular domestic movies with English-language subtitles, an unprecedented move by a movie theater.
"It's to serve the many foreigners in Korea who want to watch Korean films. They won't have to wait for DVDs with English-language subtitles anymore", Chong Choe from CJ Entermatinment's International Strategy team told The Korea Times.
The country's largest motion picture studio, CJ Entertainment and multiplex theater giant CGV have teamed up for this long-term project, and will begin with "A Man Who Was Superman", starring high-profile actors Jeon Ji-hyeon (`My Sassy Girl's" Gianna Jeon) and Hwang Jeong-min ("Happiness"). Coming to CGV Yongsan Jan. 31, it will have regular showings for the entire duration of the film's run in Korea.
For the time being, there will be seven showings per day through Feb. 4. "That's a lot of showings, and we plan to maintain this for the ...| More |
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
It gets down-and-dirty like the gritty streets of New York. In "West 32nd", Korean-American director Michael Kang gives the classic detective genre a fresh twist as he tells the untold story of a Korea that exists in the heart of the Big Apple.
West 32nd Street is the geographic location of New York Koreatown (K-town) near the Empire State Building. But even those who are familiar with the "noraebang" (karaoke), stationary stores and "seoleongtang" (Korean beef broth) restaurants lining the strip will be shocked to know that there lies a whole new world beneath it all -- where Korean gangsters and "organized" mayhem reign.
While snippets of Koreatown have began to appear (fleetingly) as an exotic backdrop in Hollywood films like "Collateral" (2004) and "Shoot 'Em Up" (2007), it remained a relatively unexplored territory, and "West 32nd" breaks it down, once and for all.
In the dark corner of K-town, a bar owner Jin-ho (Jeong Joon-ho) is shot t...| More |
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 By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
The script usually plays an integral part of filmmaking, but it is virtually non-existent for internationally acclaimed director Kim So-yong. For the 39-year-old, intuition, spontaneity and creating everything from scratch with amateur actors are the special ingredients.
The Korean-American made an international breakthrough with her first film "In Between Days" (2006), winning awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival among others. She is now back in Korea for her next project "Treeless Mountains", with support from the Cannes Cinema Foundation.
"You always have to keep (gut feeling and intuition). It's like natural instinct. Sometimes I think people forget it because you're trained to behave in certain ways, trained to fit into society... But I think it's really important for the creative process to keep your sense of intuition", she said in an interview with The Korea Times at a cafe near Hongdae, northern Seo...| More |
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"In Between Days" and "Let's Not Cry!" share striking similarities: Korean directors, exotic (at least in the eyes of Korean audiences) locations, and refined experimental spirits which earned the filmmakers awards at international film festivals.
"In Between Days", a debut feature by Kim So-yong, a Korean American multimedia artist, delves into the life of a Korean immigrant who has to deal with not only the strangeness of adapting to a new culture but also a sense of loneliness that deepens along with her faltering relationship with a boy she has a crush on.
This Sundance and Berlin prize-winner, to be released nationwide on Sept. 6, literally zooms in on Aimie (Jiseon Kim), a teenage girl who recently arrived in a North American city. But she finds it hard to find a comfortable place. She's already bored with her school, thanks largely to her poor English, and even the small apartment where she lives with her divorced mother looks dreary as the depressing winter cityscape the ...| More |
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