Director Kim Ji-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" and Na Hong-jin's "The Chaser" have been invited to screen at the 41st Sitges International Film Festival held in Catalonia, Spain from October 2nd to the 12th.
The two films will be featured as part of the festival's main program, "Fantastic Selection", along with Takashi Miike's "Crow's Zero" and "Tokyo!" an omnibus film directed by Bong Joon-ho, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry.
The Sitges International Film Festival was created in 1968. Sitges, Fantasporto and the Brussel International Film Festival are the three top "fantastic festivals" of the world.
In 2005, Lee Young-ae was awarded "Best Actress" at the Sitges festival for her performance in "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" (director Park Chan-wook), and in 2006, "The Host" (director Bong Joon-ho) received the "Orient Express" award....| More
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Currently working as layout and lighting artist for high-profile computer animation studio Pixar Joh Sung-yeon has come a long way from her studies in printmaking at Hongik University.
Here in Seoul for the "Pixar: 20 Years of Animation" exhibition, Joh talks in a lighthearted manner about her decision to go into the field of computer animation.
"I like trying different things out", she said during an interview with The Korea Herald. "After high school, I did printmaking. And when I went to America to study abroad, I saw that there was a field for animation".
Joh enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and majored in art and technology. For her master's thesis, she created the award-winning 3-D computer animation short, "Grandma" (2000).
With talent and guts to boot, the bold graduate made 50 copies of her thesis and sent it to various festivals.
"I sent it to major festivals and to events where the application fee was cheap", she explained.
Korean super hero character Robot Taekwon V has become the nation's goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
The 32-year-old cartoon hero is the first character to become the ambassador of an international organization.
Janice Lyn Marshall, the representative of the Seoul bureau of the UNHCR, and Shin Chul, the president of the Taekwon V Co. Ltd., signed the agreement for the ambassadorship at the "Taekwon V Celebration 2008" held at Puchon (Bucheon) July 24. Puchon is the venue of the Puchon International Film Festival (PIFAN), which ended July 25.
"Taekwon V is a character that protects the weak and gives hope and courage to people. He is more than perfect to be the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR", said Marshall at the ceremony.
"Taekwon V is also a character that has been adored by Koreans through many generations, so we hope this will be a chance to remind them of refugee problems in Korean societ...| More
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The Pucheon International Fantastic Film Festival held its inaugural project market, called NAFF2008 (Network of Asian Fantastic Films) amidst great interest from local and international participants. On Wednesday July 23rd, concluding a four-day run, the results of NAFF's project development market 'It Of the 19 projects in the market, an international jury of three selected four projects to US $10,000 for production support. They included two Korean projects: KIM Jin-won's horror movie 'The Devils', which won the PiFan award and JANG Hyeong-yeon's animated comedy 'My Girlfriend is a Brindled Cow', which won the NAFF award.
Other winners were Frank Lin of the USA for his '0 DB', a hip-hop sci-fi which won the Puchon Award, and China's Zhang Yong for 'Bomb Shelter', a ghostly mystery, won the XTM Extreme Project award.
5 films at 'It Project' also won post-production support to the tune of $5000 each. They were Chinese director Xie Dong's '2006 Speed Delivery' and Nathan Ad...| More
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You might know her from Finkl or her role as a queen in SBS "King and I".
Lee Jin, will be returning to the screens as a ghost, Hwan Hwang Nyeo in "Evil Twin: Hwan Hwang Nyeo" version.
Hwan Hwang Nyeo is a woman who was taken as a war prisoner to China. She returns to her homeland only to be rejected by her family. Many women were in her position at that time ...| More
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She married last April and is known to be expecting a honeymoon baby!
Park Eun-hye has been to Fiji Island for a photoshoot with her husband where she went to the hospital for a brief checkup where she foundout that she was 10 weeks pregnant! ...| More
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IF... there was to be a Korean version of the show "Tudors2: Lady of 1000days" 33% of 2,195 people who participated in the survey chose Han Ye-seul as the best actress fit for Anne Boleyn.
Why? Because of her modern and hard to get femme fatal image she would be fit to be...| More
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