Han Jae-rim (한재림)

PPP Awards Announced

Source | 2009/10/22 | 0 comments | Permalink |

The Pusan International Film Festival's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) – an Asian feature project financing platform – announced the winners of various awards handed-out to six of the 30 projects pitched during the event. PPP ran Oct 11 – 14 during the festival and its attendant Asian Film Market.

The top winner was Decadent Sisters, a new project by Japanese director-producer AOYAMA Shinji (Eureka, Sad Vacation). It won the Pusan Award of US $20,000 presented by Busan Metropolitan City.

A Korean project was also a big winner with director HAN Jae-rim ("The Rules of Dating", "The Show Must Go On") collecting the Kodak Award of $17,000 – a prize committed to a Korean PPP project.

The CJ Entertainment award of $10,000 went to Indian director Pan Nalin for his project Slightly Sane. The Lotte Award which selects a Korean project at PPP, chose "Villain and Widow" by SON Jae-gon for a prize of $8,000.

The Wooridul Award of $8,000 went to New Policemen Stories by YANG Jin, ...| More

Manilla's Korean Film Festival Kicks Off

Source | 2009/10/01 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Manilla's 2009 Korean Film Festival opened Sept 23, offering free screenings to the public during its one week run. Sponsored by the Korean Embassy and held at Shangri-La Plaza, the fest showcases seven Korean features and celebrates the "Philippines-Republic of Korea Friendship Year".

The program features some of the most artistically accomplished films in Korean cinema over the last 9 years, including renowned and emerging directors. Korean TV dramas are already popular in the Philippines, but audiences have yet to be exposed to Korean feature filmmaking.

The seven films in the program are "Old Boy" (PARK Chan-wook), "Barking Dogs Never Bite" (BONG Joon-ho), "Sa-Kwa" (KANG Yi-kwan), "Beyond the Years" (IM Kwon-taek), "The Show Must Go On" (HAN Jae-rim), "Forbidden Quest" (KIM Dae-woo) and "Driving with My Wife's Lover" (KIM Tae-sik).

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HAN Jae-rim's Super-Hero Project Unveils at Pusan

Source | 2009/08/31 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Director HAN Jae-rim will reveal his third feature film project "Trace" – a US $7.7 million superhero blockbuster – at the Asian Film Market's PPP, a major project market that takes place during the Pusan Int'l Film Festival in October.

Based on a web-based comic series by the same title, Trace is the story of Yoon-sung, a young man who wakes up with supernatural powers after days in a coma after an assault that takes his father's life. When the assault remains unsolved due to an apathetic police, Yoon-sung takes matters into his own hands. He discovers that another man with superpowers, Hee-sup, was involved and that he wants Yoon-sung dead.

The project is to be produced by Syd Lim and SEO Woo-sik of Barunson Film Division. The company has produced such major titles as KIM Ji-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" and BONG Joon-ho's "Mother - 2009". "Trace" is being billed as Korea's first superhero blockbuster.

HAN debuted in 2005 with "The Rules of Dating", a caus...| More

BONG Joon-ho spearheads PPP

Source | 2009/08/12 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) unveiled the line-up of Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP). Korean directors BONG Joon-ho, HEO Jin-ho, NOH Kyeong-tae, SON Jae-gon, HAN Jae-rim, and LEE Myeong-se are among the influential names in cinema who will present their upcoming project at the 2009 edition. PIFF calls this year's selection the "toughest ever due to the many quality projects".

BONG will attend PPP with his French comic adaptation "Le Transperceneige" which will be produced by PARK Chan-wook.

LEE Myeong-se's next film is titled "Youth is Reckless". The film chronicles Japanese legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi.

HEO Jin-ho will be present with his Chinese co-production "Season of Good Rain". SON Jae-gon returns with "Villain and Widow", HAN Jae-rim presents "Trace", and NOH Kyeong-tae is to showcase his third yet untitled film.

Furthermore, Korean JEONG Jae-eun is part of PPP with a Japanese produced film, while Korean producer KO Young-jae ("Old Boy") participates w...| More

Wisconsin Film Fest Focuses on Korea

Source | 2009/04/16 | 0 comments | Permalink |

The 11th Wisconsin Film Festival, held annually at the University of Wisconsin in the U.S., presents a 'Focus on South Korea' for its 2009 edition running April 2 – 5. Five critically acclaimed Korean features will screen during the event along with one Canadian-Korean short film.

Indie favorite "Daytime Drinking" by NOH Young-seok will screen, continuing its tour of international festivals after gaining attention at Jeonju, Busan and Toronto. Cannes winner "Secret Sunshine" by LEE Chang-dong, which won actress JEON Do-yeon a host of awards, was also selected.

Rounding out the focus is Korean-American director KIM So-yong's second feature "Treeless Mountain", which won best film at Dubai Int'l Film Fest, and was the director's first shot entirely in Korea; HAN Jae-rim's sophomore effort, comic-drama "The Show Must Go On", starring SONG Kang-ho as a middling gangster; and Chinese-Korean director ZHANG Lu's second feature "Grain in Ear", which won the New Currents award at Pu...| More