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  Smartphone film fest accepting submissions
  2011/12/21, Source,
  The 2nd Olleh Smartphone Film Festival invites filmmaker Lee Joon-ik, left, as festival director and his colleagues Bong Man-dae, center, and Lim Pil-seong as judges. / Courtesy of Olleh Smartphone Film Festival By Lee  Hyo-won A local film festival is accepting submissions of short works shot with a smartphone beginning next month,...More

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  Top issues in the 2011 Korean film industry
  2011/12/07, Source,
  From sleeper hits to leading directors shooting abroad, society-changing films and game-changing moves, 2011 has been a surprising year for the Korean film industry. KANG Byeong-jin profiles the issues. Unexpected smash hits from "Sunny - 2010" and "Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon" - a year when dark horses rather than anticipated large-scale films led the race at the box office,...More

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  Jeonju to meet increased demand with new soundstage
  2011/11/11, Source,
  Yonhap News Agency reports that the home city of the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) is planning to build more special studio space in the Jeonju Cinema Studio by July 2012. The new space will be comprised of a 795㎡ soundstage along with 560㎡ of attached facilities including a make-up room. The soundstage will be house special sets such as hospital and police station interiors, for which demand has been on the rise. Jeonju City stated that they found a need for more facilities to meet the increasing numbers of filmmakers choosing to shoot there,...More

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  Korean films at NYAFF 2011 back with a 'Vengeance'
  2011/09/19, Source,
  "Korean films are catching Hollywood's attention", declared Goran Topalovic, "because they are best known for their raw humanity". Topalovic should know. He is a co-founder of the annual New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), one of the city's most singular film festivals focusing on cutting-edge films from Korea, China, and Japan. And this year, with the support of the Korean Cultural Service of New York, the festival introduced an unprecedented number of Korean thrillers, 11 in total, under the synoptic banner, 'Sea of Revenge'.,...More