Ryoo Seung-wan (류승완)

Designed to sponsor Cinematheque, "Cinematheque Friends Film Festival", raises the curtain on January 15.

The festival in its 5th year will continue until February 28 at Seoul Art Cinema in Jongno-gu, Seoul.Movie directors, actors and industry representatives will choose the movies to screen during the festival and engage in talks with audiences.

More than 20 celebrities including directors Park Chan-wook and Jeon Gye-soo, actor Ahn Seong-gi and movie critic Jeong Seong-il will attend the event.

The program line-up includes "Cinema Club" where aspiring movie directors can converse with star directors including Bong Joon-ho and ...More

Actor Ryoo Seong-beom (29) has been building a considerable filmography for the last 10 years. It includes various genres from noir to comedy, unknown short films, animation voice work, and impressive works in which he was acting as a special guest.

It also includes director Lee Moo-young's "Everlasting Husband" which could be considered Ryoo's first romantic movie, the original cartoon of Kang Pool "29 years" which could not be filmed to completion, and the omnibus movie "Mankind Fall Report" which was filmed but never released.

Ryoo Seong-beom, who was interviewed on Dec. 28 in a cafe located in Kangnam, expressed that this whole work is a "process".

Ryoo said, " I choose a work based on the impression I get from it. I will probably be able to tell if the work has outstanding artistic merit only on my dying day, or I may never know about that. I always consider every role and am upset when the role does not go well. However, every step is a part of the process". "No Mercy", which will open soon, is also a part of the process, as well as one of Ryoo's inflection-painted works....More

This year's Mise-en-scene Short Film festival will showcase a total of 120 films. The film festival whose focus is genre short films will feature films genres normally associated with feature length films.  These genres include horror, fantasy, love and even action.  It features 57 films in the official section and the invitation section for foreign films focuses on varied stories surrounding the topic of death.
 
Behind the scenes is a wealth of talent and Korean film alumi. The committee chair this year is director ...More

This year's New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) invites seven Korean features and 10 Korean shorts to its 8th edition, running June 19 – July 5 in Manhattan. Of the seven features, four are North American premieres: Ryoo Seung-wan's "Dachimawa Lee", Kim Ki-duk's "Dream", ...More

Jeonju, a city about three hours southwest of Seoul, is known for its welcoming citizenry, its signature dish bibimbap (mixed rice and vegetables with gochujang, red pepper paste) and some of Korea's loveliest surviving pre-modern architecture and folk culture.

In Korea's beautiful springtime, the city with the heart of a small town gets more cosmopolitan as it hosts the Jeonju International Film Festival, commonly known as JIFF.

The festival has made its name by sticking to its principle of focusing on promising digital, independent and experimental films, whereas most international film festivals usually boast their number of world or national premieres.

The festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

The 10th Jeonju International Film Festival will be held from Apr. 30 through May 8, featuring 200 films from 42 countries.

The festival will open with "Short! Short! Short! 2009", a digital omnibus film about Korean society being obsessed with money.

The film, which intersperses humor with satire, was created by 10 up-and-coming Korean directors, including Kim Young-nam (previous work "Don't Look Back"), Choi Ik-hwan ("...More