| DC hosts Korean film fest (Source) |
2008/05/30 |
The Korean Film Festival DC 2008 opened already in early April, and is still running until June 12. The festival is organised by the Smithsonian Institute with the assistance of several Korean organisations, including the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).
Tom Vick, programmer, thinks it's "only a slight exaggeration to say that South Korea is in the process of conquering the world with its movies". He praises the diversity in Korean cinema, and speaks of a "wealth of talent and creativity" as the force behind the developments in Korean cinema.
The festival programmed a mix of popular blockbusters, documentaries, animation, and independent films. The films in June are the animation "Empress Chung", "Love is a Crazy Thing", and "The King and the Clown".
Yi Ch'ang-ho (KOFIC)
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| Korean Film Festival 2008 at the Smithsonian (Source) |
2008/05/28 |
The Smithsonian Institution's Korean Film Festival DC 2008, organized through the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries and made possible by the Korea Foundation, the Korean Film Council, and the US-Korea Business Council, continues into June. The remaining film showings fall into two categories: New Korean Cinema and "Love is a Crazy Thing". More information available is at http://www.asia.si.edu/koreanfilm2008/
"Empress Chung": Korean Folktale through Animated Film
Tuesday, June 3 at 7 p.m.
Meyer Auditorium in the Freer Gallery of Art
Independence Avenue at 12th Street, SW, Washington D.C.
For more information: 202 633 1000
Free with a ticket
Join Dr. Heinz Insu Fenkl, Associate Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, for a stimulating discussion of Nelson Shin's rarely screened animated film "Empress Chung". Explore the way this film, based on the folktale Shimchong, the Blindman's Daughter, reflects central Korean values. 200... |More
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| 2nd London Korean Film Festival Starts (Source) |
2007/11/01 |
15 Korean films are being showcased this November at the 2nd annual London Korean Film Festival, screening at the Barbican in London's financial district. Opening the weeklong festival, which runs the 2nd to the 8th, is KIM Ki-duk's 2007 Cannes competition entry, "Breath". The film quickly sold-out as has the festival's curtain-closer, "I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK", which won the Berlin Alfred Bauer prize this year for director PARK Chan-wook.
Director PARK will present the closing film and lead a 'Screen-Talk' with the audience following the screening. Two films from PARK's famed vengeance trilogy, "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" (2006) and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" (2002) will also be screened, forming a mini-retrospective of the director's work.
Along with "Breath", KIM's 2006 feature Time will also be screened. Other films in the program are festival-favourite and Thessaloniki top prize winner "Family Ties" ("The Birth of a Family") by KIM Tae-yong, gangster-yarn "A... |More
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| Moscow to Host Inter-Korean Film Festival (Source) |
2005/11/30 |
Moscow will host an inter-Korean film festival next month to mark the 60th anniversary of Korean liberation from Japanese rule.
The Gyeoreh Ilbo, a daily published by ethnic Koreans in Russia, said Wednesday that the festival will run from December 19th to the 21st.
On the schedule are the North Korean films "Girl Selling Flowers", "Empress Chung" and "Hong Kil-dong".
"Hong Kil-dong" is based on a famous 17-century novel about a farmer who fights government corruption and helps the poor. "Empress Chung" is an animated inter-Korean production about a traditional Korean folktale.
South Korean films at the festival will include the action-fantasy film "Heaven's Soldiers" and "Fighter in the Wind", the true story of Korean-Japanese Choi Bae-dal, who founded Kyokushin karate school as Matsutatsu Oyama.
During the festival period, the organizer will also show videos of Goryeo Dynasty relics and hold events on Korean liberation.
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| Two Korean Films Make U.S. Debut (Source) |
2005/10/08 |
'The President's Last Bang' and 'Empress Chung' open in New York
Ronda Hauben (netizen2)
Several Korean films are making their U.S. debut in New York City this fall. "Empress Chung" was shown by the Korea Society on Sept. 21, 2005. This animation is directed by Nelson Shin. Much of the work on creating the animation was done as part of a joint project employing animators in North Korean to do the animation work and South Koreans to do the story line and complete the film.
At its most fundamental level, the film is about reunification. The film portrays a classic story of honest folk being fleeced by crooks. Chung's father is presented as a loyal Minister who refuses to join those plotting against the King. He loses his lovely wife in a fire started by those who are part of the plot against the King. The Minister is blinded, but manages to save his baby daughter Chung, from the fire.
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