Texture of Skin (2005) - 살결 (Sal-gyeol)

11th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan)

2007/06/22 | Source | Permalink |

Korea's second-largest film event, the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) is also Asia's top genre film fest. This year running July 12th to the 21st, the fantasy fueled fest will screen 215 films, opening with Korean director Hwang Kyoo-deok's supernatural romance "For Eternal Hearts" and closing with hit Indonesian thriller, Kala by Joko Anwar.

The festival's chief competition section Puchon Choice will present 10 features from Asia, Europe and the USA, including Korean independent film "Resurrection of the Butterfly" by KIM Min-sook. The 60-film World cinema section will screen films from around the globe including premiers of Korean films "Beautiful Sunday", Aseurai and Code of a Duel, the later two being DV works. Previous local releases "Texture of Skin" and "Cinderella" will also screen here, while Jang Jin's drama "A Day with My Son" and animated feature "Robot Taekwon V" (1976) will play in the Family section.

Each year PiFan also unearths treas...| More

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Art House Venue in Seoul Tempts Foreigners

2007/05/08 | Source | Permalink |

Korean film distribution company Mirovision has built an intimate state of the art theater that will run Korean independent and artistically oriented foreign films. The 10 year old film company says it is dedicated to bringing the best of alternative cinema to Seoul audiences, and its 120 seat venue named Miro Space will launch with two English-subtitled critically praised Korean features.

Opening May 3rd was KIM Tae-sik's "Driving With My Wife's Lover", which has toured various high profile festivals including Sundance and the Berlinale. In this black-comedy, small-town shop owner Tae-han learns that his wife is having an affair with Joong-sik, a Seoul taxi-driver. Intending to violently confront him, Tae-han goes to Seoul and hails Joog-sik's cab, asking for a long-distance trip back to his small town.

From May 10th, LEE Seong-gang's "Texture of Skin" will run for one week, also with English subtitles. It is the live-action feature debut of director LEE, known for his ani...| More

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Theater looking for independent niche among Korean and foreign film buffs

2007/05/03 | Source | Permalink |

Miro Space is a theater built and run by the film company Mirovision. For the past ten years, the company says it has been dedicated to bringing independent Korean and foreign films to Seoul audiences. In May, it will be showing the feature film debuts of two Korean directors. Both films will have English subtitles.

First up is Kim Tae-sik's "Driving with My Wife's Lover", which opens on May 3. The film is about a man named Tae-han (Park Kwang-jeong), who believes his wife is having an affair with a taxi driver (Jeong Bo-seok). In this combination road trip/drama, Tae-han hires his wife Eun-su (Kim Sang-mi)'s lover to drive him from Seoul to the east coast, all the while steering his wife and the unsuspecting cabbie into a trap.

Lee Seong-gang's "Texture of Skin" (Sal-gyul) is set to begin its run at Miro Space on May 10. In his first feature-length film, the prize-winning director for short and animated films tells the story of photographer Min-woo (Kim Yoon-tae), who begins an ...| More

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KOFIC awards marketing support for arthouse/digital films

2006/06/16 | Source | Permalink |

The Korean Film Council has announced the recipients of the first phase of its 2006 Marketing Support for Arthouse and Digital Films fund. The fund provides financial support to arthouse works or digital features to promote diversity on the nation's screens and to help such films compete in a marketplace with increasingly stringent commercial demands.

In the case of arthouse films, 50 million won (~$54,000) will be provided to pay for advertising and other kinds of marketing costs, including the cost of striking prints for release. In Korea's competitive distribution environment, low-budget works face a particularly difficult struggle in getting noticed by viewers, and so this fund is intended to provide assistance in this area. A total of 8 features were submitted for consideration

In the case of feature-length digital films, 25 million won (~$27,000) will be provided towards the rental of a DLP digital projector, so that such works can be screened in their original format. In t...| More

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Korean film 'Texture of Skin' competes for awarding a prize in MIFF

2005/06/18 | Source | Permalink |

Korean film 'Texture of Skin' directed by Lee Seong-gang competes for awarding a prize in the Perspective competition of the 27th MIFF (Moscow International Film Festival), which raised its curtain on June 17 in Moscow, Russia.

His new movie 'Texture of Skin' is portraying a story in which a promising photographer Min-woo ran into his ex-lover, Jae-hee. Jae-hee proposes secret love affair although she is married. They meet every day.

Once Min-woo witnesses a runaway car accident.watching its victim die in his hands. In the afternoon Min-woo at the climax of love scene with Jae-hee is haunted by the phantom of a girl. From then on she starts pursuing Min-woo for hours on end.

Film maker Lee Seong-gang is famous as an animation director too as his first bold attempt 'My beautiful Girl, Mari' at a full-length feature has been rewarded with an invitation to compete in the Feature Film category at the 2002 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France.

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