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            <title><![CDATA[After Venom, Thanos and Payakan, The Time Has Come for Korean Creatures]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What would a CGI creature look like in a Korean film if it was made by the very same VFX artists who worked on Avatar? Many would rush to the nearest theater to see it with their own eyes. We do not have to wait long to see it happen. Chang Jungmin, a 3D modeling artist who worked on some of the visual effects in Hollywood blockbusters Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water (hereafter referred to as Avatar 2), Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man 3, was scouted by Korean VFX company VA Studio (hereafter referred to as VA) as a managing director and head of 3D production. This is a good news for the industry, as well as for him, as he was hoping he could &#34;contribute to the development of the CGI industry in Korea.&#34; We met Chang Jungmin just four days after he left New Zealand’s VFX company Weta Digital, where he worked for 16 years. In his backpack, he was still carrying a copy of the Avatar 2 art book that his colleagues gave him as a parting gift.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beyond visual effects: Making the move to animation film production with Park Chanwook and Bong Joonho]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[&#34;He’s a creative person with an artistic disposition. I believe that sooner or later he will become a film director.&#34; In December 2022, Director Park Chanwook, who was busy filming The Sympathizer in LA, shared with us these words over the phone while his crew was setting the cameras for the next shot. The person he was referring to is 4th Creative Party CEO Lee Jeonhyoung.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trust is the Power, CEO Kil Youngmin of JK FILM That Produced Hero]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Korean film, Hero, which will mark the end of the year, follows the true story of Ahn Junggeun, a Korean-independence activist and commander of the Korean righteous army. The film depicts the time when he leaves his family with the firm resolution of Korean independence, carries out a great revolt, and sacrifices his life for his country. It is also a musical film that has moved every number of Hero, a creative musical that premiered in 2009, to the screen one by one. Actor Jung Sunghwa, the symbol of the musical, plays and sings Ahn Junggeun, a hero and young man fighting for the independence of his country while Actor Na Moonhee plays and sings his strong mother, Jo Maria. Let&#39;s talk about the film, Hero, with Kil Youngmin, the producer of the film and CEO of JK FILM, who has produced Korean blockbusters, including Haeundae, Ode to My Father, the Confidential Assignment series, Keys to the Heart, etc.- Due to the Pandemic, it would not have been easy for y]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lighting That Delivers Emotions, Lighting Director Hong Seungchul of The Night Owl]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Night Owl, which deals with the secrets of Crown Prince Sohyun&#39;s death, is a film about &#39;darkness.&#39; Kyungsoo (Ryu Junyeol), a blind acupuncturist in the palace, only can see faintly at night and the main stage where he acts is darkness. In this movie, how was the lighting work done using &#39;light?&#39; Starting with the lighting team for Siren in 2000, Lighting Director Hong Seungchul worked for a number of films, including Believer, The Throne, The Beauty Inside, and Eunkyo. Through the paper interview, we met Lighting Director Hong Seungchul who has been with the K-movie history since the early 2000s,- Tell us the point you cared about most when you directed the lighting for The Night Owl, please.= When I first read the script, I thought Kyungsoo&#39;s gazes were the most important. Due to the setting of Kyungsoo&#39;s perspective, it was necessary to emphasize the situation when Kyungsoo could see. So, I focused on increasing the three-dimensional transmiss]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best ‘Scene-stealer’ in Korean Cinema, Soaring as a King]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This fall, The Night Owl, a ‘Well-made’ Korean costume drama, is revitalizing the Korean theater district. And Actor Yoo Haijin is at the center of it. And he has already well-known as a strong box office powerhouse. In September, Actor Yoo Haijin revitalized the sluggish theater district with Confidential Assignment 2: International, in which he starred with Hyun Bin. If Confidential Assignment 2: International confirmed Yoo Haijin&#39;s ‘Ticket Power for Comedies’, The Night Owl is a work that once again confirms the wide range of his ability to pull off various characters in-depth.Released on November 23rd, The Night Owl surpassed 1 million viewers in a week and enjoys a steady box office hit, maintaining the top spot at the box office in the 2nd week of its release. Director Ahn Taejin, a former assistant director of King and the Clown, which recorded the first legend among Korean costume dramas with 10 million viewers, recalled Yoo Haijin when he planned the historic]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[If Hardscrabble & Burdensome Life is Falling Apart, Director Jung Yumi of House of Existence]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Director Jung Yumi&#39;s film, House of Existence, is an 8-minute short animation that depicts the gradual process of collapsing a house that seemed quite solid. Through the film, the director asks, &#34;What is the thing we can retrieve vividly without disappearing in time?&#34; Director Jung Yumi, who majored in animation at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), drew attention when her 2009 film Dust Kid was screened at the Directors&#39; Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes for the first time among Korean animations. Since then, she has built her reputation by winning the grand prize at the Zagreb International Animation Film Festival for the first time for her 2012 film Love Games and by advancing to the Berlinale Shorts Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival with her latest film House of Existence. Director Jung Yumi has continued to publish animations in picture books. Among them, Dust Kid and My Small Doll House won the Ragazzi Award at the Bologna Children&#39;s Book Fair for]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Producer Lee Junhan of Ajoomma, the First Korea-Singapore Co-production Film]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The film, Ajoomma, which had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) this year, depicts a happening when a middle-aged Singaporean woman who falls into the K-Wave comes to Korea. While Asian audiences reacted to the adventures of the middle-aged woman, the film was selected as one of the most popular films at BIFF this year. It is the first joint film between Korea and Singapore. Director Anthony Chen, the representative filmmaker of Singapore and who is well-known for the film Ilo Ilo, participated as the producer of the film, and South Korea&#39;s Lee Junhan joined as a co-producer with the new director He Shuming in charge of directing. Producer Lee Junhan earned his master&#39;s degree in film production in the United States and produced a number of long and short films, including The Strange Ones, screened at Sundance and SXSW. He also participated as a creative producer in the interactive VR film Horizon VR produced by Barunson, building a wide range of f]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Talking about 'Well-dying' in a Musical Suit, Park Eunkyung, Producer of Life is Beautiful]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Seyeon (Yum Jungah), who finds out that she&#39;s chronically ill, leads her husband to find her first love in high school. Their journey bears the happy school days with her best friend who she has lost contact with, and a love life with her blunt husband when he was a sweet guy. Also, singers such as Lee Moonsae, Yoo Yeol, and Lee Seungcheol accompany their journey with songs that Seyeon enjoyed a lot when she was young. Life is Beautiful, a road movie and jukebox musical, is a new work by The Lamp, a film production company that made A Taxi Driver, MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission, SAMJIN COMPANY ENGLISH CLASS, etc. CEO Park Eunkyung, the planner and producer of the film, Life is Beautiful, founded The Lamp in 2012 and is presenting a variety of films that are not bound to specific categories. To talk about the new film, we had an interview with Producer Park Eunkyung, who has been remarkably active, including winning the Best Producer award at the 2020 Women in Film Korea Festi]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Welcoming Audiences in 3 Years, Nam Dongchul, Program Director of BIFF]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Busan in the fall is crowded with audiences once again. The 27th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) will be held from October 5 to 14 throughout Busan, centering on the Busan Cinema Center in Haeundae-gu. The Busan International Film Festival, which will welcome audiences for every screening without social distancing for the first time in 3 years, is seeking new changes by increasing the number of venues where audiences and cineastes meet. From Nam Dongchul, the program director who joined BIFF in 2008 and served as the head of the Asian Film Market and the Korean Cinema programmer, let&#39;s hear about the changes in the festival and what the festival wants to keep unchanged.- BIFF declared going back to normal for the festival without social distancing in 3 years. Tell us how you felt while preparing for the film festival.= In the first year of COVID-19, we postponed the film festival for 2 weeks and reduced the number of screening films. However, we chose to screen onc]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Our Nineteen and Each's Twenty, Directors Lee Jaeeun & Lim Jisun of Kim Min-young of the Report Card]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Junghee, Minyoung, Susanna. The three friends of the acrostic poem club become 20 years old in their own circumstances. Instead of going to college, Junghee, working as a part-timer, goes to see Minyoung, who has become a college student in Seoul. Unlike Junghee, who is excited to meet her friend, Minyoung is only focusing on writing email to correct her grades. Based on unique humor and broad empathy, the film Kim Min-young of the Report Card depicts the scenery of the 20-year-old girls, which does not flow as they wish. The film received the Grand Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival and the Seoul International Women&#39;s Film Festival last year, praised by the audience. We had an interview with Director Lee Jaeeun and Director Lim Jisun, who showed their unique world through their debut film.We heard Kim Min-young of the Report Card was planned as a short film at the beginning. Tell us why it was extended into a feature film.= Director Lee Jaeeun: The short]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Director Park Gyutae of 6/45, a Fairy Tale Fantasy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The film, 6/45, which entered its 3rd week of release, surpassed 1 million viewers. It has consistently been on the top of the box office for more than a week among the summer blockbusters. The film 6/45 begins with a lottery ticket in the hands of a frontline soldier when it flies in the wind and crosses the Military Demarcation Line. When a North Korean soldier accidentally picks it up, a closed meeting over the prize money is held. It is the first new film in 15 years by Director Park Gyutae, who wrote the scripts of the films Hi, Dharma and Man on the Edge and made his directorial debut with Bunt. Here are some back stories about his new film from director Park Gyutae.- What was the charming point about the idea of 6/45? Tell us what made you decide to write and direct the film.= &#39;What if the winning ticket of the lottery flies to the North?&#39; The logline was quite interesting to me. I was sure that the irony of meeting and conflict between South and North Ko]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Finding Myself from the Antagonist's Face, Director Lim Sangsu of Drown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dowoo (Lee Joongok) runs an old motel in Hwacheon, Gangwon-do Province. On the night, when he is sleeping soundly, a murder takes place in his motel, and his elderly mother suffering from dementia goes missing on the same day. The villagers, who called Dowoo a filial son, suspect him first. In the meantime, even a young guest, who appears out of nowhere and hovers around Dowoo, makes him feel uncomfortable. The movie Drown is the directorial feature debut of Lim Sangsu from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), which builds up a thriller mood by overlapping the suspicious characters and the snowy winter lake. The film was invited to the 51st Rotterdam International Film Festival and the 23rd Jeonju International Film Festival.- What is the momentum that made you write the script of Drown?Ahead of my 40s, I felt lots of fear and anxiety. I was trying to write something, but it didn&#39;t work out around that time. So, I went to Taebaek to write honestly about the s]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA["On the plane back to Seoul from Cannes, I adapted Hunt right away."]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hunt, Lee Jungjae&#39;s directorial debut, stood at the center of the issue when it was screened at the Midnight Screenings at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The first production of Actor Lee Jungjae, the main character of Squid Game, which created a syndrome around the world, was enough to arouse curiosity not only in Korea but also in the film industry around the world.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Director Kim Hanmin of HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, the 2nd Episode of Admiral Yi Sunsin Trilogy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The total audience is 17.61 million. Director Kim Hanmin of ROARING CURRENTS (2014), who set the best box office hit record in Korean film history, has returned with ‘Admiral Yi Sunsin’ in the summer of 2022. HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, which will be released on July 27, is the 2nd episode of the ‘Admiral Yi Sunsin’s Trilogy,’ which will be released 8 years after ROARING CURRENTS.Director Kim Hanmin&#39;s ‘Admiral Yi Sunsin Trilogy’ is an unprecedented new attempt in Korean film history. First of all, it is the first time that a movie featuring an actual person is planned as a trilogy, and it is also the first time that three other actors play the same character, Admiral Yi Sunsin. In the 1st episode, ROARING CURRENTS, Actor Choi Minshik played Admiral Yi in the Battle of Myeongnyang in 1597, the 6th year of the Japanese Invasion of Korea. The second episode, HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, depicts the Battle of Hansan, where Admiral Yi won an ‘overwhelming victory’ off Hansan Island in 1592]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Story that Starts like Fate and Rolls with Curiosity, Director Choi Donghoon of Alienoid]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Genius of genre films such as Tazza: The High Rollers, The Thieves, and Assassination, Director Choi Donghoon has returned in 7 years with Alienoid, his new fantasy and SF film crossing the Goryeo Dynasty and modern times. Alienoid begins when aliens who have locked prisoners in human bodies appear over Seoul in 2022. Filmed for 387 days, Alienoid, a fantasy and SF, consists of two parts; the 1st episode will be released this summer, while the 2nd episode in 2023.- Director Choi Donghoon, you&#39;re characterized by casting a large number of star actors. Tell us about the casting background of the main characters for the film.= The films I made seem that the characters meet each other accidentally or by fate, go on adventures together, and break up after the adventures are over. I hoped many people could meet and get involved while working for the work. When casting the actors, Ryu Junyeol and Kim Woobin were the first ones in my heart. Actor Kim Woobin tr]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Movie as a Product of Nature, Writer Chung Seokyung of Decision to Leave]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Director Park Chanwook and Scriptwriter Chung Seokyung&#39;s melodramatic detective story Decision to Leave marks the 1st month of its release. The audience is giving steady and enthusiastic support to the suspenseful romance between &#39;Seorae (Tang Wei),&#39; the wife of a man who died unnaturally, and &#39;Haejun (Park Haeil),&#39; a detective hovering around her. As Director Park Chanwook&#39;s partner, who has been working with him since Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Scriptwriter Chung Seokyung also wrote a lot of screenplays and scripts, including the movies The Truth Beneath, Believer, TV series Mother, Little Women, a new drama series, etc. With Scriptwriter Chung Seokyung, let&#39;s find out what makes us ruminate Decision to Leave over and over again after we watched it.- The number of audiences for Decision to Leave exceeded 1 million on July 13. And the audience continues to watch it several times repeatedly, saying &#39;the more you watch it, the deeper meaning you can feel.&#39; What do yo]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Confidently!’ The Mindset of Korea's Top Musician on Cannes’ Red Carpet]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 2022, Actor Lee Jieun finished her first commercial film debut ceremony with Broker at the Festival de Cannes. Broker is the first Korean film directed by Japanese master Kore-eda Hirokazu, starring Song Kangho, Kang Dongwon, Bae Doona, Lee Jooyoung, etc. Broker depicts an unexpected and special journey of those who become involved around a baby box. Actor Lee Jieun played Soyoung in the film, an unmarried mom who wants to abandon her baby. While talking in an excited voice on Cannes’ red carpet for her first commercial film, she soon said as below in a calm voice.“When the camera showed me out of the blue, I made a heart that diffidently. It was the worst gesture that I made at Cannes. I thought I should do everything confidently and not do anything that looked stupid. However, while making the worst gesture, I thought I wanted to come to Cannes again before I die.”This is Lee Jieun. If she wants to do something, she surely does it. Thanks to this, every ste]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Stylish Film Has Never Died, Director Lee Ilha of I am More]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I am More is a musical documentary that reveals the life and love of More, a drag artist, on a full-color screen. Against the backdrop of popular songs embroidered in the 1980s and 1990s and folk music by Lee Lang, More talks, dances, and plays her life on the stage of a historic theater in New York, in the middle of Seoul Plaza, on a rural road in Muan, South Jeolla Province, where she was born and raised. I am More is Director Lee Ilha&#39;s 3rd feature documentary following A Crybaby Boxing Club and Counters, who studied and produced documentaries in Japan. After being introduced at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and screened at the Busan International Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival, the film is released to meet the audience.After ending your life in Japan continued from 2000, you finally settled in Korea in 2018. How were the past 4 years in Korea?I worked hard on making films during that time. I made I am More, and now I&#39;m work]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Reason for Not Getting Lost in the Darkness, Director Shin Yeonshick of Cassiopeia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cassiopeia is a film Director Shin Yeonshick and Actor Ahn Sungki met again 12 years after The Fair Love. In Cassiopeia, Actor Ahn Sungki plays Inwoo, a father who gets a chance to take care of his daughter belatedly. Inwoo&#39;s daughter, Sujin (Seo Hyeonjin), is rapidly losing her memory due to early dementia at the age of 30s. Inwoo helps Sujin repeat her routine. In that way, he teaches his daughter how to walk along the way based on Cassiopeia even in the darkness at night. We interviewed Director Shin Yeonshick to talk about the film and the script. Director Shin Yeonshick’s stories will continue on the screen with One Win, he directed based on the challenge of the women&#39;s volleyball team, and COBWEB, he was in charge of the script and the production.How did you start writing the script of Cassiopeia?I came up with several stories about father and daughter to work with Actor Ahn Sungki. Among them, I started to write the script of Cassiopeia because it could b]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cinematographer Hong Kyeongpyo of The Wandering Moon, the Wonder of Nature]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Broker, Cinematographer Hong Kyeongpyo&#39;s new film, is about to be released. Hong is the director of photography who filmed PARASITE, Burning, and The Wailing. The film Broker drew attention through the meeting of Japanese Director Koreeda Hirokazu, Korean actors, and Korean production staff. Before Broker, Director Lee Sangil&#39;s film The Wandering Moon met the audience through the 23rd Jeonju IFF. Based on Yuu Nagira&#39;s novel, The Wandering Moon depicts a story about people branded as victims and perpetrators of kidnapping crimes standing right in the prejudice of the world. Cinematographer Hong Kyeongpyo&#39;s camera in The Wandering Moon shows the lake, wind, and moonlight of a small Japanese city, all of which are flowing together with the emotions of the characters. We met Director Hong in Jeonju.- What impression did you get after reading the scenario?I read the novel first, and I thought it was filled with good details. In the scenario, the spaces were changed from the nove]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Reason We Visit Theaters, Oh Sujin, the Team Leader of Space Content at CJ CGV]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The wind of change is blowing in the theater district these days. The biggest reason may be the decline in sales due to the Pandemic, but changes in theaters that fit the trend of the times are also indispensable. The spatial content team at CJ CGV is considering various projects using the space in theaters to cope with such a change. Since setting up a team early last year, it has been passing through the Pandemic, starting with maximizing the audience&#39;s theater experience through special halls and increasing the list of things they can enjoy in the theater. We had an interview to find out new and diverse attempts using theaters from Oh Sujin, the team leader of the space content team at CJ CGV, who is thinking about &#39;sustainable space.&#39;- What does the spatial content team do?= As its name implies, the team is thinking about tangible and intangible content to fill the space in theaters. We have two main tasks. The first is to plan and launch special halls that allow visito]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Raising Favorability of Independent Art Films, Lee Jiyeon, Head of Indieground Center]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Indieground is a space established by theKorean Film Councilin August 2020 to improve the marketing and distribution environment of Korean independent art films. The Association of Korean Independent Film &amp; Video is in charge of the operation. As its name suggests, Indieground moves in all directions to strengthen the &#39;ground&#39; of Korean independent art films. With the keyword &#39;Independent Art Film,&#39; it is carrying out various projects such as online streaming of Korean independent art films, business matching between creators and distributors, educating independent film experts, supporting youth film education, supporting community cinema, and finding audiences, etc. After serving as Secretary-general of the Association of Korean Independent Film &amp; Video, Lee Jiyeon joined Indieground and has been leading the center since this year. Let&#39;s hear about Indieground&#39;s past one year and a half and its future from her.- Did you plan an online-oriented platform ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Story of Light & Shadow, Kingmaker's Director, Byun Sunghyun]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A politician who has lost elections all the time and a political strategist from North Korea who has lived soundlessly under anti-communist slogans that dominated the times. There seems no more failure for the two who have recognized each other. However, different beliefs create cracks among those who have been on a roll. Director Byun Sunghyun of &lt;Whatcha Wearin&#39;?&gt; and &lt;The Merciless&gt; brought the film &lt;Kingmaker&gt; set in the 1960s and 1970s elections. As the director of &lt;The Merciless&gt;, he maintains the emotional line even in the stylish film. Let&#39;s meet Director Byun Sunghyun through the video, who is busy filming the movie &lt;Gill Boksoon&gt;, starring Jeon Doyeon and Sul Kyunggu.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Considering Content in the New Normal Era, Kim Donghyun, Executive Director of Dexter Studios & CEO of Dexter Pictures, Co-producer of Escape from Mogadishu]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Escape from Mogadishu, the most beloved Korean movie in theaters this year, is the fifth filmDexter Studiosproduced. Dexter Studios, which made something that was not in the world like the gorilla playing baseball inMr. Goor hell inAlong with the Gods, proved its production capacity beyond technology through the true-story based filmEscape from Mogadishu.Dexter Studiosis at the center of the latest issues in the media industry, such as virtual production technology or metaverse, and is heralding a wide range of performances as a content producer.- How was this year forDexter Studios?= First of all, I would like to express my condolences to all film industry officials suffering from COVID-19, includingDexter Studios. 2021 was a meaningful year forDexter Studios. Marking the 10th anniversary of its foundation amid the rapidly changing market, we&#39;ve spent this year looking back the past 10 years while preparing ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Actor Cho Eunji, who has been wearing various colors on the screen for 22 years, visited the theater with her first feature film as a director. The film &lt;Perhaps Love&gt; depicts the happenings of a novelist, having suffered from a terrible slump, is entangled with complex romance with people around him. Director Cho Eunji, who has been writing as a kind of &#39;breakthrough&#39; since her mid-20s, was recognized for her directing ability by receiving a special award at the 16th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival in 2017 for her short film &lt;2Nights 3Days&gt;. I interviewed Director Cho Eunji about her first feature film as a director.As a director, how does it feel to meet the audience with your first feature film?= I&#39;m scared, nervous, and excited. I wanted to hear that &#39;It&#39;s a good movie.&#39; Perhaps Loveis a story about relationships and growth. After making the movie, I felt that I had grown up a lot through it. Since it was my first time directing a feature film, I did]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Persistent Yearning for New Stories]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Unique and exciting film with the most innovative and unexpected with surprising action we’ve ever encountered in recent years.&amp;#34;Hollywood&amp;#39;s leading producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who produced &amp;lt;Transformer&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;G.I.Joe&amp;gt; series, extolled Director Yoon Jaegeun&amp;#39;s Spiritwalker, and the results of the high praise led to the confirmation of a Hollywood remake. Spiritwalker depicts the journey of a man waking up from another person&amp;#39;s body every 12 hours to find ‘himself’, and it was first praised at overseas film festivals, including the official invitation to the 53rd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival even before its release in Korea. It has also been pre-sold to 107 countries around the world and is waiting for its release.To the high praise toward Spiritwalker, which won favorable comments at home and abroad, Director Yoon Jaegeun explained, &amp;#34;My yearning for a completely new story seems to have worked with the audience around the world.&amp;#34;이미지]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Director Namkoong Sun of Ten Months, A Warm Gaze Toward the Youth without a Compass]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[&#34;My native tongue is a video and a fiction.&#34;When Mirae (Choi Sungeun), a developer in her 20s who shouts to change the world, gets pregnant one day, the world surrounding her changes. The film Ten Monthsfollows the changes experienced by young people in the situation of pregnancy in society and at home and the emotional confusion they face. It contains heavy issues such as career breaks, patriarchy, and abortion, but at the same time, it solves the 10-month journey of pregnancy by mixing rhythmical editing, music, and comic factors. This film is Director Namkoong Sun&#39;s first feature film who has depicted young people in chaos, such as The End of the World, Worst Friends, and Digressions, and Ten Monthswas introduced at the Jeonju International Film Festival, the Seoul Independent Film Festival and Festival du Film Coréen à Paris (FFCP).- I wonder when you first came up with the scenario idea of &lt;Ten Months&gt; or decided to make it int]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chae Kyeongsun, the Production Designer of SQUID GAME, Completed the Desperate World of a Fairy Tale]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“I pursue production design that permeates into the work by discarding my own color.”Squid Gamehas become the best hit in Netflix&#39;s history. The production design, which drew attention from the trailer, is largely responsible for causing its phenomenal responses. Production Designer Chae Kyeongsun introduced a design that highlights the desperate competition for survival with a fairytale-like visual. Props such as robot dolls, dalgona, and sweatsuits made on her fingertips are also supported by the fans crazy about the series. We met Chae Kyeongsun, a production designer who completed the unique world of Squid Game, through a web meeting. (Spoilers are included)- Squid Gameis creating syndrome around the world. How do you feel as a creator?= After working for films, it&#39;s my first time working for a Netflix project, and I poured out all of my heart into it. It was fun to try a new visual method. I am spending every day feeling rewarded for]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lee Sunyoung, the DP of On the Line, Pursued the Thrill of a Crime from a Female POV]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[&#34;I actively utilized the extreme telephoto lenses and camera movements&#34;The protagonist, who was caught up in a crime and lost everything, infiltrates the base of the crime to wipe out the criminal organization. The film &lt;On the Line&gt; draws the audience&#39;s immersion by bringing in a &#39;voice phishing&#39; crime that causes 700 billion won of annual damages. In the film &lt;On the Line&gt;, directed by Kim Gok and Kim Sun, which highlights detailed data investigation and subject consciousness, the cameras move without stopping, adding to the urgency of the situation. Interviewing Lee Sunyoung, who returned to the scene as the leader of the filming department four years after &lt;Eclipse&gt;, we heard about the film &lt;On the Line&gt; and how she led the filming scene as a &#39;female Director of Photography,&#39; who is still rare in the field.- Following &lt;Horror Stories&gt; and &lt;Horror Stories 3&gt;, you worked with Director Kim Gok and Kim Sun again.= Through Shor]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meeting Harry Yoon, a Korean-American Film Editor Performing in Hollywood]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Meeting Harry Yoon, a Korean-American Film Editor Performing in Hollywood&amp;lt;Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings&amp;gt;, a Marvel film that announced the emergence of a new superhero, has proved the power of theaters by making nearly $400 million in profits at the global box office only a month after its release. Thanks to the encouraging achievements of the film, which became the top box office hit in North America this year, Disney pronounced that they would exclusively release all of their remaining new films in theaters this year. &amp;lt;Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings&amp;gt;was completed by Asian creators, including directors and main actors, and the Korean-American film editor Harry Yoon is an indispensable figure when we discuss the vast story and cheerful action of the film. Director Harry Yoon is a film director who has strengthened his career in Hollywood by editing the films &amp;lt;Minari&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;Detroit&amp;gt;, TV series &amp;lt;Euphoria&amp;gt;, as well as e]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lee Woojeong, a Young Director Who Deals with the Story of the Young]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“I hope what happened in the past can be embraced by this movie”사진1The film &lt;SNOWBALL&gt; depicts the time when 18-year-old Kangy, Soyoung, and Aram, who left the boundaries of school and neighborhood, tried to lead their best lives. Based on a full-length novel by Lim Solah, the film is Lee Woojeong&#39;s feature directorial debut. Director Lee Woojeong directed short stories such as &lt;Hanna Song&gt;, &lt;See You Tomorrow&gt;, and &lt;Living in Seoul&gt;, a part of the omnibus feature film &lt;Romance in Seoul&gt;. She also acted in &lt;Dr. Jump&gt; and &lt;A Midday Picnic&gt;. Director Lee Woojeong won awards at the Busan International Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival. Also, she has been invited to various film festivals such as the Muju Film Festival and the Seoul International Women&#39;s Film Festival, etc. We interviewed her to talk about &lt;SNOWBALL&gt;.How did you encounter the novel &lt;SNOWBALL&gt;?The CEO of the production company M]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Heroine of IN FRONT OF YOUR FACEA meeting of legend and legend, director Hong Sang-soo&#39;s &lt;In Front of Your Face&gt;, which was invited to this year&#39;s Cannes Film Festival premiere, looks like a tribute to the legendary female actor Lee Hyeyeoung in the Korean film industry.Lee Hyeyeong is the daughter of Lee Manhee, a legendary director who symbolizes Korean films in the 1960s and 1970s, and a leading actor who led Korean films in the 1980s. She made her musical debut at the age of 19 in 1981 and soon entered the film industry. In her early 20s, she drew attention by showing provocative and disturbing characters, including Hyangsim, a barmaid in Blazing Sun(1985), Eunyoung, a military wife in Winter Wanderer(1986), and Miss Hong in Ticket(1986). Lee Hyeyeong&#39;s intense image was far from female actors with pure and feminine image, and she showed performances that overwhelmed the leading actors with her secular and sensual appearance]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Art Director Kim Taeyoung Draws Isolation in SINKHOLE]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“Art also had to survive and live on just like the disaster-stricken characters”One day, a villa (term used in Korea to describe multiplexes or smaller apartments) suddenly falls into a sinkhole. People who were planning to spend a lazy weekend suddenly get stuck deep underground. They’re people in the lower middle class who only wish to have a place to call their own. Director Kim Jihoon and Art Director Kim Taeyoung who proved their outstanding abilities through the disaster film The Towerjoined hands once again. WhileThe Towerfocused on the disaster itself, Sinkholeis more about pointing the camera towards the feelings of the people in a crisis. The way it shows how universal human emotions arise within a crisis stands out. The film’s mise-en-scène of the sinkhole and the villa that fell into it is outstanding, allowing the viewers to get more absorbed in the stories of the characters. We met with Kim Taeyoung, the art director who designed ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[CEO Kang Yeonkyung of MovieBloc Introduced Blockchain Technology to Movies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“We are ultimately a distribution platform.”MovieBloc is an online streaming platform for independent films and short films where you can pay through virtual money. As a new OTT, the company is trying to differentiate itself by lively curations and events to vote for the winner among movies. MovieBloc recently became a new sponsor of the Asiana International Short Film Festival (the name changed to &#39;GwangHwaMun International Short Film Festival&#39;) and attracted attention from the film industry by serving as an online screening platform for film festivals during the COVID-19 era, including the Seoul Eco Film Festival and the Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival. To hear about the service they offer, I met Kang Yeonkyung, the CEO of MovieBloc, who advocates the first blockchain film platform in Korea.**사진 2**I heard MovieBloc started its service at the end of August 2019.We started beta service with only basic functions such as profile and membership. Since then, ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[HOSTAGE: MISSING CELEBRITY’s Director Pil Gamseong Blurs the Boundary Between Reality and Fiction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“Actor Hwang Jungmin and character Hwang Jungmin created synergy in this story.”The film Hostage: Missing Celebrityis a reality action thriller depicting the unprecedented event that Hwang Jungmin, a famous actor in the movie, is kidnapped in the middle of Korea. Director Pil Gamseong, who had set foot in the film industry as a production team of Director Kim Sungsu&#39;s Musa: The Warrior(2001), finally made his feature debut in 20 years with Hostage: Missing Celebrity, and with the provocative setting that Hwang Jungmin plays Hwang Jungmin, this film is very striking. Director Pil Gamseong brought the actor&#39;s real image into the movie and mixed the boundaries between reality and fiction interestingly. Another point we can enjoy is the clever use of popular words in Hwang Jungmin’s movies and the movies familiar to the audience. I met Director Pil Gamseong who said, “I hope Hostage: Missing celebritywill be a fun and thrilling movie like a roller coaste]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[THE CURSED: DEAD MAN’S PREY by Kim Yongwan, The New Visual Shock in the K-zombie Genre]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“Occult imagination meets Korean subject matter, which is competitive itself”The movie The Cursed: Dead Man’s Preyis the extended version of The Cursedin 3 years, the tvN drama series that advocated a Korean occult and produced huge fans. The movie presents a visual shock with the K-zombie, a new creature called ‘Jae-cha-eui,’ a resurrected corpse: a Korean zombie, showing the evolution of the ‘Universe of the Cursed’ unfolded by Writer Yeon Sangho, with the reunion of Im Jinhee (Uhm Jiwon), a reporter who started her independent media career, and Baek Sojin (Jung Jiso), a methodist who disappeared holding an evil spirit inside her. Above all, expanding the media area from drama to screen is a rare example in the Korean content market. So, I had a chance to interview Director Kim Yongwan, who successfully led the meaningful challenge.Why did you plan the TV series The Cursedinto a film version?Thanks to having established the surreal worldview ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[“Watching Obok’s choice, I’ve also been healed.” Director Kim MijoThe movie &lt;Gull&gt; follows the process of Obok (Jeong Aehwa), who has supported her family by selling fish although she can’t eat any of them. standing on her feet, and making her voice heard amid numerous secondary abuse and violence after being sexually assaulted by Kitaek (Kim Byungchun), the chairman of the market redevelopment committee. The film, which carefully identified issues worth considering with its attractive directing, won the grand prize in the Korean Competition section at the 21st Jeonju International Film Festival. I met director Kim Mijo, who made her feature debut with &lt;Gull&gt; after the short films &lt;Tongue&gt; and &lt;The Disgusting Family&gt;.- I heard you read so many casebooks of sexual violence and the recorded tapes of ‘the victims’ of Japanese military sexual slavery while you were preparing for the move.= Yes, I read a lot of casebooks as well as the memoirs o]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Director Lee Jihyoung & Director Kim Sol of Scattered Night]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[&#34;Although it&#39;s quiet, this film has a lot of elements that make you laugh&#34;Scattered Night, which depicts the story of Sumin, an elementary school kid whose parents are about to divorce, is a film co-directed by Lee Jihyoung and Kim Sol, who majored in directing at the Graduate School in Dankook University.The movie Scattered Nightis about Sumin (Moon Seungah), an elementary school kid whose parents are about to divorce. Like the chilly and dark living room in the broad light of day, the child has no choice but to look at her scattered family and the fragmented hearts. The film, which carefully captures the complex psychology of the main character Sumin and the other characters, won the Grand Prize and the Best Acting Award at the 20th Korean Film Competition. Let&#39;s hear about the movie Scattered Nightfrom the two directors who studied movies together and co-directed the first feature film after majoring in directing in the 7th class at the Graduate School ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[&amp;#34;Director Hong Sangsoo and the first work I worked with him made me feel free.&amp;#34;It deserves to be called the ‘Return of the Legend.’ Actor Lee Hyeyeong is the ‘Face’ of Director Hong Sangsoo&amp;#39;s new film &amp;lt;In Front of Your Face&amp;gt;, which was invited to Cannes Premiere at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival. As the daughter of Lee Manhee, the genius director who introduced a new style to the Korean film industry in the 1960s, films were a natural part of her life. Dreaming of becoming an actor while watching a musical film by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Lee Hyeyeong took the first step in her career as an actor with the musical &amp;lt;The Sound of Music&amp;gt; in 1981. And she immediately became the ‘representative face’ of Korean cinema in the 1980s.Lee Hyeyeong made her film debut with &amp;lt;Mother’s Wedding&amp;gt; in 1982. By 1995, she had appeared in as many as 26 films. Representative Korean directors in the 1980s, including Im Kwontaek, Jung Jiyoung, Jang Sunwoo]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climbing Director Kim Hyemi, Inspires Individuality and Vitality to K-Animation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“The Story about the Other Side of Pregnancy”**사진 캡션**Kim Hyemi, Director of &lt;Climing&gt;, a Mystery Horror AnimationThe feature animation &lt;Climbing&gt; fully raises expectations for domestic creative, adult, and genre animation. It started as the 11th feature Korean Film Academy course project in 2017 and was completed in three and a half years, first recognized at the Korean film festivals. The film won the Korea Cartoon Animation Society Award and Unity Award at the 2020 Bucheon International Animation Festival and the Special Jury Prize at Ulju Mountain Film Festival. In June this year, it was the only Korean film invited to the competition section of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, becoming the talk of the town. It expresses the psychology of women suffering from anxiety about pregnancy and childbirth in various genres such as mystery, horror, thriller, and psychodrama, clearly engraving the theme and personality. Straight from ]]></description>
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