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 Je-Kyu
Kang
He was born in Korea in 1962, graduated from Chung-Ang University
with Film.
Kang Je-Gyu took his first step into the cinematic world as
a screenwriter for Who Saw the Dragon's Toenails' and The Rules
of the Game. He has since taken directing and producing responsibilities
in a number of blockbuster films to become one of Korea's leading
filmmakers.
The Ginko Bed
as his director debut introduced a new wrinkle to the fantasy
genre in Korea by exploring the reaches beyond regular time
and space. The film attracted 1.5 million spectators and received
critical accolades for its distinctive style.
Shiri garnered even more sensational responses
in its presentation of Korea's political division in a Post-Cold
War action spy drama. It went a step further by introducing
a romantic twist. The film attracted 5.97 million spectators
from all over the country to establish a new attendance record.
The more important feat, outside of beating Titanic at the local
box-office, is that Shiri became the leading exemplar of ÇÑ·ù
("hanryu" the Korean New Wave) that revealed the untapped
potential of a Korean blockbuster film to excel in the overseas
market, especially in Asia and in particular, Japan. The film
even created "the Shiri Syndrome" in Asia as it showcased
the rise of Korean cinema's reputation overseas.
With Tae Guk Gi, Kang creates
a new genre: a humanistic war spectacle of epic proportions.
This film centers on an historical tragedy that pits two brothers
in the midst of a chaotic civil war where their love for each
other is the only uplifting spirit that can help overcome the
horrors that they face and are required to perform as drafted
soldiers.
Tae Guk Gi established yet another
attendance record in Korea with 11 million attendees. The film
captured the hearts and minds of the Korean people who welcomed
his interpretation of the Korean War in the most honest and
loving manner possible. We are sure that Tae Guk
Gi will also capture the hearts and minds of the
rest of the world.
Now, his name alone is a guarantor of box-office success both
at home and abroad. We are confident that Kang's stated Korean
concerns are in fact universal concerns that will be welcomed
by audiences all around the world. |
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 Myung-Se
Lee
He was born in 1957, Myung-Se Lee studied film at the Seoul
Institute of the Arts.
After graduation in 1979, Lee worked on numerous films including
Our Joyful Young Days (Dir. Changho Bae) as an assistant director.
His first film Gagman is regarded as ?one of the most distinct
debut films in movie history (Tony Rayns)'. The box office hit,
My Love, My Bridge is about a newly-wed
couple who is not yet used to living together and it is also
about laughs and sorrows of petit bourgeois.
His unique styles - theatrical set, cartoon-like images, homage
to Hollywood classics, and framing with windows - brought a
new wave to the narrative dominated Korean cinemas. Inside the
set, he crosses over the fantasy and the reality and this was
developed as the 'Myung-Se Lee style' through his movies.
His sixth film Nowhere to Hide escapes
the set and follows a tight chase between detective and criminal.
It was not only a domestic success but also made his name internationally
renowned. Both audiences and critics were fascinated by the
romantic murder scene and the dueling scene, which looked like
waltzes being danced.
After Nowhere to Hide, it was proposed
that he work in Hollywood, but after four years in the States,
he decided to make Duelist as his
comeback film in Korea tuning up his own style of martial arts
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 Sun-Tae
Hwang
HWANG studied mass communication at Sogang University.
After working in films and videos a few years, he decided to
study further as a writer and director at the Academy of Art
University, San Francisco. Since then, HWANG has been successfully
making projects focused on Asian immigrant issues.
His previous work, AMERICAN BEAUTIES went film festival circuit
including the best documentary prize at the 2005 LA International
Student Film Festival. He is the director of SNAPDRAGON (2005).
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 Won
Jung
JUNG lives by one thought, to be a successful filmmaker, he
must keep his responsibilities focused to the audiences, on
the people who work together and on himself, try to make them
all happy by his work. It is these ideals that have allowed
JUNG to receive some great professional offers from producers
and directors in the feature film and music video industry.
JUNG is currently working for various projects, including feature
films, music videos as a main key crew member(mainly D.P. position),
and he is developing and writing a feature film script about
Korean War. He is the director of COMPANION (2000). |
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 Cheryl
Park
PARK received her BA in Film Studies at U.C Berkeley and her
MFA in Film, Video and New Media Studies at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently developing a feature
project concerning contemporary practices of leadership with
the renowned civil rights activist, Reverend James Bevel. She
is the director of PILOTS ARE BADASS (2002). |
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 Grace
Su
Grace SU launched her film/video production career through the
Film and Digital Media Production program for Undergraduates
at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She went on to further her film studies and production work
at the U.C, Los Angeles in winter 2005.
During this time, she was selected to make a 5-minute piece
for Visual Communications¡¯ Armed with a Camera Fellowship in
which FUTURE ROCKSTARS OF AMERICA was given birth.
FUTURE ROCKSTARS OF AMERICA (2005) is SU¡¯s directorial debut
to the film festival circuit. Grace SU is currently finishing
her last term at the U.C Santa Cruz. |
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 Henry
J. Kim
KIM was born 1982 in SF. Henry has followed the path of a true
independent filmmaker, self taught in every way, and never once
spends $40K on a film education that could have been better
spent making a feature film. He is currently an executive producer
of EMPYREAN MEDIA. The goal is to make feature films and unite
independent filmmakers from around the world to share resources,
and their love for filmmaking as an art and passion, not just
a business. He is the producer of SHIMTUH (2005) and MIDNIGHT
IN A PERFECT WORLD (2005). |
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 Daniel
Lee
LEE was born in 84 in Baltimore, MD. He is always walking around
looking for self interest in the radical and bizarre for excitement.
He moved to SF to attend the Academy of Art University. He is
currently a senior. He has been inspired the most by Ki-Duk
KIM, Ingmar BERGMAN, David LYNCH, Tsukamoto SHINYA, Mike TAKASHI,
and Wong Far WAI. He is the director of MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT
WORLD (2005). |
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 Helie
Lee
In 1996, Helie Lee published her first novel, Still Life with
Rice, followed by the In The Absence of Sun (2000), which chronicled
the memoirs of her family's life in North Korea. As a bestselling
author, Lee has been featured in magazines like People, Time
and Life, as well as The Los Angeles Times, CNN, NPR and "Oprah."
Her documentary, Macho Like Me, is currently a work-in-progress
and documents her six and half month experience living as a
man. Helie Lee will show her work in progress and will be available
for questions and answers at this session. |
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| Actors: |
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 Yei-ryun
Cha
She was born in 1985. She's been modeling for various TV commercials.
She says she's the biggest horror movie fan and couldn't be
happier when she was cast for her role in the film. She's fragilely
beautiful, but very strong-minded. Movie fans will surely witness
her charm melted into her character.
Voice
is her film debut. She plays the character, Cho-ah, the high
school student who can hear voices of the dead
TV Commercials - LG Telecom, Toshiba, Misha Music Video - Still
in Love by Jang-hyuk Cho |
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 Young-Lan
Lee - Actress
and Professor
Dr. Young-Lan Lee is Associate Professor at Department of Theatre
and Film in Kyunghee University in Korea. She has been directing
various feminist performative events as well as environmental
theatres in various performing arts festivals in Korea.
She has been also acting in few films and TV productions as
well as theatres. Her recent films include Sara
Jeanne (2004) and TaeGukGi: The Brotherhood
of War (2004).
Her acting at Sara Jeanne received
Critic's Special Mention at the 55th Berlin International Film
Festival in 2005. |
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| Producers: |
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 Choon-Yun
Lee
LEE is CEO of Cine 2000, one of the biggest film productions
in Korea. He has produced a number of hit films, including Whispering
Corridors(1998), Memento Mori
(1999), Interview (2000), Mayonnaise
(2001), Surprise (2002), Addiction
(2002), Wishing Stairs (2003),
Taekwonboys (2004), Voice
(2005), as well as many other throughout the 1980¡¯s
For past 8years, LEE has been producing Girl¡¯s High School Horror
series. He says that although the main characters change in
every girl¡¯s high school ghost story series, the ¡°real protagonist¡±
is identified as the series release. |
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 Hana
Lee
LEE is currently working at MK Pictures, Inc. as a producer.
After several years of work in television production, LEE joined
Kang JeGyu Film, Inc. as a producer. She produced TaeGukGi:
The Brotherhood of War (2004).
Her works include A Fox Family(2005) and Little
Leaf (2008).
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 Ted
Kim
KIM is currently Executive Vice President and head of CJ Entertainment
America.
CJ Entertainment is a vertically integrated media company active
in film, television, music and electronic media.
Prior to joining CJ Entertainment, KIM was an attorney with
over thirteen years of experience as a key legal and financial
strategist for clients in media and technology. KIM has represented
and provided legal services for a variety of independent films
as well as producers, actors, writers, directors, and international
producers and distributors. |
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 Hyangjin
Lee
Dr. Hyangjin Lee is Lecturer at the University of Sheffield,
UK. She has written books and articles about Korean films and
films more generally.
Her recent works include ¡®Chunhyang in Seoul and Cannes:
Marketing an Old Tradition in New Korean Cinema¡¯ (2005), ¡®State
and Cinema in North Korea: From Marxism to Our Style Socialism¡¯
(2005), ¡®Let Me Entertain You: The Identity Politics of Contemporary
Korean Cinema,¡¯ ¡®Cinema and Construction of Identity in Contemporary
Korea: War and Division¡¯ (2001), and Contemporary Korean
Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics (2000). |
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 Aaron
Magnan-Park
Dr. Aaron Magnan-Park is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Film, Television, and Theatre at University of Notre Dame
in Indiana.
He specializes in pan-Asian cinema with an emphasis on transnationalculture.
His recent works include "Peppermint Candy:The Will Not
to Forget" (2005) in the anthology New Korean Cinema, and
"Hong Kong Action Cinema's Transnational Engagement: HK
as the Cine-Logocentric Nexus in the Francophone World"
(forthcoming) in the anthology Chinese Connections.
His current projects include"En-Gendering Re-Gendered Romance
of Multiple Lives: Reincarnation in Bungee Jumping on Their
Own," "Failan and the Rediscovery of Jeong in Contemporary
Korean Cinema," and "The Mudang Auteur: The Films
of Dai Sil Kim-Gibson." |
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 Kyu
Hyun Kim
Dr. Kyu Hyun KIM is Associate Professor of History at the University
of California in Davis.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His interests
include early modern and modern Japanese history, colonial modernity
in East Asia, and Korean and Japanese cinema. |
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 Jenny
Kwok Wah Lau
Dr. Jenny Lau is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema
at San Francisco State University.
She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her research
focuses on Pan Chinese Cinema, Post Colonial Cinema, and Post
Modern Discourse. Her published works include a book entitled
Multiple modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural
East Asia. |
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| Journalist: |
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 K.
W. Lee
LEE has worked a reporter, an editor, and a publisher. He has
had a 45-year-career with dailies in Tennessee, West Virginia
and California ? much of the last two decades with The Sacramento
Union. In 1979, LEE founded the first national English-language
Korean American newspaper, Koreatown Weekly. LEE is the founding
president of the Korean American Journalists Association. He
is working on two book projects: Lonesome Journey: the Korean
American Century - A Korean Oral History and Witnessing a Defining
Moment for Korean American Diaspora: Children of Sa-I-Gu (April
29, 1992) Remember. |
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