Korean Cinema Forum 2011

4th Nov 16:00 @ KCCUK

After the success of last year’s Korean Film Forum where an distinguished group of various film industry professions; Tony Rayns, Simon Ward and Jang Jin discussed the possibly future of the Korean film industry. This year we bring this important debate between key Korean film insiders to the KCCUK to talk about the important issues facing Korean films in a regional and global context. Joining this year’s event is;

Tony Rayns

British born and based film critic, film festival programmer and occasional filmmaker has been writing about film for over forties years. Tony, one of the foremost experts in East Asian cinema, has worked over many varied publications with strong ties to the UK’s premier film magazine, Sight & Sound published by the BFI. He is heavily involved in programming a number of film festival around the world including the London Film Festival and the Dragons & Tigers section of the Vancouver International Film Festival. As well as commentating and exhibiting Tony has also been involved in filmmaking with directing a documentary on Korean filmmaker Jang Sun-woo name The Jang Sun-woo Variations as well as co-writing San Tiao Ren with Cinematographer and director Christopher Doyle.

Kim Han-min

Born at the end of the Sixties in Korea the filmmaker originally graduated with a degree in Business Administration before gaining a masters in film from Dongkuk University. He has a number of award winning short films including Sunflower Blues (1999) and Three Hungry Brothers which won awards at the Mise-en-Scene Short Film Festival, the Asiana International Short Film Festival and the Seoul Digital Film Festival. Following his success he moved on to directing his first feature film, Paradise Murdered in 2007 and then Handphone in 2009. His latest feature which is opening the festival is Arrow The Ultimate Weapon which has become one of Korea’s biggest box office films ever.

Jeon Chan-il

Primarily a Korean based film critic, Jeon Chan-il, was appointed to the position of programmer of World Cinema in Asia’s largest film festival, Busan. He will be visiting the festival to discuss with UK distributors what can be done to help increase the presence of Korean film in the UK.

Dr Choi Jin-hee

A lecturer at King’s College London who specialises in East Asian cinema and the global film industry. She was originally educated at the Seoul National University gaining a BA and MA in Aesthetics before earning two Ph.Ds, one in Philosophy and another in Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in America.