HAF selects two Korean projects
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The eighth edition of the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) 2010 has selected two Korean projects among 25 Asian projects for its upcoming edition, March 22 – 24. Award-winning auteur Lee Yoon-ki and commercially successful director JEON Yeon-soo will present their latest projects to potential investors.
LEE's project is titled "Dear Comrade", a Korea-Japan-Vietnam co-production. It tells the story of a decades-long love between a Vietnamese man and a North Korean woman who first meet when he is sent to Pyeongyang as a student in 1971. Produced by Japan's Espirit Inc. the film is written by LEE and has a budget of US$ 3 million.
JEON's project, produced by Sidus FNH, is titled "Exit to Exist". Based on a best-selling Korean novel titled Shoot Me in the Heart, it is the tale of two young men who meet in a mental hospital – one is locked up because he is crazy, the other going crazy because he is locked up. Produced by Jupiter Film and Sidus FNH, the film has a budget of US$ 5 million with 80% already secured.
Previous Korean participants at HAF have included Bong Joon-ho with "Mother - 2009" and Na Hong-jin with upcoming thriller "The Yellow Sea". Director LEE has won acclaim for several features including his debut "This Charming Girl" (2005), and Berlin selections "Ad-Lib Night" (2006) and "My Dear Enemy" (2008). JEON has directed a number of popular films including "Le Grand Chef" (2007) and "Portrait of a Beauty" (2008).
Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)
LEE's project is titled "Dear Comrade", a Korea-Japan-Vietnam co-production. It tells the story of a decades-long love between a Vietnamese man and a North Korean woman who first meet when he is sent to Pyeongyang as a student in 1971. Produced by Japan's Espirit Inc. the film is written by LEE and has a budget of US$ 3 million.
JEON's project, produced by Sidus FNH, is titled "Exit to Exist". Based on a best-selling Korean novel titled Shoot Me in the Heart, it is the tale of two young men who meet in a mental hospital – one is locked up because he is crazy, the other going crazy because he is locked up. Produced by Jupiter Film and Sidus FNH, the film has a budget of US$ 5 million with 80% already secured.
Previous Korean participants at HAF have included Bong Joon-ho with "Mother - 2009" and Na Hong-jin with upcoming thriller "The Yellow Sea". Director LEE has won acclaim for several features including his debut "This Charming Girl" (2005), and Berlin selections "Ad-Lib Night" (2006) and "My Dear Enemy" (2008). JEON has directed a number of popular films including "Le Grand Chef" (2007) and "Portrait of a Beauty" (2008).
Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)
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