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New York Korean Film Festival this August

The seventh edition of the New York Korean Film Festival is set to run August 22 – 31. Sponsored by KOFIC and The Korea Society, the event will screen more than 15 recent Korean features, of which 14 have been finalized for the line-up.

Highlights include one of the top-grossing Korean films of 2008, "Forever the Moment", a sports-redemption-themed film directed by Yim Soon-rye and starring Moon So-ri and Kim Jung-eun. Other 2008 releases in the line-up are "Hellcats" by Kwon Chil-in, "Once Upon a Time" by Jeong Yong-ki, "Open City" by Lee Sang-gi, "Spare" by Lee Seong-han, and the Korea-Japanese co-production "Virgin Snow" starring Lee Joon-gi and Aoi Miyazaki.

Films in the program from 2007 include such high-profile films as the Chosun-set popular tale, "Hwang Jin Yi", starring Song Hye-kyo, the Kwang-ju-set historical tragedy, May 18th, a Chosun-set tale of high stakes cooking, "Le Grand Chef", and Daniel Henney vehicle and tear-jerker, "My Father".

Other notable films in the program are art-house independent feature "With a Girl of Black Soil" by Jeon Soo-il, innovative horror, "Epitaph" by the JEONG brothers (Jeong Beom-sik, Jeong Sik), "a Love" by _Kwak_Gyeong-taek, and "Going by the Book" by Ra Hee-chan.

Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)

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