Wisconsin Film Fest Focuses on Korea
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The 11th Wisconsin Film Festival, held annually at the University of Wisconsin in the U.S., presents a 'Focus on South Korea' for its 2009 edition running April 2 – 5. Five critically acclaimed Korean features will screen during the event along with one Canadian-Korean short film.
Indie favorite "Daytime Drinking" by Noh Young-seok will screen, continuing its tour of international festivals after gaining attention at Jeonju, Busan and Toronto. Cannes winner "Secret Sunshine" by Lee Chang-dong, which won actress Jeon Do-yeon a host of awards, was also selected.
Rounding out the focus is Korean-American director Kim So-yong's second feature "Treeless Mountain", which won best film at Dubai Int'l Film Fest, and was the director's first shot entirely in Korea; Han Jae-rim's sophomore effort, comic-drama "The Show Must Go on", starring Song Kang-ho as a middling gangster; and Chinese-Korean director Zhang Lu's second feature "Grain in Ear", which won the New Currents award at Pusan.
Kai's Place, a short film by Canadian-Korean filmmaker Albert SHIN, will also screen in the focus. It tells the story of a young Westerner teaching English in Korea, who finds himself feeling lost and isolated in his urban surroundings.
Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)
Indie favorite "Daytime Drinking" by Noh Young-seok will screen, continuing its tour of international festivals after gaining attention at Jeonju, Busan and Toronto. Cannes winner "Secret Sunshine" by Lee Chang-dong, which won actress Jeon Do-yeon a host of awards, was also selected.
Rounding out the focus is Korean-American director Kim So-yong's second feature "Treeless Mountain", which won best film at Dubai Int'l Film Fest, and was the director's first shot entirely in Korea; Han Jae-rim's sophomore effort, comic-drama "The Show Must Go on", starring Song Kang-ho as a middling gangster; and Chinese-Korean director Zhang Lu's second feature "Grain in Ear", which won the New Currents award at Pusan.
Kai's Place, a short film by Canadian-Korean filmmaker Albert SHIN, will also screen in the focus. It tells the story of a young Westerner teaching English in Korea, who finds himself feeling lost and isolated in his urban surroundings.
Nigel D'Sa (KOFIC)
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