The 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival Presents
“Focus on Korean Cinema” Series;
South Korean Filmmaker PARK Ki-yong to Explore
Challenges for Film Students at “Training for a Global Industry” Seminar
The 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival will present “Focus on Korean Cinema”, a programme of new and classic films from one of the world’s most dynamic centres of popular and art-house films. The HKIFF also will host a seminar with South Korean filmmaker PARK Ki-yong on the challenges facing the global film industry.
The “Focus on Korean Cinema” series includes: the Asian Premiere of The Bacchus Lady (2016) by director E J-yong, about a 65-year-old woman who sells sexual favors to old men; KWON Oh-kwang’s debut feature, Collective Invention (2015), an outrageously hilarious satire on media, pop culture, corruption and corporate greed; director WOO Min-ho’s Inside Men (2015), a slick thriller about corrupt politicians, with international superstar LEE Byung-hun; and renowned filmmaker IM Kwon-taek’s classic The Surrogate Woman (1987), a story of forbidden love starring KANG Soo-yeon, who won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival. Directors and casts of The Bacchus Lady and Collective Invention will attend the screenings.
The HKIFF also will host a film seminar, “Training for a Global Industry”. South Korea’s Dankook University, led by the Busan International Film Festival’s co-founder KIM Dong-ho, prepares its students for the international film industry through co-productions with Japan, China and Australia. PARK Ki-yong, a leading filmmaker of the new Korean cinema, and Roger GARCIA, executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, will discuss the challenges for film students in a rapidly changing and increasingly globalised industry. The invitation-only event will take place on 24 March at 4 p.m. at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.