Joint Korean-American Movie "Never Forever" to Appear at Sundance Film Festival
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The film "Never Forever", a joint Korean-American production, will compete against other American independent films in the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, which will be held in Park City, Utah from January 18 through 28 next year.
It is part of the American competition section, which introduces audiences to new dramatic and documentary films from American filmmakers.
Each year, 16 new films are selected in this section to compete against each other. Many outstanding films in recent years, including "Memento", "Reservoir Dogs", and "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", have been picked out from this section.
"Never Forever" is a joint product of "Now Film" in Korea, which planned the film, with "VOX3" in the United States, which did the actual production. In charge was a rising Korean movie director, Gina Kim.
The story centers on a secretive and soulful love story between a Korean man and a married American woman. The lead male role in the movie is played by Korean actor Ha Jung-woo, and the lead female role is performed by the well known American actress Vera Farmiga.
Farmiga recently achieved stardom with her performance in the Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" (2006). She also received a Best Actress award from the LA Film Critics Association Awards in 2005 due to her superb performance in the movie "Down to the Bone". In the same year, Farmiga was ranked second by Newsweek's pick of the five best actresses.
The film "Driving With My Wife's Lover", directed by another promising South Korean movie director, Kim Tae-sik, will also be presented at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Competition section.
+ Gina Kim: The director, Gina Kim, currently teaches film production and film studies classes at the Department of Visual and Environment Studies (VES) at Harvard University. She was promised a financial support of 10,000 dollars from the film study center at Harvard in 2005. She has already received recognition from the movie critics with "Invisible Light" (2003) and "Gina Kim's Video Diary" (2002).
By Lee Rhai-kyung
It is part of the American competition section, which introduces audiences to new dramatic and documentary films from American filmmakers.
Each year, 16 new films are selected in this section to compete against each other. Many outstanding films in recent years, including "Memento", "Reservoir Dogs", and "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", have been picked out from this section.
"Never Forever" is a joint product of "Now Film" in Korea, which planned the film, with "VOX3" in the United States, which did the actual production. In charge was a rising Korean movie director, Gina Kim.
The story centers on a secretive and soulful love story between a Korean man and a married American woman. The lead male role in the movie is played by Korean actor Ha Jung-woo, and the lead female role is performed by the well known American actress Vera Farmiga.
Farmiga recently achieved stardom with her performance in the Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" (2006). She also received a Best Actress award from the LA Film Critics Association Awards in 2005 due to her superb performance in the movie "Down to the Bone". In the same year, Farmiga was ranked second by Newsweek's pick of the five best actresses.
The film "Driving With My Wife's Lover", directed by another promising South Korean movie director, Kim Tae-sik, will also be presented at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Competition section.
+ Gina Kim: The director, Gina Kim, currently teaches film production and film studies classes at the Department of Visual and Environment Studies (VES) at Harvard University. She was promised a financial support of 10,000 dollars from the film study center at Harvard in 2005. She has already received recognition from the movie critics with "Invisible Light" (2003) and "Gina Kim's Video Diary" (2002).
By Lee Rhai-kyung
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