Jeon Kyu-hwan

Jeon Kyu-hwan (born 1965) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Besides being the first Korean film to win the 2012 Queer Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, The Weight (2012) also won various awards at film festivals, including Best Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Silver Peacock Award for best director at the 43rd International Film Festival of India in 2012.[1][2]

In this Korean name, the family name is Jeon.
Jeon Kyu-hwan
Born1965 (age 55–56)
South Korea
OccupationFilm director
screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationJeon Gyu-hwan
McCune–ReischauerChŏn Kyu-hwan

Career

Jeon started his career in a talent management company as a manager for actors such as Cho Jae-hyun and Sol Kyung-gu, before making his directorial feature debut with Mozart Town (2008), followed by Animal Town (2009) and Dance Town (2010). These films formed the 'town trilogy' that shed light on the scars that city leaves on the people living in it and vice versa.[3][4]

In From Seoul to Varanasi (2011), he experimented with melodrama genre and shot the film in India after being fascinated by the country when he was there to attend a film festival.

The Weight (2012), about a hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister, won the 2012 Queer Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture theme" at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. It is also the first Korean film to win the prize.[5][6]

Kyu-hwan being felicitated at IFFI (2015)

Filmography
  • Mozart Town (2008)
  • Animal Town (2009)
  • Dance Town (2010)
  • From Seoul to Varanasi (2011)
  • 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (collection of one-minute shorts created by 60 filmmakers)
  • The Weight (2012)
  • My Boy (2013)[7]
  • Angry Painter (2015)

Awards

References
  1. Conran, Pierce (28 November 2012). "THE WEIGHT Picks Up Best Director at Black Nights Film Festival". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  2. Conran, Pierce (4 December 2012). "JEON Kyu-hwan Triumphs Again". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  3. "JEON Kyu-hwan". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  4. Lee, Yong-cheol (8 September 2011). "Searching for new cinema". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  5. "Queer Lion 2012 goes to the extreme film The Weight". Venice Days. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  6. Suk, Monica (12 September 2012). "Award-winning Korean film The Weight goes to Busan Int'l Film Festival". 10Asia. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  7. Kang, Myoung-seok; Choi, Ji-eun (8 November 2012). "The Weight director Jeon Kyu-hwan to Present New Humandrama Pic Next Year". 10Asia. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
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