Calling All Korean & Korean American Filmmakers

The excellent feature "The Motel" by Korean American filmmaker Michael Kang, a former Sundance Filmmakers Lab fellow.

Today, the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) announced the launch of a brand new program to nurture and encourage emerging Korean American/Korean filmmakers to make films! The KOFIC Filmmakers Development Lab, modeled after other filmmaker labs like the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, is being launched in conjunction with the University of Hawaii's Academy for Creative Media (ACM).

Lab fellows will be paired with industry mentors in a weeklong intensive Lab that will take place in Hawaii this September, with the goal of developing completed scripts. Then fellows will get to go to the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea (the preeminent film festival in Asia) in October to schmooze for financing and futher collaboration on development.

KOFIC chair An Cheong Sook hopes to help these filmmakers to "establish markets and audiences on both continents," and ACM director Chris Lee expressed his excitement about the partnership: "It accentuates the tremendous growth of the Academy and its now global outreach. We look forward to a long and prosperous association."

Qualified filmmakers (director-screenwriters) must be fluent in English, of Korean descent, a resident of Korea or the US, and have written and directed at least one short or feature film. Click here for more info on how to apply. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2006.

>> Korean Film Council Launches Innovative New Filmmakers Development Lab inAssociation With the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaii [PR Newswire, 4/21/06]
>> KOFIC Filmmakers Development Lab 2006 Application
>> UH Academy for Creative Media

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