The National Korean Film Council and the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa will host the second international Filmmaker’s Development Lab Aug. 26 through Sept. 2 in Makaha. Five emerging filmmakers of Korean descent were
The National Korean Film Council and the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa will host the second international Filmmaker’s Development Lab Aug. 26 through Sept. 2 in Makaha.
Five emerging filmmakers of Korean descent were selected as fellows for their scripts, which were submitted through an international competition.
The fellows will be matched with mentors from the film industry in Korea and the United States. The teams will spend a week in Makaha in one-on-one sessions developing their scripts through the lab.
The five fellows selected to participate in the 2007 lab have already produced films that have won multiple awards at festivals and have been nationally televised. They include Nathan Adolfson, Christina Choe, Jeyun Choi, Samuel Kiehoon Lee and Gene Rhee.
A $40,000 award will go to the top script. In addition, final projects will be presented to producers, financiers and production companies at the Independent Feature Film Market in New York in September and at the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea in October.
Lab mentors also plan to present a free class for the public on the Korean film industry Aug. 31, at 2:30 p.m., in Crawford Hall on the Manoa Campus.
“Following the tremendous success of last year’s inaugural Filmmaker’s Development Lab, all of us at (Academy for Creative Media) are thrilled and honored to continue our association with the Korean Film Council and this year’s Filmmaker’s Development Lab,” Chris Lee, academy director, said in a prepared statement.
Mentors for the 2007 lab include Korean producers Jonathan Kim (“Silmido,” “Lies”) and Jooick Lee (“Battle of Wits,” “Seven Swords”), U.S. producer Peggy Rajski (“Home for the Holidays” and “The Grifters”), talent agency head Brant Rose, and American Film Institute Senior Lecturer Barry Sabbath. Kim and Sabbath are returning mentors from the first Filmmaker’s Development Lab.
The lab is fully funded by the National Korean Film Council, and held in partnership with the Academy for Creative Media, the Independent Film Project in New York and the Center for Asian American Media in San Francisco.
For more information, visit http://fdl.kofic.or.kr/ or www.hawaii.edu/acm.
