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Kwak Sin-ae. Kwak Sin-ae (born 23 October 1968) is a South Korean film producer who is the CEO of the Seoul-based Barunson Entertainment & Arts Corporation (Barunson E&A), best known as a producer of the 2019 film Parasite. [1] [2] She and Bong Joon-ho won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards [3] for Parasite, which ...
Kwak Sin-ae is a Korean filmmaker who won an Oscar for producing Parasite (2019), a dark comedy thriller about a poor family who infiltrates a wealthy household. She is also known for other films such as RV: Resurrected Victims (2017) and Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016).
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Nov 28, 2019 · Kwak Sin Ae is the CEO of Barunson E&A and the producer of Bong Joon Ho's Palme d'Or winner Parasite. She shares her film influences, career highlights and personal interests in this interview.
Dec 2, 2019 · Kwak Sin Ae is the producer of Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or winner and awards contender Parasite and is CEO at Seoul-based Barunson Entertainment & Arts Corporation, better known as Barunson E&A. Originally from Busan, she worked in publishing before starting in the film industry as a journalist for magazine Kino in 1994 and then moving into ...
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- The Korean Auteur Generation
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Things were very different for foreign language films at the start of Yang’s multi-decade career. When she arrived in Hollywood in the ’80s, Asian-language films, in particular, weren’t even considered a possibility for mainstream wide release. “They would be marketed in a different way. It was all about getting the Asian audience out, along with t...
While Lee was stringing together a run of multilingual epics, a new generation of Korean filmmakers was in the midst of its own golden age. Emboldened by the country’s expanding democratic rights and flush with cash from chaebols—large family-run conglomerates—a group of auteurs led by the trio Bong Joon-Ho, Kim Ji-woon and Park Chan-wook rose in t...
At the same time, American audiences were also seeing more faces of color on their screens thanks to the erosion of traditional gatekeepers in film and television. In 2015 and 2016, #OscarsSoWhite exploded on Twitter after two consecutive years of all-white acting nominees, leading the Academy to announce an initiative to double their number of fem...
In May, Parasite opened at Cannes to an eight-minute standing ovation, eventually winning the festival’s top prize. In October, the film opened in the U.S.—and thanks to rapturous reviews, word-of-mouth campaigns that included the efforts of Gold House—an Asian American organization that had formed in 2018 to boost Crazy Rich Asians at the box offi...
But Parasite’s best picture win does not guarantee lasting change. The Korean film industry has recently become stagnant—with admissionsplateauing since 2013—and top-heavy, with many blockbusters taking up an increasing amount of space at theaters. (Last year, a Korean Film Council study said that on any given day, 67.5% of all screenings would be ...
KWAK Sin-ae, born in 1968, started her career as a film journalist for the magazine KINO, but it is in 1999 that she joined the film industry, as a promotion coordinator for the critically acclaimed (1999) by JUNG Ji-woo, her husband. She then worked as the marketing manager of film production company LJ Films for most of the 2000s, handling the promotion of works as diverse as KIM Ki-duk’s ...
Feb 10, 2020 · Backstage with producer Kwak Sin Ae, co-screenwriter Han Jin Won, and translator Sharon Choi, Bong said in English, “It’s really f—ing crazy!” “I’m just a very strange person,” Bong ...
