Jang Jae-hyun
Jang Jae-hyun | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
| Alma mater | Sungkyunkwan University Korea National University of Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Jang Jae-hyeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chang Chaehyŏn |
Jang Jae-hyun (born 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Jang served as an assistant director on the blockbuster period drama Masquerade (2012) before breaking out with the short 12th Assistant Deacon (2014) which won Best Film in The Extreme Nightmare section at the 13th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, and Best Director Award (Korean Competition For Shorts) at the 15th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2014. Based on the award-winning short, he made his first feature film The Priests (2015) - a supernatural mystery thriller, which was a hit with more than 5.4 million admissions. Jang said "I got a weird feeling when I saw a priest waiting anxiously for someone on the other side of a fast food restaurant window. The Priests started then."[1][2][3][4]
Filmography
- Maley from India (short film, 2009) - director
- Bus (short film, 2010) - director
- Themselves (2011) - assistant director, script editor
- S.I.U. (2011) - assistant director
- Masquerade (2012) - assistant director, actor
- 12th Assistant Deacon (short film, 2014) - director, screenwriter
- The Priests (2015) - director, screenwriter
- House of the Disappeared (2017) - screenwriter
Awards
- 2014 15th Jeonju International Film Festival: Best Director Award (12th Assistant Deacon)
- 2016 16th Director's Cut Awards: Best New Director (The Priests)[5]
References
- ^ "JANG Jae-hyun". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ^ Conran, Pierce (10 November 2015). "The Priests". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ^ "Kang Dong-won and Kim Yoon-seok's The Priests". Hancinema. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ^ Conran, Pierce (8 December 2015). "THE PRIESTS Tops November Releases". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ^ Conran, Pierce (11 August 2016). "NA Hong-jin Nabs Best Director from Director's Cut Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
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