Ahn Gooc-jin (born 1980), is a South Korean film director and
screenwriter. Ahn's directorial feature debut Alice in Earnestland
(2015) has won various awards, including New Talent Award at the 39th
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Best Screenplay at the 52nd Baeksang
Arts Awards and Best Independent Film Director at the 16th Director's
Cut Awards.Born in 1980, Ahn, after graduating from the theater and
film department in Kyung Hee University, studied directing in the
Korean Academy of Film Arts. His graduation short film, Stop by My
House (2008) was screened at Buchon International Fantastic Film
Festival and Seoul Independent Film Festival, and won the runner-up
prize at the University Film Festival of Korea. Another short, Double
Clutch (2010) was invited to both Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival
and Hong Kong Short Film Festival, and won the Grand Prize in the
Short Film section at the 2011 Jeonju International Film
Festival.Ahn's directorial feature début Alice in Earnestland is a
dark drama with surreal comical overtones that falls somewhere between
Park Chan-wook's The Vengeance Trilogy and Korean indie social dramas
on the style spectrum. The film premiered at the 2015 Jeonju
International Film Festival, where it picked up the Grand Prize in the
Korean Film Competition.Ahn had his TV debut in 2018 through the Drama
Stage episode All About My Rival in Love.
screenwriter. Ahn's directorial feature debut Alice in Earnestland
(2015) has won various awards, including New Talent Award at the 39th
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Best Screenplay at the 52nd Baeksang
Arts Awards and Best Independent Film Director at the 16th Director's
Cut Awards.Born in 1980, Ahn, after graduating from the theater and
film department in Kyung Hee University, studied directing in the
Korean Academy of Film Arts. His graduation short film, Stop by My
House (2008) was screened at Buchon International Fantastic Film
Festival and Seoul Independent Film Festival, and won the runner-up
prize at the University Film Festival of Korea. Another short, Double
Clutch (2010) was invited to both Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival
and Hong Kong Short Film Festival, and won the Grand Prize in the
Short Film section at the 2011 Jeonju International Film
Festival.Ahn's directorial feature début Alice in Earnestland is a
dark drama with surreal comical overtones that falls somewhere between
Park Chan-wook's The Vengeance Trilogy and Korean indie social dramas
on the style spectrum. The film premiered at the 2015 Jeonju
International Film Festival, where it picked up the Grand Prize in the
Korean Film Competition.Ahn had his TV debut in 2018 through the Drama
Stage episode All About My Rival in Love.
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