Jang Jae-hyun (born 1981) is a South Korean film director and
screenwriter. After graduating from Sungkyunkwan University's
Department of Film, he graduated from the Department of Film at
Hanyejong Film Institute. 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."
screenwriter. After graduating from Sungkyunkwan University's
Department of Film, he graduated from the Department of Film at
Hanyejong Film Institute. 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."
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