Jeon Kyu-hwan (born 1965) is a South Korean film director and
screenwriter. Besides being the first Korean film to win the 2012
Queer Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, The Weight
(2012) also won various awards at film festivals, including Best
Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Silver
Peacock Award for best director at the 43rd International Film
Festival of India in 2012.Jeon started his career in a talent
management company as a manager for actors such as Cho Jae-hyun and
Sol Kyung-gu, before making his directorial feature debut with Mozart
Town (2008), followed by Animal Town (2009) and Dance Town (2010).
These films formed the 'town trilogy' that shed light on the scars
that city leaves on the people living in it and vice versa.In From
Seoul to Varanasi (2011), he experimented with melodrama genre and
shot the film in India after being fascinated by the country when he
was there to attend a film festival.The Weight (2012), about a
hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister, won the 2012 Queer
Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture
theme" at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. It is also the
first Korean film to win the prize.
screenwriter. Besides being the first Korean film to win the 2012
Queer Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, The Weight
(2012) also won various awards at film festivals, including Best
Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Silver
Peacock Award for best director at the 43rd International Film
Festival of India in 2012.Jeon started his career in a talent
management company as a manager for actors such as Cho Jae-hyun and
Sol Kyung-gu, before making his directorial feature debut with Mozart
Town (2008), followed by Animal Town (2009) and Dance Town (2010).
These films formed the 'town trilogy' that shed light on the scars
that city leaves on the people living in it and vice versa.In From
Seoul to Varanasi (2011), he experimented with melodrama genre and
shot the film in India after being fascinated by the country when he
was there to attend a film festival.The Weight (2012), about a
hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister, won the 2012 Queer
Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture
theme" at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. It is also the
first Korean film to win the prize.
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