Lee Kwang-mo
Lee Kwang-mo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 January 1961 |
| Alma mater | Korea University University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation(s) | Executive producer,film director |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이광모 |
| Revised Romanization | I Gwang-mo |
| McCune–Reischauer | I Kwang-mo |
Lee Kwang-mo(born 28 January 1961) is a South Korean executive producer andfilm director.He is best known for his first featureSpring in My Hometown(1998) which won numerous awards.[1][2][3]
Early life
[edit]On January 28, 1961, Lee was born inSouth Korea.
Career
[edit]Lee majored in English at theKorea Universityand graduated from theUniversity of California, Los Angelesin film and television studies in 1988. He has written many shorts and feature screenplays, and lectures at universities and film schools.[4][5][6]
He wrote and directed his first featureSpring in My Hometown(1998) which took 13 years to make. He wrote the screenplay in memory of his father who died while he was studying in the U.S. The script won the first prize in the 1995 Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Competition. The film won numerous awards and was the most critically acclaimed film of the year. It also topped most of the film critics' lists of the year's best features.
Filmography
[edit]- Spring in My Hometown(1998)
Awards
[edit]- 1998Tokyo International Film Festival:Gold Prize for New directors (Spring in My Hometown)[1]
- 1998Thessaloniki Film Festival:Special Artistic Achievement (Spring in My Hometown)
- 1998Pusan International Film Festival:FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention (Spring in My Hometown)
- 1999Korean Association of Film Critics Awards:Best Director (Spring in My Hometown)
- 1999Kerala International Film Festival:Special Jury Prize (Spring in My Hometown)
- 1999Fribourg International Film Festival:Don Quixote Award (Spring in My Hometown)
- 1999 35thBaeksang Arts Awards:Best New Director (Spring in My Hometown)[7]
- 1999 7thChunsa Film Art Awards:Best Planning/Producer (Spring in My Hometown)
- 1999 36thGrand Bell Awards:Best Director (Spring in My Hometown)
References
[edit]- ^ab"Spring in My Hometown - Awards".IMDb.Retrieved2 October2018.
- ^Stratton, David (18 May 1998)."Film Review: Spring in My Hometown".Variety.Retrieved2 October2018.
- ^Bourne, Christopher (4 November 2011)."Review: Lee Kwang-mo'sSpring in My Hometown".meniscuszine.com.Retrieved2 October2018.
- ^"Spring in My Hometown".BIFF.1999.Retrieved2 October2018.
- ^"Spring in My Hometown".KVIFF.2001.Retrieved2 October2018.
- ^Paquet, Darcy."Spring In My Hometownreview ".www.koreanfilm.org.Retrieved2 October2018.
- ^"LEE Kwang-mo".Korean Film Council.Retrieved2 October2018.
External links
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