Pinoy filmmaker to showcase works in South Korea

A YOUNG aspiring Filipino filmmaker has called on Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Raul S. Hernandez at the Philippine Chancery to talk about the screening of his first full-length feature film in South Korea after its release in the Philippines last year.

On its website, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday said filmmaker Nash Ang presented his film “Seoul Mates,” together with his musical director Gil Hizon, a Seoul-based veteran Filipino musician.

“Seoul Mates” is a 114-minute indie film shot in the South Korean capital.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) describes the film as a “gender-bending tale of a Korean and Filipina set amidst the romantic landscape of Seoul”.

Screened in malls in Metro Manila as an entry in the Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival in November 2014, the feature was screened at Indie Space in Seoul last January 17.

Ang is a recipient of South Korea’s Ministry of Culture scholarship grant now pursuing an MA degree in filmmaking at the prestigious Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts), the DFA said.

Ang won his scholarship after presenting “Water Ghetto” (Sa Likod ng Palasyo) at the DMZ International Documentary Festival in 2011 and then winning Best Director for “Live to Dive (Lusong)” at the 13th Pyongyang International Film Festival in 2012, the DFA added. (Marian Lyka Jaca, USJ-R Masscom intern/Sunnex)