15th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 22 - Jul 9, 2016

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Photo: KAFA/(Korean Academy of Film Arts; Courtesy of M-Line Distribution

New York Premiere

The Boys Who Cried Wolf

양치기들

The Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) has produced many of Korea's top directors – including Bong Joon-ho, Choi Dong-hoon, and Kim Tae-yong – but none of them has ever won a major award for their dissertation film. Meet KAFA's latest prodigy, Kim Jin-hwang, who shared the Directors Guild Award at the 2015 Busan Film Festival for his feature debut, The Boys Who Cried Wolf. The story revolves around Wan-ju, a failed stage actor who makes ends meet by playing 'real-life' parts as someone's boyfriend or wingman. Desperate for money, Wan-ju takes on his most challenging 'role' ever when he agrees to pretend to have witnessed a murder. But after realizing that the woman who hired him isn't who she claims to be, Wanju takes it upon himself to exonerate the very man he is testifying against. In addition to directing, Kim also wrote, edited, and co-produced the film.

Director: Kim Jin-hwang
Cast: Song Ha-joon, Yoon Jeong-il, Cha Rae-hyeong, Park Jong-hwan
Languages: Korean with English subtitles
2015; 79 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 9, 2:15pm
SVA Theatre

Q&A with Kim Jin-hwang

Kim Jin-hwang
김진황

"Kim Jin-hwang is a graduate of Sejong University's Film Department and the Korean Academy of Film Arts' Department of Directing. After making a series of short films — The Ordinary Moment (2012), A and B (2012), Curtain Call (2014), and Mrs. Hwang (2014) — Kim directed, wrote, edited and co-produced his debut feature, The Boys Who Cried Wolf. The thriller, which doubled as his KAFA dissertation film, explores the ethical boundaries of make-believe when an actor for hire becomes embroiled in a murder case as a fake witness, only to discover layers of pretense. It premiered in the Korean Cinema Today: Vision section of last October's Busan International Film Festival, where it shared the Directors' Guild Award. After its international premiere at the competitive \"Forward Future\" section of the Beijing International Film Festival in April, it receives its first screening outside Asia at this year's New York Asian Film Festival."