Recovering mode

Not from drinking or excessive exercise but the intensive schedule at Puchon Int'l Fantastic Film Festival. We had 25 meetings in 3 days. I wish it were for my project. :) Glad I was repping a very worthy project. Looks like I'm getting involved in it as some kind of a producer.

Oh, good news! The project, which is called The Arsonists, won two awards at NAFF. Very exciting and rewarding.

Now back to my life. My projects. Momentum is important.



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I'm in Pucheon. It's a satellite city to Seoul. Nothing stands out about the city but this is also the host to one of the surprisingly pleasant film festivals in Asia.

PIFAN is a short for Pucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and it's the 13th year this year. I came here just to watch films and discovered "Om Shanti Om" and its heroine Deepika Padukone (who's currently on my wallpaper). Although I plan to see her new film "Billu," I'm here this year for a different reason.

One of my good friends Shinkyu Park and another one, Jun-won Hah have a project at NAFF, a sidebar future project pitch market and I came here to support them. Since they're kind of newcomers (although Jun-won co-wrote The Host) and they have to pitch their project mostly in English, I'm giving them advice and some translation work, too. :)

Anyhow, it's going to be an interesting few days. Already tonight, we had a fun night. Ran into Roy Lee (The Departed), Gloria Fan, and other good friends in the industry. A bunch of us ventured out to some random beer place. The party grew into more than 25 people and we took over the place. Anyhow, it's great to catch up with some old friends from all over the world. That's probably the charm of the festival.

BTW, they're putting us at some love hotel. What's up about that? Like we need more love. :)

Wonsuk's life circa July 2009

These days, I'm hardly living the life of a film director. If you ask me when my directorial work will come out, you might want to take a long nap and ask me again a year from now.

Actually, it's not true. I worked hard on a few projects but haven't been lucky. A low budget horror movie I was considering directing this summer fell through because the writer of the project gave me and a producer a hard time. It was a good material but his anxiety an aggressiveness rubbed us the wrong way. The producer and I have decided it wasn't worth all the trouble. I was really hoping to do this film so I kind of stopped writing the past several months.

So now back to ground zero. Other than the horror script I'm producing (which is in development), I have no project going on now. I mean, I've been pretty busy lately. But they're not film projects. A lot of entertainment related business stuff. Plus, too much Twitter and FB time. :)

Ironically, some script translation I've taken on to make some extra cash has ignited my passion for writing. Yes, I did translate two Korean scripts into English and while it was tough conveying the writers' intent, it got me excited again creatively.

Of course, I don't know how long this bug inside me will last but it's better than nothing. Currently I have two scripts to finish. One is called The Stupid Girl, a sort of romantic comedy set in Tokyo and New York. Somewhat inspired by The Apartment and based on some experiences I've had, it's going to show my color. My sensibility. The other one, currently without a title, is a thriller set in Mongolia. Now if I can somewhat finish the first draft of each one by Thanksgiving, I'd be very proud and thankful.

We shall see now.


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Blogging from iPhone

Finally I got a blogging app on my iPhone to start blogging anywhere and anytime. Excited about it. I should be able to do it more often.


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