The 12th New York Asian Film Festival
June 28 – July 15, 2013
Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY, June 3, 2013 – The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema in association with Japan Society announce the full schedule today for the 2013 NewYork Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) which will screen June 28 – July 15. The popular film festival will showcase over 60 feature films with filmmakers and celebrity guests travelling from Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan to attend the festival. Also announced were special focuses for this year’s edition of NYAFF including a celebration of the career of Korean star Ryoo Seung-Beom, co-presented with the Korean Cultural Service in New York, and new works from the Philippines (joining the previously announced focuses on Hong Kong cinema, Taiwan pulp and a salute to Well Go USA).
The 2013 New York Asian Film Festival will feature 63 films
(59 features, 4 shorts)
including 3 World Premieres, 5 International Premieres, 21 North American
premieres, 4
U.S. premieres and 13 more films making their New York City debuts.
The Centerpiece Presentation will be Jang Cheol-Soo’s SECRETLY GREATLY. Making its International Premiere, the film is based on the webtoon series, “Covertness,” and stars three of Korea’s hottest young TV stars (Kim Soo-Hyun, Lee Hyun-Woo, Park Ki-Woong) as a trio of elite North Korean sleeper agents who have lived undercover in South Korea for so long that they now believe their own cover stories as a stupid average joe, a wannabe singer and a high school student. Finally they get their first mission: kill each other. If they don’t get the job done, Pyongyang will send a hit team to take care of things.
Kim Go-Eun will be the 2013 Star Asia Rising Star Award honoree. Following her debut in A MUSE, as a 17-year-old girl involved in a sexual relationship with a 70-year-old man, Kim Go-Eun went from an unknown drama student to one of Korea’s hottest actresses. Her performance has earned Go-Eun eight Best New Actress awards (including the Buil Film, Grand Bell, Busan, KOFRA and the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards) and launched her career like a rocket.
KOREAN ACTOR IN FOCUS: RYOO SEUNG-BEOM
The brother of Korea’s action auteur Ryoo Seung-Wan and the star of his first
self-made movie DIE BAD, Ryoo Seung-Beom has matured into one of the best character
actors in Korea. From his early roles in his brother’s short films, to his breakout
critical success as the angry young boxer in CRYING FIST and his “Best Actor” wins for BLOODY
TIE
(Grand Bell Awards, Korean Film Awards, Baeksang Arts Awards) he has basically grown into his career onscreen. New York audiences know him best as the voice
of Aachi in the scatological animated science-fiction film AACHI & SSIPAK and
for virtually stealing the show in THE BERLIN FILE as a ruthless North Korean “cleaner.” This
lineup will include: ARAHAN, THE BERLIN FILE, BLOODY TIE, THE UNJUST.
Please visit the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s website for more info: http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/new-york-asian-film-festival-2013.