Director
Jeon Kyu-hwan
61 years · South Korea · 12 films
Jeon Kyu-hwan (Korean: 전규환, Korean pronunciation: [tɕʌnɡjuɸʷan]; born 1965) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Besides being the first Korean film to win the 2012 Queer Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, The Weight (2012) also won various awards at film festivals, including Best Director at the 16th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Silver Peacock Award for best director at the 43rd International Film Festival of India in 2012. Jeon started his career in a talent management company as a manager for actors such as Cho Jae-hyun and Sol Kyung-gu, before making his directorial feature debut with Mozart Town (2008), followed by Animal Town (2009) and Dance Town (2010). These films formed the 'town trilogy' that shed light on the scars that city leaves on the people living in it and vice versa. In From Seoul to Varanasi (2011), he experimented with melodrama genre and shot the film in India after being fascinated by the country when he was there to attend a film festival. The Weight (2012), about a hunchback mortician and his transgender stepsister, won the 2012 Queer Lion, an award for the "best film with a homosexual and queer culture theme" at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. It is also the first Korean film to win the prize.
Best known for
Filmography 12
Man In The Fog
2024 · Director
Wolves
2022 · Director, Screenplay
Wonderful Woman
2020 · Writer, Director
The End
2018 · Director, Writer
Angry Painter
2015 · Director, Writer
My Boy
2014 · Director, Writer
The Weight
2013 · Director, Writer
From Seoul to Varanasi
2012 · Writer, Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · Director
Mozart Town
2011 · Director, Writer
Dance Town
2011 · Writer, Director
Animal Town
2011 · Writer, Director