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KCrush Interview with Sean Dulake

Sean Dulake has a way of making you feel like you already know him. Whether he’s charming audiences on Korean primetime dramas or pulling fans into the whirlwind fantasy of Dramaworld, the actor, writer, and producer has built a career that blends... Read More

29Aug

BLACKSWAN Prepares to Show New Colors in KPOPPED

On August 29, 2025, the world will be able to tune into Apple TV+ and binge KPOPPED, a new competition series unlike anything we’ve experienced before. Artists from around the world will collaborate to reimagine one of their chart-topping songs,... Read More

25Aug

Fantasia IFF 2025 – KCrush Interview with ‘Haunted Mountain: The Yellow Taboo’ with Director Tsai Chia Ying and Producer Ivan Chen

We know the five stages of grief to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, but what if there’s a sixth unnamed emotion? Regret. Written by Zou Wan-Zhen (Women in Taipei), and directed by Tsai Chai-ying (The Remains), the new... Read More

5Aug

Fantasia IFF 2025 KCrush Interview with ‘Noise’ Filmmaker Kim Soo-jin

When describing sound or music that evokes feelings of being uneasy, overwhelmed, confused, or scared we call it noise. Noise connotes something that’s undefined in a way that music and sound aren’t, and in his award winning feature Noise,... Read More

21Jul

Jeonju IFF 2025 ‘Colorless, Odorless’ Interview with Director Lee Eunhee and Producer Kim Shinjae

For her debut feature length documentary Colorless, Odorless, which screened as an official selection at the 2025 Jeonju International Film Festival, experimental visual artist and filmmaker Lee Eunhee investigates the toxic and deadly nature of the... Read More

30Jun

Jeonju IFF 2025 KCrush Interview with ‘Ulysses’ Filmmaker Uwagawa Hikaru

Is there any singular moment in our lives that is ever truly without meaning? In his debut feature film Ulysses, Japanese filmmaker Uwagawa Hikari seeks to find this out through seemingly random improvised sequence of events and discussions... Read More

26May

Jeonju IFF 2025 – KCrush Interview with ‘Winter in Sockho’ Director Koya Kamura

Based on the 2016 award-winning novel “Winter in Sokcho” by Elisa Shua Dusapin, filmmaker Koya Kamura’s adaption and debut feature film, is a quiet introspection on what identity, beauty, and self-confidence looks like in modern day South... Read More

12May

Jeonju IFF 2025 – KCrush Interview with ‘Mistress Dispeller’ Director Elizabeth Lo

For her second feature length film Mistress Dispeller, documentarian Elizabeth Lo follows a wife, her husband, his mistress, and the dispeller, the woman hired to cast out the mistress like a spell created to break the fragile bonds of marriage.... Read More

27Nov

REEL Asian 2024 – KCrush Interview with ‘Pierce’ Filmmaker Nelicia Low

For her debut feature film Pierce, writer and director Nelicia Low (Freeze, Let Her Eat Cake) took a look back to her past a member of the national Singapore fencing team, and her curiosity at the complicated relationship between her and her... Read More

19Nov

Reel Asian 2024 – KCrush Interview with ‘Lucky Star’ Filmmaker Gillian McKercher and Actor Andrew Phung

“Luck is what you make of it” is a saying that has been around for generations to describe the work people have to put into to turn situations in their favor, and perfectly encapsulates the dilemma father and reformed... Read More

16Nov

Reel Asian 2024 – KCrush Interview with ‘Exclusion: Beyond the Silence’ Filmmaker Keira Loughran

Toronto Reel Asian 2024 KCrush Interview With ‘Exclusion: Beyond The Silence’ Filmmaker Keira Loughran On July 1st, 1923, the Mackenzie King, the current Prime Minister of Canada signed into law the Chinese Immigration Act of... Read More

11Nov

Minikino 2024 KCrush Interview With ‘Sukoun, (Amplified)’ Filmaker Dina Naser

In her short film Sukoun (Amplified) which screened in the Boundaries program of the 2024 Minikino Film Week 10 of the Bali International Film Festival, Palestinian-Jordinian filmmaker Dina Naser brings draws attention to the... Read More

11Nov

Minikino 2024 KCrush Interview With ‘Purusa: Wedding Sacred’ Filmaker I Made Suniartika

‘The more society progresses, the more it seems to stay the same and even regress, and always at the expense of girls and women’, is just one of the many observations Indonesian student filmmaker I Made Suniartika makes in... Read More

20Oct

Minikino 2024 Interview with ‘A Fermenting Woman’ Director Priscilla Galvez & Writer Maisie Jacobson

How far is an artist supposed to go or allowed to go in their creative process before they’ve crossed boundaries into the unforgivable? Why are people having periods still taboo to talk, show and reference about in person and on screen?... Read More

13Oct

JeonjuIFF 2024 – Interview with Director Jo Won yong

In his short film Recite with Your Hands, Jazz columnist and filmmaker Jo Won-yong taps into the disconnect writers can experience when the emotions being conveyed through a piece of art seems beyond our reach. In the film, deaf literature... Read More

29Sep

TIFF24 KCrush Interview with ‘The Mother and the Bear’ Filmmaker Johnny Ma

Premiering in the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2024 Centrepiece program, filmmaker Johnny Ma’s (Oldstone, 2016, To Live to Sing, 2019), latest film The Mother and the Bear is a cosmic fairytale, but not quite, exploration... Read More

19Sep

FantasiaFest 2024 KCrush ‘A Samurai in Time’ Interview with Filmmaker Jun’ichi Yasuda

What’s a Samurai in the Edo period do when he finds himself transported hundreds of years into the future to the chaotic and confusing world of filmmaking? In his time-slip comedy A Samurai in Time, director Yasuda Junichi gives... Read More