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

May 26, 2025 | 432 Visits

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
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
20Nov

BABYMONSTER – 1st World Tour Announced

BABYMONSTER will be having their 1st ever world tour taking off in January 2025. BABYMONSTER is gearing up for its first tour, scheduled for January of next year. Titled ‘HELLO MONSTERS’, the tour is set to start in South Korea before heading to... 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
20Jun

ShortShorts Film Festival & Asia 2024 – Interview with ‘Saigon Kiss’ writer and director Nguyễn Hồng Anh

 In this interview film critic and journalist Carolyn Hinds speaks with filmmaker Nguyễn Hồng Anh about her queer romance short film ‘Saigon Kiss’ which screened in the Rainbow Program at the Japanese festival (SSFF& Asia)... Read More
24Apr

KCrush ‘In Flames’ Interview with Filmmaker Zarrar Kahn

For his feature directorial debut In Flames, Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker Zarrar Kahn, gives audiences a densely layered psychological horror story of how trauma and the secrets we keep can end up imprisoning us in a life of uncertainty, fear, and... Read More
29Mar

SXSW 2024 ‘Seven Sisters’ Interview with Artist Rainbow Chan and Director Anne Berry

 In the thematic music video for her song ‘Seven Sisters’, singer, lyricist, composer, and producer Chun Yun Rainbow Chan looks into her ancestry to the ways of the Weitou people and the ‘bridal lament’ of the women yearning to be... Read More
20Mar

SXSW 2024 ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Interview with Filmmaker Shuchi Talati

The phrase “Girls will be girls”, shouldn’t seem like a revelation, but if you pause and think about it…it is. Award-winning writer and director Suchi Talati takes the well-known adage “Boys will be boys”, and recontextualizes it to... Read More
7Feb Brief History of a Family 2

KCrush Interview With “Brief History of a Family” Filmmaker Jianjie Lin – Sundance 2024

 Premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Brief History of a Family, is first time feature writer and director Jianjie Lin’s tense, methodically paced, and layered examination of the effects of China’s infamous political strategy... Read More

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