Jang Jae-hyun

This is a Korean name; the family name is Jang.

Jang Jae-hyun
Born	1981 (age 34–35) South Korea
Alma mater	Sungkyunkwan University Korea National University of Arts
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Korean name
Hangul	장재현
Revised Romanization	Jang Jae-hyeon
McCune–Reischauer	Chang Chae-hyŏn

Jang Jae-hyun (born 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Jang served as an assistant director on the blockbuster period drama Masquerade (2012) before breaking out with the short 12th Assistant Deacon (2014) which won Best Film in The Extreme Nightmare section at the 13th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, and Best Director Award (Korean Competition For Shorts) at the 15th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2014. Based on the award-winning short, he made his first feature film The Priests (2015) - a supernatural mystery thriller, which was a hit with more than 5.4 million admissions. Jang said ... "I got a weird feeling when I saw a priest waiting anxiously for someone on the other side of a fast food restaurant window. The Priests started then."^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Filmography

Maley from India (short film, 2009) - director
Bus (short film, 2010) - director
Themselves (2011) - assistant director, script editor
S.I.U. (2011) - assistant director
Masquerade (2012) - assistant director, actor
12th Assistant Deacon (short film, 2014) - director, screenwriter
The Priests (2015) - director, screenwriter

Awards

2014 15th Jeonju International Film Festival: Best Director Award (12th Assistant Deacon)
2016 16th Director's Cut Awards: Best New Director (The Priests)^[5]

References

↑ "JANG Jae-hyun". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
↑ Conran, Pierce (10 November 2015). "The Priests". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
↑ "Kang Dong-won and Kim Yoon-seok's The Priests". Hancinema. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
↑ Conran, Pierce (8 December 2015). "THE PRIESTS Tops November Releases". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
↑ Conran, Pierce (11 August 2016). "NA Hong-jin Nabs Best Director from Director's Cut Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-10-16.

External links

Jang Jae-hyun at the Korean Movie Database
Jang Jae-hyun at the Internet Movie Database
Jang Jae-hyun at HanCinema

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