Seoul, Korea – Director Jang Kun-Jae’s movie Eighteen won the Grand Prize in the category of New Cinema at the 46th Italy Pesaro International Film Festival on June 27.

New Cinema is a fairly new category, having been introduced into the Pesaro International Film Festival in 2005. In the first year, the Grand Prize in this category went to Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu for his film Grain in Ear.

Eighteen, is a story about a teenager boy who doesn’t want to go to school but wants to be with his girlfriend and earn money. The film won the Dragons & Tigers Award, which is awarded to the best new director, at the Vancouver International Film Festival last year.

The panel of judges said, “The young Korean director Jang Kun-Jae transforms a private page of his sentimental education into a fresh, pleasant, and audaciously sincere tale.”


Source: JTN (Original article in Korean)
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Translated by Sarah Lee / Korea.com