The Grand Bell Awards , also known as Daejong Film Awards, is an awards ceremony presented annually by The Motion Pictures Association of Korea for excellence in film in South Korea.
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The 52nd ceremony was held on November 20, 2015 in the Kbs Hall in Seoul and hosted by Shin Hyun Joon and Han Go Eun. To promote the awards beyond the borders of Korea, the show was also broadcasted live online in China and a new category was added, regarding foreign actors. Furthermore, the head of the steering committee announced that they were pressing for North Korean directors and actors to attend and compete.
Gao Yuanyuan
However, the ceremony was an utter disaster, chiefly due to a number of mishandling and much controversy. Roughly a month before the ceremony, the organizers announced that they would present awards only to the winners that attended the ceremony. Otherwise,...
- 11/30/2015
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Origin Pictures, Paines Plough, BBC Films launch writing scheme
Origin Pictures is teaming with theatre company Paines Plough on a scheme to develop playwrights’ screen-writing skills.
Origin, producers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and TV series Jamaica Inn, is launching the scheme with backing from its BFI Vision Award and in collaboration with BBC Films.
The partnership will support four playwrights in their writing across film and theatre over six months through workshops, mentoring and editorial support.
The selected writers are Alia Bano, Stacey Gregg, Ali Taylor and Alexandra Wood.
Bano won the Charles Wintour Award in 2009 for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play Shades, which ran at the Royal Court that year. Her play Gap was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their Connections 2011 season.
Wood, whose plays include The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), Decade (co-writer/Headlong...
Origin Pictures is teaming with theatre company Paines Plough on a scheme to develop playwrights’ screen-writing skills.
Origin, producers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and TV series Jamaica Inn, is launching the scheme with backing from its BFI Vision Award and in collaboration with BBC Films.
The partnership will support four playwrights in their writing across film and theatre over six months through workshops, mentoring and editorial support.
The selected writers are Alia Bano, Stacey Gregg, Ali Taylor and Alexandra Wood.
Bano won the Charles Wintour Award in 2009 for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play Shades, which ran at the Royal Court that year. Her play Gap was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their Connections 2011 season.
Wood, whose plays include The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), Decade (co-writer/Headlong...
- 7/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Harry Potter star Katie Leung was banned from wearing nail polish for five months while playing a writer suffering oppression in communist China.
The British actress landed the role of Jung Chang in a stage version of the book Wild Swans, in which Chang details her family's life under a sparse Chinese regime.
To give her performance maximum authenticity, Leung agreed to forgo Western luxuries and spa treatments - and she celebrated the end of her run in the show with a manicure on Thursday.
Taking to her Twitter.com blog, the actress posted a photo of her newly-polished nails alongside the message, "Applying nail polish after 5 months of living under communist regime feels very strange... And a nude colour at that. We are so privileged it's insane how much one still whines. Now let's all Man Up and apply some nail polish!"...
The British actress landed the role of Jung Chang in a stage version of the book Wild Swans, in which Chang details her family's life under a sparse Chinese regime.
To give her performance maximum authenticity, Leung agreed to forgo Western luxuries and spa treatments - and she celebrated the end of her run in the show with a manicure on Thursday.
Taking to her Twitter.com blog, the actress posted a photo of her newly-polished nails alongside the message, "Applying nail polish after 5 months of living under communist regime feels very strange... And a nude colour at that. We are so privileged it's insane how much one still whines. Now let's all Man Up and apply some nail polish!"...
- 5/17/2012
- WENN
From Snow White to Jack White, and Cumbria to Cannes, the Observer's critics pick the season's highlights. What are you most looking forward to? Post your comments below
Download the spring arts calendar 2012
April
2 Pop Dr John The New Orleans legend decamps to Nashville to record with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach; excellence ensues on the Locked Down LP.
4 Art Damien Hirst The world's richest living artist enjoys a major survey of more than 20 years of his work, including medicine cabinets, diamond skull and a certain preserved shark. Tate Modern, London until 9 September.
6 Film This Must Be the Place Sean Penn plays a retired rock star scouring America for the fugitive Nazi who tormented his father in Auschwitz. Paolo Sorrentino escapes from the art house in his first English-language film.
7 Theatre Where Have I Been All My Life? Following the success of London Road, her verbatim musical at the National,...
Download the spring arts calendar 2012
April
2 Pop Dr John The New Orleans legend decamps to Nashville to record with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach; excellence ensues on the Locked Down LP.
4 Art Damien Hirst The world's richest living artist enjoys a major survey of more than 20 years of his work, including medicine cabinets, diamond skull and a certain preserved shark. Tate Modern, London until 9 September.
6 Film This Must Be the Place Sean Penn plays a retired rock star scouring America for the fugitive Nazi who tormented his father in Auschwitz. Paolo Sorrentino escapes from the art house in his first English-language film.
7 Theatre Where Have I Been All My Life? Following the success of London Road, her verbatim musical at the National,...
- 3/31/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Harry Potter star Katie Leung is to make her theatre debut in a stage adaptation of bestselling novel Wild Swans.
Leung, who portrayed Daniel Radcliffe's girlfriend Cho Chang in the hit wizard movie franchise, will lead the cast in the production when it debuts at the American Repertory Theatre in Massachusetts in February. The play is also scheduled for a U.K. run in April.
The book, which was released in 1992, chronicles the true story of three female generations growing up in China. Leung will play the lead role of author Jung Chang.
Speaking about the project, she tells BBC News, "I look forward to performing this truly inspirational story on stage."
Author Chang is thrilled by the casting and the production as a whole, stating, "To see Wild Swans on stage - transferred into another art form - will be fantastic. It feels great to know that my book is in such good hands."...
Leung, who portrayed Daniel Radcliffe's girlfriend Cho Chang in the hit wizard movie franchise, will lead the cast in the production when it debuts at the American Repertory Theatre in Massachusetts in February. The play is also scheduled for a U.K. run in April.
The book, which was released in 1992, chronicles the true story of three female generations growing up in China. Leung will play the lead role of author Jung Chang.
Speaking about the project, she tells BBC News, "I look forward to performing this truly inspirational story on stage."
Author Chang is thrilled by the casting and the production as a whole, stating, "To see Wild Swans on stage - transferred into another art form - will be fantastic. It feels great to know that my book is in such good hands."...
- 12/8/2011
- WENN
Katie Leung was tempted to quit Hollywood after wrapping Harry Potter - until she rediscovered her passion for acting in drama school.
Leung, who shot to fame playing the boy wizard's love interest Cho Chang, considered pursuing an alternative career path after the final Potter movie was released this summer.
She tells Britain's Evening Standard, "Harry Potter was an amazing experience but I didn't know whether I was chosen on my acting ability or because I fitted the character at the time."
The 24 year old enrolled in an intensive drama course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland over the summer and admits the classes reignited her desire to act.
Now she's set to make her stage debut in Wild Swans, an adaptation of Jung Chang's historical epic, at London's Young Vic theatre in April.
She adds, "Going to drama college reconfirmed my passion for acting and then this stage work popped up. I'm really excited to be making my theatre debut. It's just an amazing opportunity and I couldn't have asked for anything better than this after Potter. I look forward to representing this truly inspirational story on stage."...
Leung, who shot to fame playing the boy wizard's love interest Cho Chang, considered pursuing an alternative career path after the final Potter movie was released this summer.
She tells Britain's Evening Standard, "Harry Potter was an amazing experience but I didn't know whether I was chosen on my acting ability or because I fitted the character at the time."
The 24 year old enrolled in an intensive drama course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland over the summer and admits the classes reignited her desire to act.
Now she's set to make her stage debut in Wild Swans, an adaptation of Jung Chang's historical epic, at London's Young Vic theatre in April.
She adds, "Going to drama college reconfirmed my passion for acting and then this stage work popped up. I'm really excited to be making my theatre debut. It's just an amazing opportunity and I couldn't have asked for anything better than this after Potter. I look forward to representing this truly inspirational story on stage."...
- 12/6/2011
- WENN
Tim Marlow meets celebrated author Jung Chang at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Chang discusses her colourful and tragic life and complicated relationship with her home country, through some works in the great museum of art and design. Jung Chang turned her and her family’s turbulent life at the hands of Mao Zedong into one of the bestselling non-fiction books ever.
- 7/21/2010
- Sky TV
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