Filmoteka
Kim Dong-won
- Department:Directing
- Birthday:2/24/1955
- Popularity:0
- Also known as:김동원
Biography:
KIM Dong-won is like a godfather to Korean documentaries. As the leader of [PURN Production], a documentary production house that focused on unearthing the contradictions of Korean society from a progressive viewpoint. Purporting to make “good,” rather than “fun” movies, his camera zoomed straight in on the dark corners of the society, places full of contradictions, and refuges of the socially disadvantaged. KIM’s works provided textbook examples to Korea’s documentary directors that followed in his footsteps. His debut movie, < Sangye-dong Olympics >(1987), deals with people of Sangye-dong, an area of Seoul that was torn down by the government only because the area was “not easy on eyes” in the years leading up to the Seoul Olympics of 1988. In < Repatriation >(2004), arguably his best work, KIM Dong-won’s camera followed in breathing distance the lives of unconverted long-term pro-North Korea prisoners in South Korean jails. Devoid of any traces of exaggeration or direction, < Repatriation > shows the power of a documentary by capturing the essence of the subjects through long and candid takes.
Acting and producing career
Acting
Producing
- 2022movie
The 2nd Repatriation
as Director
- 2017movie
Jung Il-woo, My Friend
as Director
- 2008movie
63 Years On
as Director
- 2006movie
JONGNO, WINTER
as Director
- 2006movie
If You Were Me 2
as Director
- 2004movie
Repatriation
as Director
- 2004movie
Repatriation
as Screenplay
- 2002movie
TEKKEN FAMILY
as Director
- 2001movie
A man
as Director
- 1999movie
Another World We Are Making: Haengdang-Dong People 2
as Director
- 1997movie
The 6 Days Struggle at the Myong-Dong Cathedral
as Director
- 1995movie
People In A Flood Of Media
as Director
- 1995movie
We'll Be One
as Director
- 1994movie
Haengdang-dong People
as Director
- 1990movie
Standing on the Edge of Death
as Director
- 1988movie
Sanggyedong Olympic
as Director
- 1988movie
Sanggyedong Olympic
as Director of Photography
- 1986movie
James' May
as Director
