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Shin Yeon-shick (born 1976) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed The Fair Love (2010), The Russian Novel (2013), Rough Play (2013), Romans 8:37 (2017), and Cassiopeia (2022), as well as wrote the screenplays for Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (2016) and Cobweb (2023).

Career

Born in Seoul in 1976, Shin Yeon-shick dropped out of his Spanish Studies major at university to pursue a career in filmmaking. He made his directorial debut in 2003 with Piano Lesson, made on a micro-budget of US$300. In 2005, Shin wrote and directed the black-and-white indie A Great Actor, which had its international premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

His next film was The Fair Love (2010), a nuanced, lyrical inter-generational romance starring Ahn Sung-ki and Lee Ha-na. But despite its well-known actors and positive reviews, the film was a box office failure with mainstream audiences.

Shin continued making low-budget experimental films. The Russian Novel, an ambitious arthouse drama about a depressed author (played by Kang Shin-hyo) who wakes up from a 27-year coma to find himself a literary sensation for a novel he didn't write, drew even more critical acclaim. The Director's Guild of Korea named Shin as Best Director at the 17th Busan International Film Festival in 2012, and he also won Best Screenplay from the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards and the Buil Film Awards.

In 2013, he directed Rough Play (titled "An Actor Is an Actor" in Korean) from a screenplay by Kim Ki-duk about the dark underbelly of the Korean film industry through a young actor's quick rise and fall, and cast K-pop star Lee Joon in the leading role. Shin was determined to reshape Kim's symbolism-heavy script into a more narrative-driven, commercial film, and during post-production he rewrote and reshot 50% of the film.

This was followed by The Avian Kind, in which a man goes on a road trip to search for his missing wife, and finally finds her 15 years later, only she's transformed into a bird. It made its world premiere at the Jeonju International Film Festival as part of the 2014 Jeonju Digital Project, and received a theatrical release in 2015. Shin then shared screenwriting credit with Kim Sung-ho for How to Steal a Dog (2014).

His upcoming project Like a French Film is an omnibus composed of four short films titled A Time to Leave, A Lady Selling Beer, A Remaining Time and Like a French Film, starring Shin Min-cheol and Kim Dasom.

Filmography

Feature films

Television series

Awards

See also

• List of Korean film directors
• Cinema of Korea

References

1. "SHIN Yeon-shick". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
2. "Shin Yeon-shick". New York Asian Film Festival. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
3. "A Great Actor SD-2006". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
4. ^ Tae, Sang-joon (26 September 2013). "SHIN Yeon-shick, Director of ROUGH PLAY". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
5. Kim, June (6 October 2014). "SHIM Eun-kyung, SONG Kang-ho, HONG Sangsoo and ROARING CURRENTS Win at 23rd Buil Film Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
6. Velez, Diva (19 July 2014). "NY Asian 2014: Director Shin Yeon-shick Collaborates With Kim Ki-duk And K-Pop Idol Lee Joon On ROUGH PLAY". Twitch Film. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
7. Song, Soon-jin (13 April 2014). "Cine interview: Shin Yeon-shick, Director of Jeonju Digital Project 2014 The Avian Kind - "This time, it is about identity"". The Hankyoreh. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
8. Conran, Pierce (23 January 2014). "Jeonju Digital Project Expands to Features". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
9. Kim, June (13 November 2014). "SHIN Yeon-shick's LIKE A FRENCH FILM Discovers New Faces". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
10. Tae, Yu-na (August 30, 2022). "[공식] 송강호, 데뷔 첫 드라마 진출…작품은 '삼식이 삼촌" [ Song Kang-ho, debuting in drama for the first time... The work is 'Samsik Uncle] (in Korean). Ten Asia. Retrieved August 30, 2022 – via Naver.
11. Jang, Sung-ran (30 April 2013). "JUNG Eun-chae and SHIN Yeon-shick Receive Moet Rising Star Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
12. Paquet, Darcy. "Wildflower Film Awards". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
13. Cremin, Stephen (18 March 2014). "Wildflower Awards celebrates Korean indies". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
14. Kim, June (6 October 2014). "SHIM Eun-kyung, SONG Kang-ho, HONG Sangsoo and ROARING CURRENTS Win at 23rd Buil Film Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
15. Conran, Pierce (11 August 2016). "NA Hong-jin Nabs Best Director from Director's Cut Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
16. Park, Mi-ae (October 24, 2022). "헤어질 결심', 영평상 최우수작품상 선정…공로상 안성기" ['Decision to break up' selected for Best Picture at the Youngpyeong Awards... Achievement Award Ahn Sung-ki]. E-Daily (in Korean). Retrieved October 24, 2022 – via Naver.

External links

• Shin Yeon-shick at the Korean Movie Database
• Shin Yeon-shick at IMDb
• Shin Yeon-shick at HanCinema

• 1976 births
• Living people
• South Korean film directors
• South Korean screenwriters
• South Korean male film actors