Lee Kwon
Biography
Before making his films, LEE Kwon was involved in various capacities in several Korean classics, including Memento Mori (1999) and Take Care of My Cat (2001). In 2002, he was a storyboard artist for Surprise Party and also made the short film Cowardly Vicious.
Around this time he won several awards for his shorts, including the Audience Award and Festival’s Choice Award at RESFEST Korea in 2002, the runner-up prize from the Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival in 2003, and another runner-up prize at the Skip City Digital Film Festival in Japan in 2004.
He took part in the commercial feature Love Exposure in 2007 and that same year he ascended to the feature directing chair with Attack on the Pin-up Boys. A story about attractive high school students who are attacked by unknown people and soon court these attacks when they realize these are turning them into minor celebrities, the film has endured as a niche favorite to this day.
His next film came in 2014, selected as the closing film of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, My Ordinary Love Story featured KANG Ye-won as an unlucky in love woman who finally meets her partner, a meek but sweet man played by SONG Sae-book. Little does he know that he harbors a very dark secret. The romance-comedy-thriller debuted to enthusiastic reviews.
