Actress and film director Ku Hye-sun has been appointed as a judge for the 17th Seoul International Senior Film Festival.

According to her agency, NSENM, on the 5th, Ku Hye-sun recently joined the jury for the 17th Seoul International Senior Film Festival(SISFF).She will be judging the entries alongside other key figures in the film industry, including director Im Seon-ae, who directed the film “Love at the End of the Century,” editor-in-chief Song Kyung-won of film magazine Cine21, and film journalist Jang Seong-ran.

The ‘Seoul International Senior Film Festival’, now in its 17th year, is a global intergenerational film festival where people of various generations understand and communicate about life in old age through films.This year, it will be held for five days from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 13.

In the midst of all this, Ku Hye-sun was selected as a juror for the ‘SISFF International Short Film Competition’ section, where stories created by young and old directors from around the world unfold.She previously had a special relationship with the ‘Seoul International Senior Film Festival’.In 2013, Ku Hye-sun’s short film ‘Pieces of Memory’ won the Young Director Award at the festival.

Ku Hye-sun’s directorial work ‘Pieces of Memory’ is a nine-minute musical short film that fits together pieces of memory into a man’s life.

Meanwhile, Ku Hye-sun will take her first steps as a judge for the 17th Seoul International Senior Film Festival by attending the opening ceremony to be held at CGV Piccadilly 1958 on the 9th.


Reporter Seungmi smlee@donga.com

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