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Read My Lips

2010, Color, 78', Live Action
Dir: YOON Seong-ho
Keyword: Comedy, Romance, Family

 

Film Awards
The 15th Busan International Film Festival (2010,Korea)
Synopsis
Jae-min, still getting over his ex-wife Ha-ra, is a talent agent who takes care of actors and actresses with personal issues. They wouldn' t leave him alone and keep pushing him to find more auditions for them.
At his birthday party, the family try to give advices in vein, andto make it worse, Hara phones him every once in a while and confuses him. To Jae-min, being heartbroken with the irrevocable memories of the old days with Hara, café Ga-hwa is the only shelter, although the staffs there are not any better in saying nonsense. Each day of life is tough, But isn' t it true that all meaningless chats, bullshits and nonsense' s altogether form the universe? The universe is getting old since its birth 15 billion years ago. In this universe, we are probably the merciful purgatories to each other.
Director's Note
Here are Jae-min' s clumsy love which began only after separation, and clumsy consolation of his family and friends. I hope all these jokes and nonsense send the viewers a message of support.
Director's Bio / Filmography
- YOON Seong-ho

Born in 1976, Korea
Graduated from Sogang Univ., Dept. of Mass Communication
Graduated from Graduate School of The Korean National University of Arts, Dept. of Film & Multimedia 

2001  [Road to Samchunpo] DV 6mm, color, 40min.
          Audience Award, Busan Asian Short Film Festival (2002, Korea)
          Grand Prize, 3rd Seoul Int’l Youth Film Festival (2001, Korea)
          Best Film, 1st Public Access Festival (2001, Korea)
2002  [A Disaster of Middle Classes] DV 6mm, color, 38min.
          4th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2003, Korea)
          Radical Prize, Indie Video Festival (2003, Korea)
2003  [A Desultory Empire] DV 6mm, color, 22min.
          5th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea)
          8th Human Rights Film Festival (2004, Korea)
          2nd Seoul Christianity Film Festival (2004, Korea)
2004  [If I Wear a Sword in the Stone] DV 6mm, color, 40min.
          New Media Rookie Award, 5th New Media Art Festival in Seoul (2005, Korea)
          Opening Film, IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2004, Korea)
          5th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea)
          Wide Angle, 9th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea)
          Korean Independent Cinema: Sharpest New Voices in Film and Video (2004, Japan)
          [Seongho, The Right Wing Boy] DV 6mm, color, 7min. 
          Opening Film, 10th Incheon Human Rights Film Festival (2005, Korea)
          9th Human Rights Film Festival (2005, Korea)
          Wide Angle, 10th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
          Opening Film, 9th Suwon Human Rights Film Festival (2005, Korea)
          30th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004, Korea)
          4th Seoul Independent Documentary Film & Video Festival (2004, Korea)
2005 [Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now] 35mm, color, 22min.
          4th Int’l Film Festival of Asia Pacific Countries in Vladivostok (2006, Russia)
          Brazil Student Film Festival (2006, Brazil)
          Korean Independent Cinema (2006, Japan)
          Jury’s Special Prize, Tout Court Festival (2005, France)
          2nd Anonimul Int’l Independent Film Festival (2005, Romania)
          4th Korean Film Award (2005, Korea)
          Wide Angle, 10th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
          Closing Film, IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2005, Korea)
          6th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
2006 [Portfolio] 35mm, color, 17཮"
          26th San Francisco Int’l Asian American Film Festival (2008, USA)
          6th Korean Film Award (2007, Korea)
          Competition, 32nd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2006, Korea)
          Sunje Fund Award (Best Short Film), 11th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2006, Korea)
2007 [Milky Way Liberation Front] HD, color, 100min.
          50th Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth (2009, Czech Republic)
          Revolve Film and Music Festival (2009, USA)
          Korean Film Festival DC 2009 (2009, USA)
          3rd Festival Franco Coreen du Film (2008, France)
          10th Cinemanila International Film Festival (2008, Philippine)
          3rd London Korean Film Festival (2008, UK)
          Wind of Asia-Middle East Section, 21st Tokyo International Film Festival (2008, Japan)
          International Amsterdam Film Festival (2008, The Netherlands)
          2nd Korean Film Festival Seoul-Stockholm (2008, Sweden)
          6th Bangkok International Film Festival (2008, Thailand)
          2nd Chungmuroo Int’l Film Festival (2008, Korea)
         Osian’s-Cinefan, Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (2008, India)
          62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival (2008, UK)
          7th Tribeca Film Festival (2008, USA)
          21st Singapore Int’l Film Festival (2008, Singapore)
          Independent Film of the Year Award (2007, Korea)
          33rd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2007, Korea)
          New Currents, 12th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2007, Korea)
2008  [The Theory & Practice of Teenage Drama-an episode of If You Were Me 4] 35mm, color, 19min.
          50th Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth (2009, Czech Republic)
           5th Riverside Int’l Film Festival (2009, USA)
           34th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2008, Korea)
           13th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2008, Korea)
           5th International Eurasia Film Festival (2008, Kazakhstan)
           10th Seoul Int’l Youth Film Festival (2008, Korea)
           Closing Film, 9th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2008, Korea)
2009 [Neo Liberal Man-an episode of Show Me the Money] HD, color, 112min. (11ཀྵ" )
            4th International College Peace Film Festival (2009, Korea)
            IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum 2009 (2009, Korea)
            Opening Film, 10th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2009, Korea)
2010 [Read My Lips] HD, color, 78min.
        15th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2010, Korea)
2010 [Dr. Jump] 68min.
2010 [Pitpat Wing Chun] 4min. Co-directing

        2nd Chinese Korean Share Your Dream Short Film Festival (2015, China)
        8th InDPanda Int'l Short Film Festival (2012, Hong Kong)
        Korean Short Films Festival in Moscow (2012, Russia) 
        Opening Film, 2nd Seoul Int'l Extreme Short Image & Film Festival (2010, Korea)

2014  [Every dog has his day-an episode of Now Playing]

        Opening Film, 40th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2014, Korea)

Staff
Director/screenwriter : YOON Seong-ho
Production : INDIESTORY Inc.
Co-production : 3767 Film
Presented by Indieplug
Producer : PARK Nam-hui
Cinematography : CHOI Yoon-man
Gaffer : HA Kyung-ho
Music : 9 and Numbers
Mixing : CHO Ye-jin
Recording : AHN Bok-nam
Editing : NOH Yoo-jeong
Make-up : CHOI Yoo-mi
Cast
HWANG Je-sung as Jae-min
PARK Hyuk-kwon as Hyuk-kwon
PARK Hee-bon as Hee-bon