January 31, 2011
iPhone 4 shot film to be presented at Berlin's short film competition
Top South Korean sales agent Finecut is to handle international rights to Night Fishing, the film that was recently shot on an iPhone 4 by Oldboy director Park Chan-wook and his brother Park Chan-kyong. Film Business Asia reports.
Several short films have been made using camera phones and Korea even held an iPhone 4 film festival in October, but Night Fishing is the first to receive a theatrical release in the country.
International distributors will get to see the film in Berlin's short film competition section. Finecut, which previously represented Park's breakout Oldboy, will be responsible for closing deals with buyers at the European Film Market.
The 33-minute mostly black-and-white film follows a fisherman who encounters a female shaman and goes from this life to the next.
It was made with regular film equipment, but substituted eight different phones with various lens attachments for conventional movie cameras. It cost $133,000, its budget financed by KT, the local distributor of the iPhone in South Korea.
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