Kim Dong-won

Birth : 1974-01-01,

History

Born in 1974. Graduated from the Film Department at Seoul Institute of the Arts. With his short 81, Hae-jeok Became the Disco King, KIM won the Miraebol Award at the 25th Korean Independent Short Film Festival. Starting his professional career as a scripter to BONG Joon-hos Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), he caught attention with his debut feature Bet on My Disco and received Critics Award at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Japan. He completed his second feature Drifting Away .

Movies

Si, Nario
Writer
Kyeong-tae, a film director who writes poems, started backpacking some time ago. Now he really needs to find another job. But what should remain to be desired, and what should be restarted? First, he started to backpack at the playground in front of his ex-girlfriend's house. The three-day playground backpacking journey of a film director, who dreams to become a poet.
Si, Nario
Director
Kyeong-tae, a film director who writes poems, started backpacking some time ago. Now he really needs to find another job. But what should remain to be desired, and what should be restarted? First, he started to backpack at the playground in front of his ex-girlfriend's house. The three-day playground backpacking journey of a film director, who dreams to become a poet.
Drifting Away
Screenplay
Chan-young is a musical actor. Dan-bee who is in a musical with Chan-young gently holds his hands behind the curtain. Chan-young stays still. There is Chan-young who has fallen in love for the second time. And there is Dan-bee who’s rushing to Chan-young. But it is unclear whether she knows or not about her immature husband’s affair... Chan-young’s wife Mi-sun is quiet and calm. However, as seasons change their performances are reaching their end and there is a change in their love...
Drifting Away
Director
Chan-young is a musical actor. Dan-bee who is in a musical with Chan-young gently holds his hands behind the curtain. Chan-young stays still. There is Chan-young who has fallen in love for the second time. And there is Dan-bee who’s rushing to Chan-young. But it is unclear whether she knows or not about her immature husband’s affair... Chan-young’s wife Mi-sun is quiet and calm. However, as seasons change their performances are reaching their end and there is a change in their love...
Bet On My Disco
Story
When her father has a terrible accident a girl is forced to work as a hostess in a popular disco bar owned by a powerful gangster. Her brother tries to free her, but the gangster refuses and instead sets the brother, a bad dancer, an impossible challenge: if he wants to free his sister, he must win an upcoming disco contest!
Bet On My Disco
Director
When her father has a terrible accident a girl is forced to work as a hostess in a popular disco bar owned by a powerful gangster. Her brother tries to free her, but the gangster refuses and instead sets the brother, a bad dancer, an impossible challenge: if he wants to free his sister, he must win an upcoming disco contest!
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Script Supervisor
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.