Finecut acquires local hit The Attorney

South Korean sales agent Finecut has announced they’ve picked up current local hit The Attorney [pictured] and award-winning independent film Han Gong-ju to launch sales at the European Film Market (EFM).

As reported yesterday, political drama The Attorney, starring Song Kang-ho, has clocked up over 8m admissions since its release at a rate faster than Avatar, the all-time hit at the Korean box office.

Director Lee Sujin’s feature debut Han Gong-ju premiered at the Busan International Film Festival last October where it won the CGV Movie Collage Award (which gives theatrical release support) and the Citizen Reviewers’ Award. The film also snapped up the Golden Star for best film at the Marrakech International Film Festival.

Han Gong-ju is screening at the Palm Springs fest this week in the New Voices/New Vision section. 

The film is about a neglected 17-year-old girl called Gong-ju (which means “princess” in Korean) who is forced to change schools to get away from a scandal, but whose singing talents eventually get her hunted down.