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Hitchhiking
2004, 35mm, color, 30'30
Dir: CHOI Jin-sung
Keyword: Drama,Fantasy,Romance,Music
Int¡¯l Competition, 23rd Festival Tous Courts (2005, France)
2nd CJ Asian Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)
Lyon Korean Film Festival (2005, France)
2nd Syracuse Int¡¯l Film & Video Festival (2005, USA)
Best Short Film, 3rd Korean Film Award (2004, Korea)
Competition, 30th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004, Korea)
Competition, 4th Daegu Independent Short Film Festival (2004, Korea)
Competition, 3rd Jeju Tmong Film Festival (2004, Korea)
Jury¡¯s Special Mention, Busan Asian Short Film Festival (2004, Korea)
Competition, 3rd Mise-en-scène¡¯s Genre Film Festival (2004, Korea)
It's the first trip together for a couple that has been dating for about six months. To get out of boredom, a guy demands for new kind of excitement from his girlfriend and 'not she' but 'she' ends up 'hitchhiking' himself.
I wanted to unfold a story about 'dating is hell' in a dry, fantasy tale, in showing difficulties in communication and weariness found after six months in a relationship.

CHOI Jin-sung

Born in 1975, Ulsan
        Graduated from graduate school of Sugang UniV., Dept. of Mass Communications
        Independent Film Production ‘Freakshow’

2001  [FuckUmentary] DV 6mm, color, 95min.
           Indie Docu Festival (2001, Korea)
           Excellent Award, Korean Independent Film Festival (2001, Korea)          
           Gwangju Int’l Film Festival (2001, Korea)
           IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2002, Korea)
           Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2002, Korea)
           Human Rights Film Festival (2002, Korea)
2002   [The World Cup of Their Own] DV 6mm, color, 54min.
            Independent Film of the Year Award, Korean Independent Film&Video (2002, Korea)
            Indie Docu Festival (2002, Korea)
            Seoul Int’l Labor Film Festival (2002, Korea)
            IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2003, Korea)
            Korean Independent Film Festival (2003, Korea)
            Singapore Int’l Film Festival (2003, Singapore)
            Taiwan Documentary Film Festival (2003, Taiwan)  
            7th Human Rights Film Festival (2003, Korea)
2002  [Happy Youth healthy Korea] 10min.
            Jungju Int’l Film Festival (2003, Korea)
2003  [Empire, “For Whom Guns Toll?”] 117min (11min.)   
            29th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2003, Korea)
2004  [Hitchhiking] 30'30"
            Int’l Competition, 23rd Festival Tous Courts (2005, France)
            2nd CJ Asian Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)
            Lyon Korean Film Festival (2005, France)
            2nd Syracuse Int’l Film & Video Festival (2005, USA)
            Best Short Film, 3rd Korean Film Award (2004, Korea)
            Competition, 30th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004, Korea)
            Competition, 4th Daegu Independent Short Film Festival (2004, Korea)
            Competition, 3rd Jeju Tmong Film Festival (2004, Korea)
            Jury’s Special Mention, Busan Asian Short Film Festival (2004, Korea)
            Competition, 3rd Mise-en-scène’s Genre Film Festival (2004, Korea)
2004  [Camellia Project, “KIM Chu-ja”] 93min. (26min.), 
            Best Video Film & Special Mention, 21st Turin Int’l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (2006, Italy)
            3rd Prize in Press Award for Best Film, 11th Lyon Asian Film Festival (2005, France)
            24th Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay Int’l Film Festival (2005, USA)
            1st InDpanda Int’l Short Film Festival (2005, Hong Kong)
            Korean Independent Film Special Section, 14th Brisbane Int’l Film Festival (2005, Australia)
            Competition, 17th New Fest-New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival (2005, USA)
            Korean Independent Cinema-New Cinema Reloaded (2005, Japan)
            Wide Angle, 9th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2004, Korea)
            30th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004, Korea)
2005  [Catch Me If You Can!] 15min.
            Seoul Independent Film Festival (2004, Korea)
            Seoul Independent Documentary Festival (2004, Korea)
            Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
2005  [Curry and Rice Story] 7min.
            Busan Universiade for Digital Contents (2005, Korea)
            Christianity Short Film Festival (2006, Korea)
            Digital Moving Image Festival (2008, Korea)
2005  [Erotic Chaos Boy] 78min.
            Wide Angle, 10th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
             Competition, 31st Seoul Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)
            Buenos Aires Int’l Film Festival (2006, the Argentine Republic)
2007  [mellville st.] music video
2008  [The Arctic’s lovers] music video
2009  [My pray] 3min.
            IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum 2008
            Seoul Independent Film Festival
            Seoul Independent Documentary Festival
2010  [Reservoir Dogs Take 1. South-han River] 8min. music video
            Seoul Independent Documentary Festival (2010, Korea)
            New Media Festival in Seoul (2010, Korea)
            Great Short Film Festival (2010, Korea)
            Jeongdongjin Independent Film & Video Film Festival (2010, Korea)
            Seoul Independent Film Festival (2010, Korea)
            Human Rights Film Festival (2011, Korea)
            Green Film Festival in Seoul (2011, Korea)
2011  [Lee-Sang’s Strange Reversible Reaction] 36’40”
            Best Gu-Ae award , 11th Seoul International NewMedia Festival (2011, Korea)
            5th Great Short Film Festival (2011, Korea)
            Butterfly Award, 5th Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (2011, Korea) 
           17th Indiforum, Korean Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2012, Korea)
 

Director/screenwriter: CHOI Jin-sung
Cinematography/lighting: JANG Gun-jae
Editing: KIM Sun-min
Composer: KIM Jang-won
Mixing: KIM Soo-hyun
Recording: KIM Jin-young
Art director: LEE Jin-young

LEE Sun-kyun as Man
KANG Hye-ryun as Woman 1
BAEK Jung-rim as Woman 2