New York Asian Film Festival To Open With North American Premiere Of Yeon Sang-ho’s ‘Colony’
EXCLUSIVE: New York Asian Film Festival is celebrating its 25th edition with the North American premiere of Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony as its opening night film.
Yeon’s zombie thriller, which is receiving its world premiere here in Cannes’ Midnight Screenings section, stars Gianna Jun (My Sassy Girl) as a biotechnology professor attending a conference where a terrifying virus breaks out. Korean studio Showbox has already sold the film to more than 120 territories, including Well Go USA for North America.
In addition to screening Colony at NYAFF, Yeon will also present a new 4K restoration of Train To Busan, one of his first films to reinvent the zombie genre, in celebration of the film’s 10th anniversary.
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