Jang Jae-hyun

This is a Korean name; the family name is Jang.

Jang Jae-hyun
Born	1981 (age 42–43) South Korea
Alma mater	Sungkyunkwan University Korea National University of Arts
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	장재현
Revised Romanization	Jang Jae-hyeon
McCune–Reischauer	Chang Chae-hyŏn

Jang Jae-hyun (born 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Jang served as an assistant director on the blockbuster period drama Masquerade (2012) before breaking out with the short 12th Assistant Deacon (2014) which won Best Film in The Extreme Nightmare section at the 13th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, and Best Director Award (Korean Competition For Shorts) at the 15th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2014. Based on the award-winning short, he made his first feature film The Priests (2015) - a supernatural mystery thriller, which was a hit with more than 5.4 million admissions. Jang said ... "I got a weird feeling when I saw a priest waiting anxiously for someone on the other side of a fast food restaurant window. The Priests started then."

Filmography

• Maley from India (short film, 2009) - director
• Bus (short film, 2010) - director
• Themselves (2011) - assistant director, script editor
• S.I.U. (2011) - assistant director
• Masquerade (2012) - assistant director, actor
• 12th Assistant Deacon (short film, 2014) - director, screenwriter
• The Priests (2015) - director, screenwriter

Awards

• 2014 15th Jeonju International Film Festival: Best Director Award (12th Assistant Deacon)

External links

• Jang Jae-hyun at the Korean Movie Database
• Jang Jae-hyun at the Internet Movie Database
• Jang Jae-hyun at HanCinema