Hangul 장재현 McCune–Reischauer Chang Chae-hyŏn | Revised Romanization Jang Jae-hyeon | |
Born 1981 (age 35–36) South Korea Movies The Priests, Maley from India Nominations Blue Dragon Film Award for Best New Director Similar Kim Yoon‑seok, Park So‑dam, Kang Dong‑Won, Soo‑hyang Cho, Kim Ui‑Seong | ||
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."