'Fast Lives' Director Celine Song to Visit Korea on 28th Ahead of Oscars

Director Celine Song is scheduled to visit Korea on the 28th ahead of the domestic release of the film 'Past Lives,' CJ ENM announced on the 13th.

Director Song will come to Korea to promote 'Past Lives,' which will be released domestically on the 6th of next month. She will attend press conferences, interviews, GV (talks with the audience), and stage greetings over two days on the 28th and 29th. Actor Yoo Tae-oh, who is currently filming overseas, will also return to Korea to participate in the promotion.

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'Past Lives' has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the upcoming Academy Awards (Oscars) next month. Recently, Celine Song became the first Korean-American director to win the Best Director award (Feature Film category) at the 76th Directors Guild of America Awards (DGA Awards), bringing her closer to the Oscars. The film has also been receiving attention locally by sweeping trophies such as the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture and the Gotham Awards for Best Feature. Director Song expressed her thoughts, saying, "The best way to honor this incredible recognition for my first film is to promise to continue directing films with my best effort for as long as possible."

Co-invested and distributed by CJ ENM and the American Hollywood studio A24, 'Past Lives' is a film that tells the fateful story over two days of Na-young and Hae-sung, first loves who spent their childhood in Seoul and reunite in New York after 24 years, reflecting on their fragile yet enduring connection. Greta Lee, who appeared in the Netflix series 'The Recruit,' plays Na-young, and Yoo Tae-oh portrays Hae-sung, who comes to the U.S. searching for his first love Na-young.

Meanwhile, Director Celine Song is also well known as the daughter of director Song Neung-han, who directed films such as 'Number 3' (1997). She was born and raised in Korea before moving to Canada with her family at the age of 12.

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