Two Korean actresses, Song Hye Kyo and Jeon Do Yeon, will be going to the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival in France this year.
Actress Song Hye Kyo will go in to promote her film "The Crossing," which is set in 1940s China. Song Hye Kyo, her co-star actress Zhang Ziyi and the film's director Oh Woo Sang will attend a press conference for the film on May 17. Interviews by international media will follow on the 18th.
Song Hye Kyo's agency, UAA, says they do not yet know the actress' full festival schedule beyond the press conference.
It's not the first time that the actress attended the festival for the same film, as she made a surprise appearance at a previous press conference in 2008. At that time, the film was called "1949." The film was postponed several times in the last six years and is currently undergoing one last edit before its screening.
"The Crossing" is scheduled to hit theaters in November. Song Hye Kyo also appears in the 2014 film "My Palpitating Life. That film tells the story of a young couple who have a child with a degenerative disease.
Korean actress, Jeon Do Yeon will attend the festival because she has been asked to serve as a judge on the main competition jury.
She is the second Korean to sit on the festival's nine-member panel and the first Korean actress. The first Korean to serve was filmmaker Lee Chang Dong. He directed the film "Secret Sunshine," which Jeon Do Yeon starred in. Her work in that film won her the festival's Best Actress honor.
Jane Campion, who won the Palme d'Or in 1993 for her film "The Piano,' will direct the team. Also on the team are filmmaker Sofia Coppola, who directed "Lost in Translation," Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, Mexican filmmaker Gael Garcia Bernal, American actor Willem Dafoe and Danish director and producer Nicolas Winding Refn.
Jeon began her career working on k-dramas in the early 90s then transitioned to film. She made her film debut in 1997 starring in the romance "The Contact." It became the second biggest grossing Korean film that year. Her best-known work is playing an HIV-positive prostitute in "Secret Sunshine," the film she won a Cannes film festival award for. She also starred in the melodramatic thriller "The Housemaid" which was shown in Cannes in 2010. This year she appears as a blind Joseon-era swordswoman in the film "Memories of the Sword" with Lee Byung Hun and Kim Go Eun.
The festival runs from May 15 to 25.
