From mentoring to commercialization, PGK expands its support for rising Korean filmmakers.

The film Our Between Us, which premiered July 30 after screenings at this year’s 24th Jeonju International Film Festival, marks director Seong Ji-hye’s feature debut and was developed through the PGK (Korean Film Producers Association) Creative Talent Incubation Program’s mentoring process in 2021. Mentor Ahn Young-jin, head of Jin Films, continued to participate as a producer after the program ended, and the completed film stands as a fruition of PGK’s ongoing cultivation of creators.

PGK has participated in the ‘Contents Creative Talent Incubation Industry’ program, a creator development initiative run by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency, serving as a steady support for new creators. From 2012 to today, PGK has been selected nine times, achieving the most and longest participation on record in the video sector by platform institutions for six consecutive years, and this year it has taken on an even greater challenge. The program has expanded beyond mentoring for script development to include production and distribution under its ‘Commercialization Support.’

To help creators navigate the daunting path to finalizing a project, PGK’s ‘Commercialization Support’ is introduced. This expansion means the program now covers production and distribution in addition to mentoring, and demonstrates its broader commitment to nurturing emerging filmmakers. Conversations and screenings involving the short films completed by Yoon Moon-sung, Lee Hyo-rim, Jo Hee-su, Pyo Guk-cheong, and Kim Yun-su promise to further fuel creative ambition.