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With eight nominations and two awards, Jerome Yoo‘s first feature, “Mongrels,” made a splash on the international film festival scene. Of these are notable: he took home the Emerging Canadian Director award at the film’s world premiere in the director’s homeground, the Vancouver International Film Festival, and won the coveted Fipresci prize at the 2024 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival just a few months later. “Mongrels” is now making its rounds on the festival circuit back in North America, with its upcoming screening at CAAMFest 2025. In this heartfelt Korean immigrant tale, Yoo captures a cutting portrait of a family drunk with grief.

“Mongrels” is split into three parts, each following the family members’ point of view. Here, Sonny (Jae-hyun Kim) drags his children, Hajoon (Da-nu Nam) and Hana (Sein Jin) from the verdant forests of Korea to the golden wheat fields of Canada. In this foreign land, Sonny hunts feral dogs,...

UK-France sales outfit Alief has acquired international sales rights to Jerome Yoo’s Korean immigration drama Mongrelsahead of the European Film Market.

The debut feature had its international premiere at Tallinn Black Nights where it picked up both the Fipresci prize and a special jury award for its cast in the first feature competition.

The film is about a widowed father who emigrates to Canada from Korea with his children but struggles to fit in with the community, instead finding solace with the local dogs. Yoo also wrote the screenplay which incorporates both Korean and English language.

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Netflix’s Xo, Kitty has finally landed to fill the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before shaped hole in our hearts, and it has us all hooked.

In October 2021, Netflix announced its plans to release a spinoff show focused on the world’s favorite matchmaker and the youngest Covey sister, Kitty (Anna Cathcart). The 10-episode spinoff, which was co-written by To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han, who also serves as a co-showrunner and executive producer on the show, takes place four years after To All the Boys: Always and Forever ageing up 12-year-old Kitty to a 16-year-old.

Kitty’s spinoff show takes the To All the Boys franchise international as Kitty moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, Dae (Minyeong Choi), at the elite Korean Independent School of Seoul, also known as Kiss, but things don’t go as smoothly as...