16/07/2009

Rotterdam-based In-soo Productions, headed by producer In-soo Radstake, was awarded funding for the second feature by Netherlands-based U.S. filmmaker Doris Yeung from the Seoul Film Commission. It is the first time a European company receives aid from the commission’s newly established International Co-production Development Fund.

The Fund has taken advantage of the new EU-South Korea co-production treaty that officially went into effect earlier this year. Insoo Productions will receive 18m KRW (about €10,000) for the production of Four Seasons, Doris Yeung’s second feature film.

The grant, which does not have to be paid back, comes with the condition that at least 25% of the film is set in or around the South Korean capital. The Seoul Film Commission’s aim is to promote the city as a filming location.

This commission’s first batch of grants this year went to five features and a documentary, most of them co-productions with Japan.

Yeung’s first feature, the US-produced Motherland, will premiere at Outfest in Los Angeles on July 18. No date has been set for a start on her second feature.

Producer In-Soo Radstake set up his production company in late 2006. He is probably most well known for his feature documentary Made in Korea, which he also directed.