Cannes acquisitions: I'M A CYBORG, BUT THAT'S OK and ROUGH CUT!

It was a very busy 10 days at the Cannes Film Festival for Evokative, with a lot of screenings and even more meetings. We'll see the pay-off of this over the next weeks and months, but we already have great news for you: ROUGH CUT and I'M A CYBORG, BUT THAT'S OK, both Korean titles, were finally picked up!

Co-written and co-produced by the great KIM Ki-duk, ROUGH CUT (also called A Movie is a Movie) was directed by his protégé, JANG Hoon.
Gang-pae is a mobster who dreams of becoming an actor. Soo-ta is a star actor who tends to have a bit of a bad attitude, especially with his co-stars, who keep getting beaten up on the set. Now nobody wants to work with him and it's threatening his current film's production. A chance encounter brings the two together and Soo-ta convinces Gang-pae to come and play the role of, well, a mobster. Gang-pae agrees with the condition that the film's fight scenes have to be real, no pretend bullshit. The table is set for a movie-within-a-movie that gets reality and fiction muddled-up, delivers great characters and packs the punches.

I'M A CYBORG, BUT THAT'S OK was acclaimed director PARK Chan-wook's last film before THIRST, which was just part of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Young-goon is a girl who’s a bit mentally deranged: she firmly believes she’s a cyborg, see. Refusing to eat “human food” that would bog down her system, she frequently electro-charges herself with a transistor radio thinking that’s the only way to keep her going. That lands her in a mental institution, where she catches the eye of Il-soon, another in-patient who thinks he can steal other people’s soul. But Young-goon’s health is rapidly deteriorating, so Il-soon will have to make her accept her humanity and convince her to eat before she gets a system breakdown. An absolutely original romantic comedy, I'M A CYBORG, BUT THAT'S OK marked a departure from the style of PARK Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy.

Both films will get releases on 35mm prints before their DVD releases, dates will be worked out soon. ROUGH CUT will also be part of the programming of the upcoming New York Asian Film Festival and Fantasia Festival.

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Evokative Films has a brand-new website!

Evokative Films is thrilled to present its brand-new website, still available at www.evokativefilms.com.

The new website now features pages for every film that detail all pertinent information (release dates, credits, synopsis, festival and awards and reviews). The News section keeps the old blog-based version of the website alive in a new context. The Media Room section offers trailers and a selection of downloadable pictures of all films for media use. Finally, the Store section makes it possible for film fans across Canada and the globe to acquire all Evokative Films DVDs and related film products. Every elements of the website are available both in English and French.

Evokative Films, following it innovative mission, is now one of the very few film distribution companies in North America to have its own webstore. The website was designed by Robert McLarty at Philosophy Factory (www.philosophyfactory.ca), an interactive studio based in Toronto. The result was achieved by his creation of a custom-designed web CMS program.

This new website strengthens Evokative Films’ web presence, already well established with a Facebook page (with one of the best fan counts of all films distributors in North America on Facebook) and a Twitter profile.

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