Lee Kwang-mo | |
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| Born | (1961-01-28)28 January 1961 (age 64) |
| Alma mater | Korea University University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation(s) | Executive producer,film director |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 이광모 |
| Revised Romanization | I Gwangmo |
| McCune–Reischauer | I Kwangmo |
Lee Kwang-mo (born 28 January 1961) is a South Korean executive producer andfilm director. He is best known for his first featureSpring in My Hometown (1998) which won numerous awards.[1][2][3]
On January 28, 1961, Lee was born inSouth Korea.
Lee majored in English at theKorea University and graduated from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles in film and television studies in 1988. He has written many shorts and feature screenplays, and lectures at universities and film schools.[4][5][6]
He wrote and directed his first featureSpring in My Hometown (1998) which took 13 years to make. He wrote the screenplay in memory of his father who died while he was studying in the U.S. The script won the first prize in the 1995 Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Competition. The film won numerous awards and was the most critically acclaimed film of the year. It also topped most of the film critics' lists of the year's best features.
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