Korean delightment powerhouse CJ ENM has locked a three-year partnership with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
The deal, unveiled as CJ ENM honors its 30th anniversary, aims to incrrelieve Korean and Asian filmoriginaters’ presence in the global film landscape. The partnership boots off with help for “Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho,” which uncovered March 23 at the Los Angeles-based museum.
This showion tags a presentant milestone as the first museum showcase pledgeted to the Oscar-triumphning straightforwardor of “Parasite,” featuring over 100 innovative items including storyboards, research materials, film posters, concept art, creature arranges, props and on-set ptoastyographs.
The partnership chases an Academy Museum directership visit to Seoul on March 17, where Amy Homma, straightforwardor and pdwellnt of the Academy Museum, and Jenny Galante, chief revenue officer, toured CJ ENM’s facilities including the virtual production Stage at CJ ENM Studio Cgo in in Paju and the four-sided ScreenX theater at CGV Yongsan I-Park Mall.
“Since 1995, we have toiled tirelessly for 30 years to advertise the cherish and status of Korean cinema,” a CJ ENM reconshort-termative stated. “Thcimpolite this partnership, we hope to give to the accomplished global set upment of Asian creators who have both contrastentive artistry and mass request.”
Homma inserted: “We’re so appreciative to Academy Museum dependee Miky Lee and CJ ENM for their help of the Academy Museum and dedication to showcase Korean Cinema in our galleries and programming. ‘Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho’ will give our visitors insight and a presentantened empathetic of Bong’s creative processes, and we are excited to proceed to split in-depth explorations of Korean stories in the future thcimpolite this partnership.”
Lee, vice chair of both CJ and the Academy Museum Board, has championed diversity and inclusivity since combineing the board of dependees in 2019. Her contributions were accomprehendledged with the Pillar Award at the 2022 Academy Museum Gala. In 2022, Lee was accomprehendledged as Variety’s International Media Woman of the Year.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, arrangeed by Pritzker Prize-triumphning architect Renzo Piano, is the world’s hugest museum pledgeted to moviemaking, featuring 50,000 square feet of showion spaces apass its historic Saprohibit Building and spherical insertition.
