About
BÖC Features is a boutique production company specializing in essay film and experimental documentaries.
[History]
In Development, “Kung Fu Wildstyle” 2019 Produced “Many Undulating Things” 2019 Presented “Murmuring Debris and Leaves Silently Fall” 2019 Participated “Collective City” of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 Participated the exhibition “Tales of Our Time” of Guggenheim New York 2016 Produced “Traces of an Invisible City” 2015 Won Foundation for Broadcast Culture Grant 2014 Won DMZ Documentary Fund 2014 Presented “A Dream Iron” 2012 Found the company in New York metropolitan area
Founder/ Producer Kyungmi Kim
After starting her career in the South Korean film industry during the boom years of ‘New Korean Cinema’, Kyungmi Kim founded BÖC Features, a boutique production company specializing in essay film and experimental documentaries. She has produced award-winning and notable works of the new generation of Asian media artists. The films have screened at the leading art institutions and film festivals around the world, including the Guggenheim in New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Berlin IFF, Toronto IFF, Rotterdam IFF, Busan IFF and many others.
[Selected Filmography] 2023 Producer, “live/leave” by Hey-Yeun Jang 2019 Producer, “Many Undulating Things” by Bo Wang and Pan Lu 2016 Producer, “Traces of an Invisible City” by Bo Wang and Pan Lu 2014 Producer, “A Dream of Iron” by Kelvin Kyung Kun Park 2011 Executive Producer, “Poongsan” by Juhn Jai-hong 2010 Producer, “Chenggyecheon Medley” by Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
[Consulting Service]
2023 Consultant, “Park Chan-wook’s closet picks” for the Criterion Collection 2023 Consultant, “Korean Cinema’s Golden Decade: The 1960’s” co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema 2023 Consultant, Korean Art Forum in New York 2022 Consultant, via MuseWorks, Ltd. for 3 Tony nominees “KPOP” produced by 8 Tony Award winning Producer Joey Parnes and advertised/branded by SPOTCO 2020 Consultant, DVD release of “Memories of Murder” for the Criterion Collection 2020 Consultant, “New Korean Film Series” for the Criterion Channel 2019 Consultant, "Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996–2003,” for Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema
[Curatorial Practice] 2016 Film Curator, Master Series “Park Chan-wook,” “Lee June-ik” for KCCNY with Metrograph and SVA Theater 2010-2016 Film Curator, “Korean Movie Night New York” presented by KCCNY with Asia Society and Tribeca Cinemas
[Awards, Recognitions, collections]
2024 Official collection, Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science of University College London, UK 2019 Nominee Open City Award, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK 2015 Grant winner, Foundation for Broadcast Culture, South Korea 2014 DMZ Documentary Fund winner, DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival, South Korea 2014 NETPAC award winner, Berlin Int’l Film Festival Forum , Germany 2014 Author’s POV award, Taiwan Int’l Documentary Festival, Taiwan, China 2014 Best Documentary award winner, ASIATICA Film Festival, Rome, Italy 2012 Korean entry final list for Oscar’s best foreign film 2012 Grant winner, Korea Radio Promotion Association, South Korea 2011 Winner of FIPRESCI, The Korean Association of Film Critics Awards
