Pierce Conran Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Pierce Conran
Production
Biography
Pierce Conran is a producer, writer and film industry consultant based in Seoul since 2012. He works with Korean filmmakers and production companies to develop film and television projects with international and cross-cultural appeal. Alongside his production work, he produces Blu-rays for premium home video labels including Arrow Films, Radiance Films and Second Sight Films, and works as a film critic for the South China Morning Post and Screen Anarchy. He also serves as a programming advisor for Fantastic Fest and works as a freelance Korean script translator. Previously, Conran was an editor at the Korean Film Council’s industry portal KoBiz and an acquisitions and development advisor for the American production company XYZ Films. Through 2Mr Films he produced several films with independent filmmaker Lee Sang-woo, and more recently produced the Korea-set short film Idols, the first project from Piky Pictures. In 2023 he published his first book, the collection of personal essays Pierce Is in a Pickle, released in Korea by Maum Sanchek. He appears regularly on Korean television and radio and occasionally performs in films, television series and variety shows. He also serves as an advisor to the Asian Film Awards and the Wildflower Film Awards Korea.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Killing Romance
Hwang Yeo-rae, a once-popular actress, faces a turbulent marriage and yearns for her old career. When she moves in next to Kim Beom-woo, her biggest fan, a desperate plan to regain her freedom and revive her career unfolds.
Walking Street
Tae-seong (Baek Seong-hyeon), who dreamt of a fancy life as a martial arts fighter, goes to Thailand with his brother Tae-gi (Lee Si-gang) who has no hopes or dreams and causes trouble wherever he goes. On Working Street where there are drugs and prostitutes, they meet Jenna (Lee Song-i) and their lives turn upside down. Escape, roam and sex...the passion of youth erupts!
Juror 8
Seoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently conclusive evidence.
The First Shot
Jo Dal-hwan plays Lee Ho-yeon, a salesman from a pharmaceutical company who is very people-shy.
Peninsula
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.
Humint
A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.
Production
Dear Dictator
Bukseong, Youngrim and Woosuck are dropouts living in a shanty town. One day, a spy from North Korea begins video-recording their hardscrabble lives. A complicated series of events happens between them.
Dirty Romance
A tale of an unconventional and illicit romance between a boy and girl suffering from handicaps.
I Am Trash
Three grown sons have struggled to achieve some sort of normal routine after their father was sent off to prison for sexual assault on an underaged girl. Their lives are thrown into radical disarray when dad finishes his time and returns to the family home. The fact that the victim’s father is awaiting the return outside their door with a knife is certainly not any help to their situation... but it’s not like things are going so well otherwise, with the three sons, a virtual compendium of sexual dysfunctions in their own right.
The Chronicles of a Boy: Homophobia
Young-taek is a high school student. One day, a boy visits his house. It turns out that this boy is his father's lover. He can't believe that his father is gay but eventually accepts the fact. After he graduates from high school and attends university, he meets a senior classmate who becomes being in love with him. The senior classmate harasses him in the name of love. After he goes to serve in the army, he is sexually harassed by his sergeant who has a girlfriend. Young-taek has been homophobic, but after meeting different people, he reconsiders life and love.
Deathcember
Advent – a time of joyful anticipation. You will surely remember the feeling you had as a child, waking up on the first December morning. Rising early, ready to open a new door for 24 consecutive days.
Tropical Night
Jae Hee and his brother Tae Kyung live quietly in Pattaya. They are one day visited by Min Ki, whose brother Min Hoon, committed suicide while on military leave. Convinced that Jae Hee is responsible, Min Ki comes to realize that Jae Hee was deeply in love with his brother, and grows fond of him. The buds of love then gradually sprout in the dreamy tropical night.
The Cemetery of Sisters
In a remote village, a guest house managed by two sisters Song-hwa and Mi-ran is always quiet. One summer day, a group of four guys who were grave robbers were tied up to the house... After that day, Song-hwa's knife only got sharper. Meanwhile, Mi-ran feels love for Young-taek, but it only brought bloody red cries and death! Will the sun still be able to rise for these men?
Pervert Boy
Four brothers and the inevitable clash between their lives in modern day Seoul.
Idols
a wannabe kpop idol meets her famous lookalike.
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