Peafowl

Feature showcase

BYUN Sung-bin | 2022 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 114min 15sec (E)

SYNOPSIS

Myung is a transgender who cut ties with her hometown and her father, a Korean traditional performer, because of who she is. Now, all she needs is the surgery but the only way to earn money, by winning the Waacking dance competition, doesn’t go well. On that day, she receives a call that her father passed away and Myung finds out that her father left a will that he would give her the legacy if she performs Drum Dance during the memorial ceremony on the 49th day after his death. With no choice left, Myung goes back to her hometown to perform according to her father’s will.

DIRECTING INTENTION

It seems to take a lot of energy to understand someone, because it requires the effort to know the context of their situation and connect their pain to my own experience. So we can’t seem to easily start that effort to try and understand someone. It takes a lot to do that. But once we understand each other, anger subsides and wounds heal, making it possible for us to join hands again. I made this film to break down that very wall between us.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2022 Busan International Film Festival / Watcha Award
2022 Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival
2022 JeonBuk Independent Film Festival
2022 Women's Film Festival in Gwangju
2022 Seoul Dance Film Festival

DIRECTOR
BYUN Sung-bin

BYUN Sung-bin

2015 The Chicken of Wuzuh
2019 Hands and Wings
2020 God’s Daughter Dances

STAFF

Director BYUN Sung-bin
Executive Producers BYUN Sung-bin, YOON Suk-chan
Producers BONG Su-ji, BAE Sun-ok
Screenwriter BYUN Sung-bin
Cinematographers Sloane Hae-in KIM
Lighting KIM Gwang-min
Editor LEE Young-hoo
Music CASEPEAT
Art Director RYU Hyun-ah
Sound Design KIM Pil-soo, CHUNG Min-joo
Recording HAN Dong-hoon, HAM Cheol-hun
Costume Design JUNG Boo-ja
Make-up and Hair Artist KIM Da-yeon
Cast Hae-Jun, KIM U-gyeom, GONG Jae-hyun, KIM Jin-soo, HWANG Jeong-min, KI Ju-bong