AI Firm Utopai Studios To Co-Produce Silver Bear-Winning Filmmaker Hyo-Joo Yang’s Feature ‘Half Moon’

EXCLUSIVE: AI patient Utopai Studios will co-produce and put successful Half Moon, a characteristic movie from South Korean filmmaker Hyo-joo Yang. 

Half Moon will beryllium Yang’s debut feature. She is champion known for nan short Broken Night, which won nan Silver Bear astatine Berlin successful 2010. 

Half Moon will beryllium co-produced by Germany’s In Good Company and Korea’s Paper Barn Studios, alongside Utopai Studios. Principal photography connected nan task is scheduled to statesman successful Germany successful August. The accumulation squad has said PAI, Utopai Studios’ AI system, will beryllium utilized to “support prime ocular elements successful nan film.”

Written and directed by Yang, nan movie follows Yeri and Ah-Jin, a niece and aunt, who strangers to each other, arsenic they walk a fractured summertime together connected a distant North Sea island. 

The charismatic synopsis continues: “Yeri is isolated astatine schoolhouse and emotionally neglected astatine home. Ah-Jin is surviving successful self-imposed exile, moving arsenic a caregiver while carrying nan beingness and psychological wounds of her past. Over nan people of nan summer, they study to understand and respect each other, and yet judge who they are. The movie explores loneliness, family trauma, belonging, and affectional repair done nan narration betwixt a young woman and nan aunt she hardly knows.” 

The formed includes Rina Kim, Elisa Hofmann, and Ana Kim. Cinematography is by Alexandra Medianikova, whose credits see nan German Film Prize-winning Rå and nan documentary Beyond nan White, for which she was nominated for nan German Cinematography Award.

“Half Moon is simply a communicative astir nan symptom we transportation from childhood, nan group who unexpectedly thatch america really to survive, and nan mini vows we make to support going,” nan said successful a statement. “I wanted to show a communicative that originates pinch alienation, but gradually opens toward compassion and nan anticipation of light, moreover successful nan darkest moments.”