Jeon Do-yeon is a South Korean actress. She won Best Actress at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, making her the first Korean actress to win an acting award at Cannes, and Best Performance by an Actress at the 1st Asia Pacific Screen Awards for her performance in Lee Chang-dong's 2007 film Secret Sunshine. Many young actresses have cited Jeon as a role model.
Jeon with co-star Song Kang-ho at Secret Sunshine press conference in 2007.
Jeon at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
Jeon (fifth from the left) with the main competition jury members at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Jeon walking the 2017 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival red carpet.
Lee Chang-dong is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He has directed six feature films: Green Fish (1997), Peppermint Candy (1999), Oasis (2002), Secret Sunshine (2007), Poetry (2010), and Burning (2018). Burning became the first Korean film to make it to the 91st Academy Awards' final nine-film shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film. Burning also won the Fipresci International Critics' Prize at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, Best Foreign Language Film in Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Best Foreign Language Film in Toronto Film Critics Association.
Lee Chang-dong at 2010 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Lee Chang-dong at the French Cinematheque, August 2018