Steven Yeun attends Sundance with new sci-fi romance film ‘Love Me’

(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Mina Lim = Korean actor Steven Yeun, who recently won the Golden Globe Award and the Emmy Award, visited the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the United States, with a new film along with Hollywood star Kristen Stewart.

The Associated Press and Deadline, an American entertainment media outlet, reported that Steven Yeun and Kristen Stewart attended the second day of the Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah on the 19th (local time).

They are the lead actors of the science fiction romance film ‘Love Me’, directed by Sam and Andy, and attended the film’s first screening to greet the audience.

According to the film festival website, this film tells the story of a smart buoy and a satellite meeting online and falling in love after humanity becomes extinct. Explores the mysteries of existence and consciousness through a love story spanning a billion years.

Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun live different lives in the play and explore love and friendship in unique ways through web data and social media stored online.

Local media selected this film as one of the most anticipated films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Entertainment media Variety explained that the reason the industry is paying attention to this film is that “Steven Yeun, who recently won an Emmy, and Stewart form an attractive duo.”

At the same time, he introduced this movie as “a story like the meeting of ‘Wall-E’ and ‘Her”

Steven Yeun swept the Best Actor Award in the Miniseries and TV Movie categories at the Primetime Emmy Awards on the 15th following the Golden Globe Awards on the 7th for his role in the Netflix drama ‘Angry People’.

The Sundance Film Festival, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, opened the day before and runs until the 28th.

At the opening ceremony the previous day, Celine Song, director of ‘Fast Lives’, the most talked-about film of last year’s film festival, received the Vanguard Award given by Acura, the festival’s sponsoring brand. Director Song, who is of Korean descent, moved from Korea to Canada during her childhood and worked as a writer before making her debut with this film.

Director Christopher Nolan, who made a meteoric appearance in Hollywood by winning the best screenplay award for ‘Memento’ at this film festival in 2001, received the ‘Sundance Institute Pioneer Award’ awarded for the first time at this film festival..

Meanwhile, ‘Whiplash’ was selected as the best Sundance Film Festival film of all time, as voted on by over 500 film industry figures.

This was followed by director Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’ (2nd place), Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out'(3rd place), and ‘Memento'(5th place), Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape'(6th place), and Richard Linklater’Before Sunrise'(7th place)·’ Boyhood'(8th place), Alfonso Cuaron’It To Mama’ etc. were in the top 10.

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