David Cho (director)
| David Cho | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Cho Sung-kyu March 3, 1969 South Korea |
| Alma mater | Yonsei University |
| Occupation |
Film producer, executive producer, director, screenwriter |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 조성규 |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Seong-gyu |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Sŏng-kyu |
Cho Sung-kyu (born March 3, 1969), also known as David Cho, is a South Korean film producer, executive producer, director and screenwriter. Apart from producing and investing in numerous films as CEO of Sponge Entertainment, Cho wrote and directed Second Half (2010), The Heaven Is Only Open to the Single! (2012), The Winter of the Year Was Warm (2012), Santa Barbara (2014), and Planck Constant (2015).
Born in 1969, David Cho first studied History at Yonsei University, then changed his major and graduated with a degree in Mass Communication. He published the film magazine Nega in 1997, then founded the production/distribution company Sponge Entertainment in 2000. As owner and president of Sponge Entertainment, he produced and invested in numerous Korean arthouse films, such as Jang Hoon's Rough Cut, Lee Yoon-ki's My Dear Enemy, Kim Ki-duk's Dream, and E J-yong's Actresses.
In 2010, Cho made his directorial debut with Second Half starring Ryu Seung-soo and Esom, about a beleaguered film producer who meets a waitress in a seaside town and suspects she may be his daughter from a long-ago one-night stand. Cho's second film The Heaven Is Only Open to the Single! (2012) is about a famous actress (played by Choi Yoon-so) who's just been publicly dumped by a comedian and banned by her agency from dating, and an unknown indie musician rejected by a matchmaking service who falls for her onscreen while composing the soundtrack for her film. With a cast of real-life Hongdae musicians led by Lee Neung-ryong of the band Sister's Barbershop, Cho interspersed live musical performances into the film.
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