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Uncut Gem Film Projects

Uncut Gem

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Based in Seoul and Busan, the heart of Asian cinema, Uncut Gem is a production company where screenwriting experts and live-action and AI filmmakers discover stories that are still uncut gems — and take them from development through production to IP distribution. Feature and short film projects the Uncut Gem team is developing or producing. 

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Liminal

Feature · Sci-Fi Drama · In Development

​A homicide detective infiltrates an illegal human-farming facility to save his missing fiancée.

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Hi, Dignitas

Feature · Drama · In Development

​A boy who has fought leukemia for 11 years, and a terminally ill girl who dreams of dying with dignity. Together, they dream of Switzerland.

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Before the Wave

Feature · Drama · In Development

​Se-ri, a 16-year-old violinist, is sent to her grandmother's home in an island village, where she meets Hyun-woo, a Kopino (Korean-Filipino) boy who has won all of her grandmother's love.

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Love Switch

Feature · Survival Thriller · In Development

​On a dating survival show held on a remote island, contestants who fail to match begin dying one by one — and Seoyeon realizes this is a game played with their lives.

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Limbo

Feature · Action Adventure · In Development

​Before a massive UN military operation begins, a high school student slips into the DMZ's forbidden zone to rescue his grandfather, who has dementia.

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Personal Protection

Feature · Action · In Development

​A psychopathic killer holds the only evidence that can explain his fiancée's death. Now a former Navy special forces operative must protect him from a gang boss bent on revenge.

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Tarot

Feature · Mystery Thriller · In Development

​A tarot master returns to his hometown in search of parents who have been unreachable for days, unmasks a serial killer who takes over people's homes, and avenges his family.

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Urban Crawler

Feature · Sci-Fi Action · In Development

​A girl who lost her father and her limbs to a rogue robot climbs into the kind of machine she hates most, becoming a pilot who stops rampaging robots in the city. 

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Deception

Feature · Horror · In Development

​Into the home of a ballerina with a broken ankle come a woman her husband brought back from China and a doll sealed inside a crystal ball. Every time the doll cracks, someone's body breaks in the same shape.

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Soviet Girl

Feature · Horror Thriller · In Development

​A man becomes the Seoul tour guide for a beautiful traveler from Moscow. Show anyone a single card, and they'll do whatever she says. She didn't come to sightsee — she came to kill.

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How & What

Feature · Mystery Thriller · In Development

​The youngest judge in the country, who has never handed down a wrong verdict, receives an anonymous invitation to a remote island. Ten people with nothing in common except having been on a beach in Sokcho ten years ago begin to disappear one by one, just as the nursery rhyme goes.

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​Rabbit Island

Feature · Mystery Thriller · In Development

​Having lost his parents in a fire caused by his younger sibling's mistake, Hyun-su poses as a patient and slips onto an island to bring his sibling back from a psychiatric hospital scheming to seize their inheritance. 

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Psychiatric Ward 8

Feature · Horror · In Development

​​A rookie nurse starts her first job at a rural psychiatric hospital a month before it closes — and learns that the experiments of a doctor believed to have died in a fire are not over.

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Follow X

Feature · Horror · In Development

​When your followers hit zero, you die. After her friend's mysterious death, an influencer becomes the next target of the same account — and goes live to survive.

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Mandela Effect

Feature · Sci-Fi Action Thriller · In Development

​A detective dives into the past to fight an organization that rewrites history for political assassinations — and to bring back the son no one else remembers.

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Limbo (Short)

Short · Fantasy Horror · In Production

​As she dies of cardiac arrest, a coolly rational clinical neuroscientist must solve the clues hidden in her unconscious — inside a dream her own brain has built — to come back to life.

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Time Bomb

Short · Sci-Fi Mystery · In Development

​A lab team lead caught up in a project around a device that creates branch points in time realizes he lost his family at one of those branch points — and fights to get them back.

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Jeanny

Short · Thriller · In Production

​In a rain-soaked forest, a man helps a fallen woman to her feet, telling her they are being chased. A warm wooden house is waiting, he promises. Is it a rescue — or an abduction?

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