Ryu Jun-yeol made his screen debut in the short film Midnight Sun (2014). He earned critical acclaim for his first feature role in Socialphobia (NYAFF 2015), a Korean Academy of Film Arts feature graduation project. He was hailed as ‘a new talent armed with undisputed acting skills’. The same year, proving his sudden popularity, Ryu emerged as one of the leading characters in the big hit television drama Reply 1988. He then made his breakthrough in 2017, first in the historical film The King, which won him the Best New Actor award in film at the Baeksang Arts Awards, followed by the biopic A Taxi Driver, which became the highest grossing Korean film of the year. In 2018 Ryu’s star continued to rise as he appeared in Little Forest (NYAFF 2018), headlined the crime thriller Believer and starred in Park Noo-ri’s stock market scam thriller Money. He will next be seen in Won Shin-yun’s historical action epic Battle.

Park Noo-ri was an assistant director on Ryoo Seung-wan’s Berlin File (NYAFF 2013) and The Unjust (NYAFF 2013). Money, her directorial debut (and screenplay) is a crime drama based on dangerous stock market scams, portraying a person’s transformation via finance. She explains that money is always a priority in this world, giving people both hope and agony. Although the stock market proved a challenging subject, she believes it was the best way to get her message across. She spent one year commuting every day to the financial district of Yeouido for research, where she would work on the script in coffee shops while observing firsthand the patterns and preoccupations of traders.