One building. One night. One body. Nobody to blame. After a foreign escort accidentally kills a client, the workers of an illegal prostitution ring scramble to hide the body, silence witnesses, and survive the night before their feared boss discovers the truth. A contained black comedy thriller about people at the bottom of a criminal hierarchy scrambling to survive one catastrophically mismanaged night.
“This is a workplace comedy with a body in the room. The body is manageable. Responsibility is not. Like a stage farce, the room keeps filling and the exits keep closing.” Koo Jaho, Film Director
Project Mission
Mandalay Productions is proud to support “We’ve Done Something Awful” through Creative Producer Hunter Cole Finley, who will serve as a lead producer alongside writer-director Koo Jaho and an experienced international creative team. At Mandalay Productions, Hunter has contributed to projects including the award-winning feature Unbroken Ties (Myittar) and the GFATT International Music Video, bringing together creative development, production, and cross-cultural storytelling. His broader experience includes four years as a Creative Producer with the Google TV team, collaborating with more than 40 global content studios across eight markets. A Chapman University Film Production graduate and longtime classmate of Jaho, Hunter brings both an established creative partnership and an international production perspective to the project.
“We’ve Done Something Awful” brings together a lean senior team with a proven history of working together. Jaho, Hunter, and producer Paul Jongmin Jung share roots in the Chapman filmmaking community, while Jaho, Paul, and Minyoung previously collaborated on English Tutor (2023), which received the Jury Award at the 30th Austin Film Festival. Paul brings three consecutive years of work represented at Fantasia, while Jaho is a Fantasia and BIFAN alumnus whose professional credits include assistant-directing work on Hope, Beef Season 2, and Pachinko Season 2. With “We’ve Done Something Awful,” the team is building a privately financed, end-to-end production without dependence on public funding or grant calendars—creating the flexibility to move decisively from a completed screenplay into production while bringing a Burmese lead into an internationally experienced Korean-genre filmmaking pipeline.
