She started making independent documentaries in 2000 and she directed <We Are Workers or Not?>(2003), <Nogada>(2006) and <Stayed Out Overnight>(2009). <We Are Workers or Not?> won the documentary award at the Fribourg International Film Festival in 2004. <Stayed Out Overnight> depicting the sit-in demonstration of female workers at a retailer was screened at the Busan International Film Festival and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Fes...More
She started making independent documentaries in 2000 and she directed <We Are Workers or Not?>(2003), <Nogada>(2006) and <Stayed Out Overnight>(2009). <We Are Workers or Not?> won the documentary award at the Fribourg International Film Festival in 2004. <Stayed Out Overnight> depicting the sit-in demonstration of female workers at a retailer was screened at the Busan International Film Festival and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Her next documentary <NoGaDa> (2005) was also screened in Busan. In 2009, her work <Stayed Out Overnight>, which also documented disenfranchised workers going on strike, was once again screened in Busan. <SANDA: Surviving>, about a group of middle-aged Korea Telecom workers scraping by, afforded her a fourth straight invite to Busan and picked up the Best Korean Documentary Award at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival.Less
MOVING ON’s YOON Dan-bi Wins Best Director at Korea’s Indie Film Awards ShowKIM Cho-hee’s debut film Lucky Chan-sil (2019) earned the Grand Prize at the 8th Wildflower Film Awards Korea, which were held at the Korea Literature House in Central Seoul on the evening of Friday, May 21. Lucky Chan-sil earned two prizes during the night, with KIM’s leading actress KANG Mal-geum also earning the Best Ne...
The DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival (DMZ DOCS) has issued its call for documentary films for its upcoming 6th festival. The application window will be open until June 20th. DMZ DOCS 2014 aims to introduce recent works from promising documentary filmmakers under the themes of peace, reconciliation and coexistence. The festival has drawn attention for its timely subjects and since...