In search of human-non human relationship, HWANG has dedicated herself to making documentaries introspecting industrialized civilization of modern capitalism. She has received numerous awards including the Best Film Award at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Woonpa Award at Busan International Film Festival, Audience Award at Seoul Independent Film Festival, Grand Prize for Environmental Artist from The Kyobo Foundation for Education, and has been invited to v...More

In search of human-non human relationship, HWANG has dedicated herself to making documentaries introspecting industrialized civilization of modern capitalism. She has received numerous awards including the Best Film Award at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Woonpa Award at Busan International Film Festival, Audience Award at Seoul Independent Film Festival, Grand Prize for Environmental Artist from The Kyobo Foundation for Education, and has been invited to various festivals such as International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, France International Environment Film Festival, Japan Earth Vision Festival to name a few, with her “wildlife trilogy”: <Farewell> (2001), a documentary that portrays the life of animals imprisoned and exhibited in the zoo; <Silent Forest> (2004), a road movie that tells about the threats imposed upon wild animals around Dooman River and Baekdoo Mountain in development where humans dare to poach them and eat; and <One day on the Road> (2008) which shows the roadkills often sacrificed by the convenience of human vehicles. Her filmography also includes <An Omnivorous Family’s Dilemma> (2015) which cast light on the life of pigs for the first time in Korea and rasied the issue of factory farming and creophagism. Released in theaters in 2015, it was invited to the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Grand Prize at Seoul Eco Film Festival.Less