KIM Bora, born in 1981, graduated from Dongguk University in film and later left Korea for the US in 2007 to do a Master of Fine Arts in Columbia University. After her graduation short film <The Recorder Exam> (2011) won her Best Woman Student Filmmaker for the East Region from the Directors Guild of America, she started working on the script of her debut feature, which would be a follow-up to that film and would be strongly inspired by her own childhood. She then moved...More

KIM Bora, born in 1981, graduated from Dongguk University in film and later left Korea for the US in 2007 to do a Master of Fine Arts in Columbia University. After her graduation short film <The Recorder Exam> (2011) won her Best Woman Student Filmmaker for the East Region from the Directors Guild of America, she started working on the script of her debut feature, which would be a follow-up to that film and would be strongly inspired by her own childhood. She then moved back to Korea and spent several years giving lectures in the colleges where she studied as a way to give back. She became the Korean indie sensation of 2018 when her feature debut and result of seven years if work, <House of Hummingbird>, received the NETPAC Award as well as the KNN Audience Award at the Busan International Film Festival. The film has since been on an extraordinary win-streak as it took home awards from nearly all festivals where it was selected, most notable among them the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Other accolades include the Grand Prix from the Istanbul Film Festival, Best International Narrative Feature from the Tribeca Film Festival, Best Debut Feature at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Prior to that, it was also selected for the IFP Narrative Lab and received postproduction support from Sundance Film Festival.Less