KIM Jung-geun, born in 1982, is a documentary filmmaker dedicated to social causes. In 2003, he received an offer to make a video on the labor union of the shipyard workers at Hanjin, but it wasn’t until 2009, when he saw the images of the quasi-military repression against the SsangYong Motor Union general strike and plant occupation, that he became determined to give a voice to the Hanjin laborers. He began to follow the struggles of the labor union in 2010, without knowi...More

KIM Jung-geun, born in 1982, is a documentary filmmaker dedicated to social causes. In 2003, he received an offer to make a video on the labor union of the shipyard workers at Hanjin, but it wasn’t until 2009, when he saw the images of the quasi-military repression against the SsangYong Motor Union general strike and plant occupation, that he became determined to give a voice to the Hanjin laborers. He began to follow the struggles of the labor union in 2010, without knowing that it would make the headlines the next year due to a massive dismissal and the major strike that followed. As a result, he made in 2011 a first edit of his footage and released it under the title <Get on the bus> (2012), with a focus on the recent events and the support among the population that materialized through the setting up of a bus to bring sympathizers to the occupied plant. The film won Best Picture at the Indie Docu Festival. KIM didn’t stop there, though, and kept on filming the workers in the following years while also looking back at the history of the union that spanned three decades. The result was <The Island of Shadows> (2014), which received the Grand Prize at the Seoul Independent Film Festival upon its premiere. He recently directed a short documentary, <Nowhere Man>, about a family of Pakistani refugees. Less