A short filmmaker since the year 2000, when she made <Eye - Visible or Invisible>, July JUNG, originally JUNG Ju-ri, consistently made short films for a decade, including <The Wind Blows to the Hope> (2006), 2007’s <A Man Under the Influenza>, which was invited to screen at the Busan International Film Festival, <11> in 2008, which went to the Women’s International Film Festival in Chennai, and <A Dog-Came into My Flash> (2010). JUNG studied ...More

A short filmmaker since the year 2000, when she made <Eye - Visible or Invisible>, July JUNG, originally JUNG Ju-ri, consistently made short films for a decade, including <The Wind Blows to the Hope> (2006), 2007’s <A Man Under the Influenza>, which was invited to screen at the Busan International Film Festival, <11> in 2008, which went to the Women’s International Film Festival in Chennai, and <A Dog-Came into My Flash> (2010). JUNG studied visual media arts at Sungkyunkwan University and completed a graduate program at the Korea National University of Arts. During her time at K’Arts, she studied under acclaimed filmmaker LEE Chang-dong, who would become her mentor and help her, along with his producer brother LEE Joon-dong and their production company Pine House Films, to set up her feature length debut. Produced by the brothers and featuring the same cinematographer as LEE”s acclaimed 2010 work <Poetry>, <A Girl at My Door> announced a significant new talent in JUNG, particularly after being invited to screen in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard lineup. In the drama, BAE Doo-na plays a police woman who is transferred to the countryside and begins to strike up an unlikely relationship with a teenager (played by KIM Sae-ron) who is abused by her father (a scene-stealing turn from SONG Sae-byeok). The acclaimed work earned JUNG a number of prizes, including Best First Film from the Stockholm International Film Festival and Best Script from the Wildflower Film Awards.Less