Sung-Hyung Cho was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1966. She grew up in Seoul and attended the Yon-Sei University where she earned a B.A. in Mass Communication Studies. In 1990 she moved to Marburg, Germany, to begin studying for an M.A. in History of Art, Media Studies, and Philosophy at the Phillipps-University Marburg.

After studying as a postgraduate student in the Department for Theater Film and Media Sciences at the Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt an...More

Sung-Hyung Cho was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1966. She grew up in Seoul and attended the Yon-Sei University where she earned a B.A. in Mass Communication Studies. In 1990 she moved to Marburg, Germany, to begin studying for an M.A. in History of Art, Media Studies, and Philosophy at the Phillipps-University Marburg.

After studying as a postgraduate student in the Department for Theater Film and Media Sciences at the Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and subsequently attending a course on electronic images at Offenbach College of Design in 1999/2000, she began taking her first steps in the film industry, working on documentaries and music videos, as well as working as an assistant editor on the German TV series “Die Kommissarin, Ein Fall für Zwei.”

In 2007, her film “Full Metal Village” was a run-away success at the Berlinale. The documentary was awarded the Hessian Film Award in 2006, as well as the Max Ophüls prize for young filmmakers and the Best Documentary for the Guild of German Art House Cinemas in 2007. She has recently completed work on her latest film “Home from Home”, which will open in cinemas in fall 2009.
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