KIM So-hyoung, born in 1992, developed a love for cinema when she was going through difficult times at home and in school and found escapism in movies. Although she had since had a vague desire to make movies, she chose to major in another discipline that she believed would allow her to find a job quickly. Later on, as she still couldn’t get filmmaking out of her mind, she eventually gave in and entered the Korea National University of Arts (K’ARTS). As part of an interna...More

KIM So-hyoung, born in 1992, developed a love for cinema when she was going through difficult times at home and in school and found escapism in movies. Although she had since had a vague desire to make movies, she chose to major in another discipline that she believed would allow her to find a job quickly. Later on, as she still couldn’t get filmmaking out of her mind, she eventually gave in and entered the Korea National University of Arts (K’ARTS). As part of an international exchange program between her school and the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, one of her screenplays was selected and she was offered the opportunity to film it in Japan in summer 2019. The short movie, <Before The Summer Passes> (2019), deals with communication issues between a Korean grandmother and her Japanese grand-daughter. In 2020, KIM managed to pick up two prizes, each for a different works presented at the Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, ie. Best Picture in the A Short Film About Love (melodrama genre) competition for <Before The Summer Passes> (2019) and a Special Jury Mention for <Us, Day and Night> (2020), which was screening in the A City of Sadness (social problem films) section. The latter was her graduation project in which she also starred, about a couple living under the same roof but barely spend any time together due to conflicting working hours.Less