Born in 1961, industry veteran PARK Ki-yong made the short film <Winter Story> in 1986, before moving on to his first feature <Gwang> in 1990. He was next a screenwriter for 1991’s <Han Hee-Jak's Love Stories> before turning to investment for PARK Kwang-su’s <To the Starry Island> (1993). His major break as a director came in 1997 with <Motel Cactus>, which was invited to screen at the 2nd Busan International Film Festival. Even more widely a...More

Born in 1961, industry veteran PARK Ki-yong made the short film <Winter Story> in 1986, before moving on to his first feature <Gwang> in 1990. He was next a screenwriter for 1991’s <Han Hee-Jak's Love Stories> before turning to investment for PARK Kwang-su’s <To the Starry Island> (1993). His major break as a director came in 1997 with <Motel Cactus>, which was invited to screen at the 2nd Busan International Film Festival. Even more widely acclaimed was his 2002 lo-fi black and white indie <Camel(s)>. The film screened widely around the world at the Berlin, Toronto, Fribourg, Singapore, and London International Film Festivals. Later, as a member of the faculty at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), he was involved with producing many of their feature length graduation projects, such as <End of Animal> (2010) and <Bleak Night> (2010). PARK also served as the director of the Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival, which came to an end in 2012. As a filmmaker, PARK made a move to documentaries, starting with <Moving> in 2011, which screened at the Jeonju and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. Two years, his documentary on the lives of immigrants, <Garibong>, was selected for the Jeonju and Vancouver International Film Festivals. He also became part of the faculty at the Dankook University Graduate School of Cinematic Content, which was responsible for the award-winning <10 Minutes>, among other student feature-length indies. PARK returned to Jeonju with his third documentary <Yanji> in 2015. Less