So-yong Kim

So Yong Kim (b. 1968, Pusan, South Korea) came to the United States in 1979, and her education involves studied in fine art and video art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2003 she and Bradley Rust Gray cofounded Soandbrad productions, where they created her films, as well as Gray’s movie Salt, screened at Karlovy Vary in 2003. After several shorts, she debuted with In Between Days (2006), for which she won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale and the Special Jury Prize at Sundance. The movie also screened at KVIFF in the Forum of Independents. Likewise, her next pictures Treeless Mountain (2008) and For Ellen (2012) competed at the Sundance festival and screened elsewhere, including Berlin’s Forum section.

47. MFF Karlovy Vary