Alumnae Female Filmmakers Lim Sun-ae, Lee Kyung-mi, and Choi Ha-na are Thriving

The narrative films by female directors from the graduate program of the School of Film, TV & Multimedia are captivating the attention of the audience and critics.

The female directors who majored in Filmmaking in K-Arts and hold the limelight are as following: Yoon Ga-eun who filmed The House of Us (2019) and The World of Us (2016), Kim Do-young who won the Best New Film Director at the Baeksang Arts Award with Kim Ji-young: Born 1982 (2019), Yu Eun-jeong who directed Ghost Walk (2019) and won the Audience Award at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, and Lim Sun-ae who receives invitations from film festivals from around the world since gaining recognition at the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival with An Old Lady (2020). The directors from our undergraduate program are also excelling in the field. Recently, alumna Lee Kyung-mi directed a Netflix series, The School Nurse Files (2020), alumni Lee Jong-pil filmed Samjin Company English Class (2020), and alumna Choi Ha-na made More Than Family (2020).

Amid them, Choi Ha-na’s More Than Family is a graduate work for her bachelor’s degree in screenwriting major. The Korean Film Council sponsored and a film production company ATO Inc. participated in film production.