Unjoo Moon (born 1964) is an Australian film director, best known for
the 2020 biopic I Am Woman, that tells the story of international
feminist icon Helen Reddy.Born in South Korea in 1964 and raised in
Sydney, Moon studied Arts/Law at the University of New South Wales
before working at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a TV and
print journalist. She left journalism to study film at the Australian
Film and Television and Radio School, winning the Kenneth B. Myer
award and meeting her partner, Oscar-winning cinematographer Dion
Beebe. Together they moved to Los Angeles, where Moon attended the
American Film Institute, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts and
receiving the Franklin J Schaffner Directing Award.Moon directed The
Zen of Bennett, a 2012 documentary on jazz singer Tony Bennett,
produced by Bennett's son Danny and Jennifer Lebeau. The New York
Times described it as "a tender, touching documentary portrait†.
the 2020 biopic I Am Woman, that tells the story of international
feminist icon Helen Reddy.Born in South Korea in 1964 and raised in
Sydney, Moon studied Arts/Law at the University of New South Wales
before working at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a TV and
print journalist. She left journalism to study film at the Australian
Film and Television and Radio School, winning the Kenneth B. Myer
award and meeting her partner, Oscar-winning cinematographer Dion
Beebe. Together they moved to Los Angeles, where Moon attended the
American Film Institute, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts and
receiving the Franklin J Schaffner Directing Award.Moon directed The
Zen of Bennett, a 2012 documentary on jazz singer Tony Bennett,
produced by Bennett's son Danny and Jennifer Lebeau. The New York
Times described it as "a tender, touching documentary portrait†.
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