So Yong Kim (born 1968) is a Korean American independent filmmaker.
She has made four feature films: In Between Days, Treeless Mountain,
For Ellen, and Lovesong.She was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1968
and moved to Los Angeles, California to live with her mother at the
age of 12.Kim received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival for her debut feature In Between Days (2007). Loosely
inspired by her own youth, the film was shot in Toronto and mostly
improvised by its teenage cast members, whose awkward, raw romance and
alienation from their surroundings were expressed through intimate
digital photography.Treeless Mountain won the Adelaide Film Festival's
Feature Fiction Award in 2009.
She has made four feature films: In Between Days, Treeless Mountain,
For Ellen, and Lovesong.She was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1968
and moved to Los Angeles, California to live with her mother at the
age of 12.Kim received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival for her debut feature In Between Days (2007). Loosely
inspired by her own youth, the film was shot in Toronto and mostly
improvised by its teenage cast members, whose awkward, raw romance and
alienation from their surroundings were expressed through intimate
digital photography.Treeless Mountain won the Adelaide Film Festival's
Feature Fiction Award in 2009.
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