Category: Arts & Culture

Sofia Cho is a native of South Korea and has worked for Korean and international productions for the past six years as a freelance producer and a videographer. She holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As an artist, she creates the works that are allegorical of our lives. The story belongs to you, or me, or the girl next-door. It happened to nobody yet everybody at the same time. 

Haeyoung Paul Chung is a senior in undergraduate Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He lived in South Korea for 12 years and currently resides in New York as an independent filmmaker. His short film Mercy is written, directed, and edited by Chung, and it deals with a young couple going through the morning of 9/11. He sees himself as a writer-director with an emphasis on good story and believes that all good stories should be made into film. Paul is currently producing for Vivid, a short film he has written and will be directing. 

Hye Mee Na, a Writer/Director/Editor, she immigrated with her family to the United States from South Korea when she was fifteen.

She is deeply interested in exploring the factors that influence the formation of one’s identity and the perception of the “other” in her films, and her ultimate goal as a filmmaker is to make the audience laugh and cry at the same time. In 2015, she graduated from New York University’s prestigious MFA Film program and now works in New York City where she recently finished editing Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s latest feature film, while writing her own feature length screenplay.

Sewi Ryu was born on March 17th 1995, in Seoul, South Korea. She attends the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts to cultivate her interest in filmmaking. Her interest spans across many fields such as film directing, editing, screenwriting, photography, and graphic design. Her most recent short film, Averted Vision, which she directed, produced, and edited, tells a story about a lonely, delusional man who confronts the unbearable truth as he recounts his past marriage. The film is noted for its stylistic visual aesthetics. 

Yereum Kang is originally from South Korea and a New York based composer for film and multimedia. She is also a singer-songwriter and her main instrument is a piano. She attended City College of New York for Music BA and graduated from film scoring master’s program at NYU on May, 2015. She has studied with Mark Suozzo, Michael Patterson, and a Grammy Award nominated jazz trombonist, Alan Ferber for jazz arranging and composition. 

Narim Kim,  a recipient of Alan Menken Award has proven to be a composer of highest caliber in concert classical music, film scoring and songwriting. His concert pieces were read by prominent ensembles such as Penderecki String Quartet and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. His credits as a film composer include My Life In Your Memories (Jung, 2014) screened by KAFFNY and co-composing for Meet Miss Anxiety (Kwak, 2014) which was widely released in Asia. He also worked as a music supervisor for recently-discovered Past and Present in the Cradle of Dixie (Montgomery, 1914) which was screened at Museum of Moving Image. He is currently working on his first songwriting album. 

Sean Shinwon Kim is an internationally recognized composer, producer and performer born in Seoul, South Korea. Long before moving to New York City, Kim was passionate about blending Western classical practices with Korean traditional  music. Kim earned his film scoring master’s degree (M.M.) from New York University under the direction of Dr. Ronald Sadoff. He was recently one of eight participants to be selected for the prestigious SCL mentorship program. Additionally, he has participated in the ASCAP/NYU Buddy Baker’s workshop  and has been honored with awards in several composition competitions. Recently, Kim has contributed to a diverse array of concerts such as the UN 70th anniversary concert with KBS Korean Traditional Orchestra, Lang Lang and Harlem Gospel Choir as well as a Hanryu concert in Washington D.C.  Currently, Kim is working on several films and album projects and is the radio DJ of a program titled ‘Lalala’ on FM 87.7 KRB NY Radio Korea.

Jane Eunsun Lee is a composer for film, multimedia, and musical theatre and is also an arranger and a keyboardist. She earned her Master’s degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University and her Bachelor’s in Music Composition at University of California, Los Angeles. In 2015, she was selected as a composer at BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Workshop and has been participating since. Her musical theatre credits include “In Life and Death” and “Enchanted by a Spell” as a composer and music director. Also, she was a keyboardist for “Wearing Black” the musical at the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival. As a film composer, she did an internship at Sound Mind Music in Hollywood in 2012, where she was an assistant for composer David Ari Leon (“Spider-Man”, “Avengers”  TV series at Marvel) and has scored for various short films since. Her compositions and arrangements have been performed by different groups from Sejong University Faculty Orchestra to Broadway singers at renowned venues such as Joe’s Pub and Laurie Beechman Theatre.