Kang Jin-a

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Kang Jin-a
Born (1981-08-18) August 18, 1981 (age 42)
South Korea
Occupation(s) Film director
screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul
강진아
Revised Romanization Gang Jin-a
McCune–Reischauer Kang Chin-a

Kang Jin-a (born August 18, 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

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Early life

Kang graduated from Hongik University's Department of Visual Design in 2004. [1]

Career

Kang's work mainly deals with the themes of life and death, including Suicide of the Quadruplets (2008), Be with Me (2009) and Paprika Feast (2011). Her short Be with Me (2009) won the Best Film in A Short Film About Love at the 9th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival in 2010. Her directorial feature debut Dear Dolphin (2013), an exploration of life, love and grief, premiered at the 14th Jeonju International Film Festival and won the CGV Movie Collage Prize. [2] [3] Pierce Conran of Twitch Film praised "Kang's natural ability as both a storyteller and a stylist" but described some elements of the film as derivative, while Derek Elley of Film Business Asia was more critical, stating that it "lacks the wrenching feeling it should have built towards". [4] [5]

Kang's next work after Dear Dolphin, entitled That's Not True, was released in 2015 as part of KT&G Sangsangmadang's "Mag(Magazine) Movie Project: A Woman and A Man", and starred veteran actress Lee Mi-yeon as well as singer Baro. [6]

Filmography

As director/screenwriter

As editor

Trailer

Visual effect

Art direction

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References

  1. ↑ 하수정 [Ha Su-jeong] (5 June 2013). "강진아 감독 '어디가서 감독이라고 하면 놀라던데요'" [Director Kang Jin-a: 'Whenever I say I'm a director, people are surprised']. Newsen. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "KANG Jin-a". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  3. ↑ Conran, Pierce (2 May 2013). "In Focus: Dear Dolphin". Korean Cinema Today. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  4. ↑ Conran, Pierce (7 May 2013). "Jeonju 2013 Review: The Ethereal DEAR DOLPHIN Explores Grief and Guilt". Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Elley, Derek (17 December 2013). "Reviews: Dear Dolphin". Film Business Asia. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  6. ↑ 구하나 [Gu Hana] (25 February 2015). "이미연, 강진아 감독의 단편영화 '그게 아니고'에서 바로와 호흡" [Lee Mi-yeon and Baro in director Kang Jin-a's short film 'That's Not True']. Jung Culture. Retrieved 15 November 2015.


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