Yoon Ga-eun


Yoon Ga-eun is a South Korean film director and script writer. Her films explore the stories of young children and youth.

Career

Yoon Ga-eun graduated from History Department at Sogang University and continued her graduate studies at the School of Film, TV & Multimedia at Korea National University of Arts.
Her first film as a director is 19 minutes short film The Taste of Salvia introduced in 2009. Beginning with it, she directed several films including Proof, Guest, Sprout, Tabloid Truth and The World of Us.
The first work that she began to make a mark is Guest, a movie perceptively capturing a phase of the growing pains that a pubescent high school girl experience. This film won the grand prix from 34th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2012, which is known as Festival de Cannes of Short films.
Sprout is an adventure story of a little girl who left alone for the first time. Yoon expressed the small change that a little girl face through the steps of discoveries. After Yoon finished Sprout, she said she thought that people would strive all the time to achieve their goal, but there are things that they cannot achieve, no matter how hard they try. She dissolve the meaningful process into the film Sprout.
Yoon is also known for finding new faces. The Korean actress Jung Yeon-ju started her career with Guest, also Kim Su-an was cast by Yoon. Kim was invited to the Festival de Cannes as the youngest actress ever.

Filmography