ABOUT
Justin is a writer-director whose work focuses on loss, displacement, and our changing relationship with the natural world. Born in South Korea and raised in LA, he has lived and worked across Latin America, Europe, and Asia. His short fiction film Sarajin was selected for the 2023 Indeed x Hillman Grad Rising Voices program and is currently in the festival circuit. His documentary short film White Grass was selected for the 2022 Sundance Ignite program and screened at various festivals and museums around the world including HotDocs in Canada and the MoCA in Busan, South Korea. He is currently developing his first feature.
AWARDS
Sundance Asian American Fellow 2023
Indeed x Hillman Grad Rising Voices Fellow 2023
Sundance Ignite Fellow 2022
U.S. Fulbright to South Korea 2022
Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Fellow 2022
Metrograph Programming Fellow 2021
IFP/Marcie Bloom Fellow 2020
Thomas J. Watson Fellow 2019
Telluride Student Symposium 2017