Bradley Rust Gray (born 1971) is an American independent filmmaker known for '' The Exploding Girl'' and ''Jack & Diane''. He made the film ''Salt'' in 2003. He is married to filmmaker

So Yong Kim 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''. So Yong Kim is a recipient of the New York Foundation’s Video Ar ...

, with whom he has frequently collaborated on projects, including being screenwriter for '' Lovesong'' and ''

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''. He has served as editor for many of his and his spouse's works. ''The Exploding Girl'' premiered at the

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in 2009 and was released theatrically in the United States on March 12, 2010.

Film making efforts

Gray and Kim are close collaborators — they produce each other’s work and often write and edit together — and in interviews tend to use the first-person plural in discussing their movies. Gray began in experimental film and moved toward narrative filmmaking while studying at the

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in London. Gray has told interviewers that the strongest part of their collaboration is in the editing. He says he was influenced by Argentine writer

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, especially his folk tales and magical realisms. Gray and Kim have titled several of their movies about songs, and Gray notes that singer

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put out a statement relating to the title of the film ''Jack & Diane''. Gray says "I didn't mean to cause him any offense."

Early life

Gray was born in

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, Ohio, and educated at the

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Personal life

Gray and Kim met at the

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. They have two children.

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