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Hong Eui-jeong (born 1982) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer. She has won the Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best New Director, Best New Director at the
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for her feature directorial debut in
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'' Voice of Silence'' (2020).


Career

Born in 1982, Hong Eui-jeong grew up in a remote rural area of Chungcheong Province, South Korea. She graduated from the
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in
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in 2005. She spent around 2 years serving as camera operator, cinematographer, producer and assistant director for commercials and music videos before studying at the London Film School. After she graduated as a cinematographer in 2011, she stayed and worked in
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for a few more years, making several short films and commercials. Working as a
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in short ''Hot & Bothered'', the film won Best Shorts at
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's Creative Climate Short Film Competition Award of Excellence in 2012. In 2016, Hong wrote and directed
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short film ''Better Than Tomorrow''. The film, which portrays a man searching for his wife in a mysterious rehabilitation facility after being frozen for many years, won Best Student Film at London Short Film Festival. That same year, her screenplay ''Without a Sound'' was selected as one of the top 12 projects at
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Collage-Cinema 2016/2017, and shortlisted for Sundance Screenwriters Lab with working title ''Without a Trace''. The following year, Hong and BAFTA winning producer Afolabi Kuti developed the screenplay to a
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. She next released her short ''Habitat''. A story which is set in the near future where South and
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have been reunified, the film was premiered at the 2018
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. In 2020 Hong released her feature debut '' Voice of Silence'', which was based on the screenplay ''Without a Sound'', starring
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. It tells a story of two clean-up crew for a crime organization who receive an order to take care of an eleven-year-old kidnapped girl. Prior to the release, the film was screened at the
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in June 2020. It was also screened at various film festivals, such as the Glasgow Film Festival,
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, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, and
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in 2021. The film was critically acclaimed. Rouven Linnarz from ''Asian Movie Pulse'' wrote, "Hong Eui-jeong has created an ambitious piece of work, whose cast and aesthetics are just two aspects within a story that offers a rich, but also grim social subtext". Nikki Baughan from '' Screen International'' called it, "a remarkable first feature from a talented new director who, one hopes, is only just beginning to find her own voice", and "a beautifully executed thriller which would be an impressive piece of work for any filmmaker, let alone one making her feature debut". Jennie Kermode of ''Eye of Film'' was similarly positive and wrote, "Hong Eui-jeong directs with such assurance and such flair that it's hard to believe this is her first feature", and concluded, "''Voice Of Silence'' will horrify you, charm you, make you laugh, thrill you and leave you on the brink of tears. This is the kind of work that cinema was invented for." Nick Allen of Roger Ebert wrote in his Fantasia review, " ..an impressive feat far more nuanced than Hollywood would ever dare without making it a jokey affair", and " ..Hong is confident, and wholly trusting the audience does not see black and white". For her first feature film ''Voice of Silence'', Hong earned Best New Director at the 41st Blue Dragon Film Awards and
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, respectively. She also won Best New Director awards at the 30th Buil Film Awards,
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, and 41st
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, and the film won Cheval Noir Award for Best Feature (Best Film) at the 2021
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Filmography


Film


Commercial and music video

* ''It's Rising Again'', Music Video, UK 2013 (writer/director) * ''Step Back (
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Awards and nominations


References


External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hong, Eui-jeong 1982 births Living people South Korean film directors South Korean screenwriters South Korean women film directors Women screenwriters South Korean film producers South Korean women film producers Korea National University of Arts alumni Alumni of the London Film School Best New Director Asian Film Award winners Best Director Paeksang Arts Award (film) winners