Jung Joo-ri (born 1980), also known as July Jung, is a South Korean

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

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. Jung's directorial debut feature ''

A Girl at My Door ''A Girl at My Door'' (; lit. “Do-Hee”) is a 2014 South Korean drama film directed by July Jung and stars Bae Doona as a policewoman who takes in an abused girl played by Kim Sae-ron. The film screened in the Un Certain Regard section at th ...

'' won the Best First Film at the 25th Stockholm International Film Festival. She also won the Best New Director at the 23rd Buil Film Awards and Best Director/Screenwriter at the 15th Women in Film Korea Awards in 2014, and Best Screenplay at the 2nd Wildflower Film Awards and Best New Director for film at the

51st Baeksang Arts Awards The 51st Baeksang Arts Awards () ceremony was held at Kyung Hee University's Grand Peace Hall in Seoul on May 26, 2015. It was aired live on JTBC and was hosted by Shin Dong-yup, Kim Ah-joong and Joo Won. Organised by '' Ilgan Sports'', it is S ...

in 2015.

Filmography

*''The Wind Blows to the Hope'' (

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, 2006) - director, screenwriter, editor, art director *''A Man Under the Influenza'' (short film, 2007) - director, screenwriter, producer, editor *''11'' (short film, 2008) - director, screenwriter *''Let Us Go'' (short film, 2008) - assistant director *''The Stopless Mind'' (short film, 2009) - assistant director *''A Dog Came into My Flash'' (short film, 2010) - director *''

'' (2014) - director, screenwriter *'' Next Sohee'' (2022) - director, screenwriter

Awards

*2014 23rd

Buil Film Awards The Buil Film Awards () is a South Korean film awards ceremony hosted by the ''Busan Ilbo'' newspaper. It began in 1958 as one of the earliest film awards in the country. During the 1950s and 1960s, it was the biggest film awards event in the B ...

: Best New Director (''

'') *2014 15th Women in Film Korea Awards: Best Director/Screenwriter (''

'') *2015 2nd

Wildflower Film Awards The Wildflower Film Awards () is an awards ceremony recognizing the achievements of Korean independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist ...

: Best Screenplay (''

'') *2015 51st

Baeksang Arts Awards The Baeksang Arts Awards (), also known as the Paeksang Arts Awards, are awards for excellence in film, television and theatre in South Korea. The awards were first introduced in 1965 by Chang Key-young, the founder of the Hankook Ilbo newspap ...

: Best New Director (Film) (''

'') *2022 26th

Fantasia International Film Festival Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, and Fant-Asia) is a film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. Regularly held in July of each year, it is valued by both hardcore ...

: Best Director ('' Next Sohee'') *2023 59th

: Best Screenplay and

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Impact Award ('' Next Sohee'')

References

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* * * * 1980 births Living people South Korean film directors South Korean women film directors South Korean screenwriters {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub