ABOUT
Christina Yoon is an award-winning Korean American writer and director based in Los Angeles whose dramatic and genre work explores trauma, alienation, and identity. As a TV writer, she has written for the Critics Choice Award–winning Pachinko on Apple TV+.
Her original film Motherland earned her Best Director at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, won Best Narrative Short at the Provincetown International Film Festival, received the 2024 Casting Society’s Artios Award for Short Film, and became eligible for the 2024 Academy Awards. Motherland was a Vimeo Staff Pick and a Short of the Week selection. Yoon’s films have screened at numerous Oscar-qualifying festivals including Palm Springs International ShortFest, Hamptons International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, and Rhode Island International Film Festival. Her work has been featured in The Korea Times and on NPR.
Yoon is a fellow of the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Directors Program and a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in Screenwriting and Directing. She has received support from the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Film Foundation and the Caucus Fund, including the Caucus Foundation Gold Circle Award. She has a background in narrative film editing and previously worked in South Korea as a commercial director and 1st AD.
Yoon is currently developing her first feature to direct alongside multiple other feature scripts and TV pilots. She is a member of WGA West and is represented by Brillstein.
MANAGEMENT
Ken Lee / Brillstein
K.Lee@bep-ny.com
LINKS
email: ctinayoon@gmail.com