ABOUT
Christina Yoon is an award-winning Korean American filmmaker from New York and Atlanta. She was awarded Best Director at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival for her original film "Motherland," which won Best Narrative Short at the Provincetown International Film Festival and became eligible for the 2024 Academy Awards. She is currently a semi-finalist of the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Directors Program. As a writer, she most recently wrote on Apple TV+’s Pachinko. Her work has been featured in The Korea Times and on NPR.
Yoon is a graduate of Columbia University's Screenwriting and Directing MFA program. Her films have screened at numerous Oscar-qualifying festivals including Palm Springs International ShortFest, Hamptons International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, and more. Yoon has been supported by the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Film Foundation, the Caucus Fund grant, and received 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 likes to make dramatic and genre films exploring trauma, alienation, and identity. She is passionate about increasing diverse representation in American film and television, especially through stories that go beyond the immigrant narrative. Yoon is based in Los Angeles and is developing her first feature. She is a member of WGA West.
MANAGEMENT
Ken Lee / Brillstein
K.Lee@bep-ny.com
LINKS
email: ctinayoon@gmail.com