Director

Kim Jin-yeol

Directing

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 1582540

Known for: Directing

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2005 - 2025

Years active: 21

Also known as

김진열 • Kim Jin-yeoul • KIM Jinyeul

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Biography

In 1998, Kim Jin-yeoul began producing documentary films with Handicapped Woman Kim Jin-ok′s Marriage Story (1999), which recorded the marriage of a disabled woman. Later, she won New Documentarist Award at the Seoul International Documentary Video & Film Festival with her private documentary Land to Make Rice (2000). She directed several documentaries including Forgotten Warriors (2004), the story of Park Soonja, a female North Korean partisan during the Korean War, Jin-Ok Sister Goes to School (2007), the sequel of Handicapped Woman Kim Jin-ok′s Marriage Story, and Cruel State (2015), which recorded the truth commission activities of the bereaved families of the Sewol Ferry Disaster.

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