Born in Seoul, Park Joo Young, started working in the film industry in 1999. At CINE2000, Cinema Service, and Chungeoram, Park worked in film investment, production, and marketing.
In 2005, she produced Aggressive, the second movie by director Jeong Jae-eun and in director Kang Yi-Kwan’s Juvenile Offender in 2012. She is a cofounder of South Park Film. The company’s first film Juvenile Offender (2012) won Special Jury Prize and Best Actor Award at the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival, the 14th Lino Brocka Grand Prize and Best Actor Award at Cinemanila International Film Festival, 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Children’s Feature Film. The film was also selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
