Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho studied sociology at the Yonsei University and graduated from the Korean Film Academy. By 1995 he made three short films: Memories in My Frame, White Man and Incoherence. He wrote and directed his first feature, Barking Dogs Never Bite, which won a FIPRESCI Award at the Hong Kong Film Festival in 2001. His second feature, Memories of Murder, won the Silver Shell award for the best director in San Sebastian Film Festival in 2003. In 2006 his third feature film, The Host, achieved significant box office success both domestically and internationally and was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Mother, which he co-wrote and directed, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Also nominated, Park Eun-kyo graduated in 2004 from Korea National University of Arts, majoring in filmmaking. She adapted the screenplay for the feature film Kitchen (2006) and wrote Crush and Blush (2007). She also filmed The Making of Shaking Tokyo, a featurette about the making of the 2009 omnibus film, Shaking Tokyo. Bong Joon-ho was one of the directors in the project alongside Leo Carax and Michel Gondry.
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.
