Featured Work
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The Loyalist
Requiem for Herstory
Like Sugar on the tip of my lips
The Unpardonable Night
About
Minji Kang is a cinematic storyteller from South Korea whose work is driven by bold vision and emotionally resonant narratives. She seeks to understand the meaning of existence and the intricate emotional landscapes of family and shared human experiences. Through cinema, she ventures toward the elusive mysteries of life.
She attended Tabor Academy, earned her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University in New York City, where she developed her voice as a writer-director and was a recipient of Columbia's TOMS Scholarship. Her thesis film, The Loyalist, traveled the international festival circuit, receiving multiple accolades including nominations for the Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Female Director and for Best Director and Best Film at the NBCUniversal Short Fest. The screenplay for The Loyalist is featured in Short Film Screenwriting: A Craft Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Austin Bunn at Cornell University.
Since 2005, she has created narrative and experimental works across a range of lengths and formats, including 16mm, 35mm, HD, Virtual Reality (VR). Her creative projects have been selected for Fantastic 7 at the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, Cine Qua Non's Storylines & Script Revision Lab, Busan AFiS, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival's NAFF (Network of Asian Fantastic Films), Let’s CEE (Central and Eastern Europe)Talent Academy, and Berlinale Talents Tokyo. She is a member of the New Asian Producers' Network (NAPNet).
She has always known that choosing the path of an artist would demand patience, perseverance, and a willingness to live with uncertainty. Yet she has never regretted that choice. For her, storytelling is a lifelong pursuit, shaped by the continual experience and reflection that life itself demands. Each passing day reveals something new and precious about being alive, deepening the stories she feels compelled to tell. She continues to write the stories she believes in, with the hope that in time they will find their way into the world.
In the pauses between words, she turns to her century-old violin and bow, letting Bach's melodies speak into the silence.