Children of Light
TITLE
Children of Light
DIRECTOR
Minkyu Kang
COUNTRY
USA
YEAR
2022
DURATION
21′
GENRE
Fiction
Overview

Children of Light
In the 1960s, a Korean boy (16), kidnapped and assaulted at a juvenile center on a remote island, must escape with his rival to survive.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Minkyu Kang
Minkyu Kang is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and editor based in the United States and South Korea. He received his BA in Film and TV Production at the University of Southern California in 2012 and Film MFA at Columbia University in 2022. After two years of military service in South Korea (2015), he worked in the local Korean film and advertising industry. During that time, he directed/wrote/edited short films, TV commercials, documentaries, and art videos, which have been selected and screened at 50+ international film festivals. Minkyu's most recent short film, Children of Light, won the Grand Prize at the Director's Guild of America & the Focus Features Award for Social and Cultural Impact, NBR Student Grant, and Norman Strauss Prize. It’s also shortlisted for the 2023 BAFTA Student Awards and advanced to the finalist of the 50th annual Student Academy Awards. He works as a freelance filmmaker in Los Angeles, developing a feature script with a leading Korean Film Production company.
Credits
- DirectorMinkyu Kang
- ScreenplayMinkyu Kang
- CinematographyJeongseok Park
- Editing Minkyu Kang
- CastHyo Je Lee, Jung Chul Kim, Myoung Guk Kim, Ki Baek Um, Jun Hyuk Park
- Producer/s Minkyu Kang, Bofan Zhang
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Production Company
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Distributor/s
Specifications
- Project TitleChildren of Light
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date January 1, 2023
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Country of origin
USA -
Country of filming
USA - LanguageKorean
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project Yes

Minkyu Kang
Minkyu Kang is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and editor based in the United States and South Korea. He received his BA in Film and TV Production at the University of Southern California in 2012 and Film MFA at Columbia University in 2022. After two years of military service in South Korea (2015), he worked in the local Korean film and advertising industry. During that time, he directed/wrote/edited short films, TV commercials, documentaries, and art videos, which have been selected and screened at 50+ international film festivals. Minkyu's most recent short film, Children of Light, won the Grand Prize at the Director's Guild of America & the Focus Features Award for Social and Cultural Impact, NBR Student Grant, and Norman Strauss Prize. It’s also shortlisted for the 2023 BAFTA Student Awards and advanced to the finalist of the 50th annual Student Academy Awards. He works as a freelance filmmaker in Los Angeles, developing a feature script with a leading Korean Film Production company.