Byun Young-joo

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Byun Young-joo

Directing 59 December 20, 1966

Seoul, South Korea

She is a founding member of the women's feminist film collective "Bariteo," which was established in 1989. She worked as a cinematographer on Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name (d…

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She is a founding member of the women's feminist film collective "Bariteo," which was established in 1989. She worked as a cinematographer on Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name (dir. Kim So-young, 1989), a short film about gender discrimination at work, and My Children (dir. Doe Sung-hee, 1990), a documentary film about childcare in a poor neighborhood. Her first documentary Women Being in Asia (1993) centers on the sex trade in Asia, particularly the sex tourism of Jeju Island.

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  1. 2025
    Queen Mantis

    TV show Director

  2. 2024
    Black Out

    TV show Director

  3. 2022
    Behind Every Star

    TV show Self

  4. 2022
  5. 2021
  6. 2019
    Modern Korea

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  7. 2018
    Movie Room

    TV show Self

  8. 2012
  9. 2012
    Helpless

    Movie Director

  10. 2007
    Women Behind the Camera

    Movie Self

  11. 2007
  12. 2004
    Flying Boys

    Movie Director

  13. 2004
    Repatriation

    Movie Director of Photography

  14. 2002
    Ardor

    Movie Screenplay

  15. 2002
    Keeping the Vision Alive

    Movie Herself

  16. 2001
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  1. 2000
    My Own Breathing

    Movie Director

  2. 1997
    Habitual Sadness

    Movie Director

  3. 1995
    The Murmuring

    Movie Director

  4. 1993
    A Woman Being in Asia

    Movie Editor

  5. 1989
  6. A Mark Against Thee

    Movie Director