Byun Young-joo (변영주)

Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Actor, Producer, Editor · Born 1966-12-20 in Seoul · 9 films on KFRAMED, 1993–2012

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.

Director

• Helpless (2012)
• Flying Boys (2004)
• Ardor (2002)
• My Own Breathing (2000)
• Habitual Sadness (1997)
• The Murmuring (1995)
• A Woman Being in Asia (1993)

Writer

• Helpless (2012)
• Ardor (2002)
• The Murmuring (1995)

Cinematographer

• Repatriation (2004)
• My Own Breathing (2000)
• A Woman Being in Asia (1993)

Actor

• Keeping the Vision Alive (2002) as Herself

Producer

• Habitual Sadness (1997)

Editor

• A Woman Being in Asia (1993)