Lee Suk-gyung

Birth : 1964-01-29,

History

Majoring in women’s studies, LEE Suk-gyung worked as a feminist planner in art and culture, and also worked as a broadcaster and publisher. At the age of 45, she enrolled in Korean Academy of Film Arts and started her career as a film director. Her first feature film The Day After received the NETPAC award at Berlin Film Festival 2009, and her feature-length documentary Wandering Stars won the Ock Rang Award at the 13th Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. She planned and co-produced the omnibus film What to Say with other female directors. Working on both documentary and feature film, she is carrying on feminist filmmaking.

Movies

A Corner Shop
A Corner Shop
Director
Picnic Cat is a social enterprise that makes and delivers lunchbox meals. It was set up eight years ago by resource-strapped youngsters and grownups to help young people who have opted out of the basic education system. From a small shop making monthly revenues of less than 10 million Korean Won in the spring of 2014, the business grew its revenue to more than 50 million Won in three years. What was happening to the folks working in Picnic Cat in those years? A Corner Shop is the story of how the individuals working in Picnic Cat oscillated between livelihood and humanhood as their shop grew up with them.
A Police Box
A Police Box
Director
A drunken man and a woman battered by her husband, and her husband gather and make a fuss in the police substation. A young policeman who just broke up with his girlfriend cannot afford to listen to the drunken man. A middle-aged policeman is confused while inquiring the battered wife and her husband who can't understand why his wife left him. The police substation is lit up like a lighthouse at the corner of the city people are confined in, and the wave of the people's episodes flows like a river.
The Day After
The Day After
Editor
A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.
The Day After
The Day After
Screenplay
A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.
The Day After
The Day After
Director
A divorcee reevaluates her life after a chance meeting with another woman with a similar history.