Heyjin Jun

Birth : , Wonju, Gangwon, South Korea

History

Heyjin Jun was born and raised in a part of the Korean countryside where there wasn't a single movie theater. Beginning in third grade, she would spend weekends with her parents volunteering at facilities for the destitute and neglected - playing violin for people who had never heard western classical music, and giving the elderly massages to ease their pain. While spending time with these people, they would tell her their unique and personal stories, often of suffering and struggle. When she came to America at age 21, she was quickly struck by the social impact a single film can have, and started dreaming of telling the stories of people who have been forgotten by the rest of the world. She went on to study at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, which accelerated her experiences in narrative storytelling, and graduated from the program Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. And she received her MFA degree in cinematography from USC School of Cinematic Arts. She is an award winning cinematographer and a recipient of Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) award in filmmaking, Peter Stark Memorial Scholarship, and Thomas Bush Endowed Fund. Her fiction films have screened at Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, etc. Her clients are various from GitHub, Slack, and HBO/Sesame Street to educational institutions such as Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, and University of Southern California Viterbi Engineering School.

Movies

Death of a Telemarketer
Director of Photography
A smooth-talking telemarketer finds himself at the mercy of the man he tried to swindle.
Soak
Director of Photography
16 year old tries to convince her runaway mother to return home.
RUBY
Director of Photography
A program titled "Today’s Science" is on the verge of abolition due to its poor ratings. Seoyeon, the producer in charge, is in trouble both inside and outside. The boss urges Seoyeon to find new subject matters.
Dante Falls
Director of Photography
With her parents away, spunky ghost caretaker Nova Dante must balance her work and personal life as she and her inattentive Shinto priest boyfriend accidentally release evil ghosts that threaten to take over the world.
Wyrm
Director of Photography
Wyrm is falling behind. His twin sister, Myrcella, has become a woman after she and the Norwegian foreign exchange student did fingering at the cinemas. She wants Wyrm to move into their dead brother Dylan's room so she can have privacy and space for her personal items. Wyrm has two days to complete his Level 1 Sexuality Requirement or he'll be held back as part of the School District's No Child Left Alone program and forced to continue wearing his My.E.Q. Electronic Emotional Remote Monitoring Collar.