So Yong Kim

So Yong Kim is an award-winning Korean-American independent filmmaker whose new film, Lovesong, starring Riley Keough and Jena Malone, is out now. In 2006, So received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her debut feature, In Between Days; she followed up that film with Treeless Mountain, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008 and was theatrically released by Oscilloscope to excellent reviews. Kim’s third feature, For Ellen, starring Paul Dano and Jon Heder, premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals in 2012 and was subsequently released in theaters by Tribeca Films. Most recently in 2014, So directed Spark and Light, a short film starring Riley Keough commissioned by fashion house Miu Miu as part of their ongoing series Women’s Tales.