Sung-a Yoon

Born

1977-01-01

Birthplace

Seúl, Corea del Sur

Biography

Sung-A Yoon is a French cinematographer and artist born in South Korea and living in Brussels. She graduated from the National Superior School of Fine Arts of Paris-Cergy in 2005, and from the INSAS, a cinema school from Brussels, in 2008. Between 2001 and 2011, she directed ten short movies mostly shown in exhibitions. Switching to fiction, she finished her short movie And I'll Keep In My Heart in 2008, and it was selected for the Cannes Festival - cinéfondation, before traveling to a few international festivals. In 2012, she left to look for her dad, absent since her childhood, and ended up with her first documentary feature Full Of Missing Links, which traveled through festivals around the world. Overseas (2019) is her second documentary feature.