Boo Ji-young

부지영

1971 – Present

Genres: Drama
Topics: Working Life
Region: East Asia
Heritage: South Korea
Featured in: Activist Cinema

Biography

Boo Ji-young is a South Korean film director and scriptwriter. After graduating from the Korean Academy of Film Arts, she began her career in independent filmmaking in South Korea. She created her first film Sisters on the Road in 2008, and is best known for her film Cart (2014).

Selected Filmography

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Selected Recognition

Cart

2014

Winner
Blue Dragon Film Award · Best Actress (2014) · Winner
Social impact
Dramatizes a real 2007 Korean labor dispute in which a retailer mass-fired contract workers, who occupied the store for 21 days — one of the few Korean films to center women's labor rights; screened at TIFF