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Jo Se-young

조세영

1979 – Present

Region
East Asia
Heritage
South Korea
Featured in
Cinema Across BordersActivist Cinema

Selected Filmography

K-Number
K-Number케이 넘버2024Jo Se-young
Let’s Dance
Let’s Dance자, 이제 댄스타임2014Jo Se-young

Selected Recognition

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2024
  1. Winner

    Busan International Film Festival · Documentary Audience Award (Wide Angle) (2024) · Winner

  2. Winner

    Seoul Independent Film Festival · Grand Prize (Feature Competition) (2024) · Winner

  3. Winner

    Seoul Independent Film Festival · Passionate Staff Award (2024) · Winner

  4. Winner

    Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) · F:ACT Award (2025) · Winner

  5. Social impact

    Investigates fraud and mismanagement in South Korea's international adoption system through the numbering system once used to track children sent abroad

Let’s Dance

2014
  1. Winner

    DMZ International Documentary Film Festival · International Competition Grand Prize (2014) · Winner

  2. First

    South Korea's first documentary to directly interview women about abortion — released while the procedure was still criminalized in Korea

Interview

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External Resources

↗Cine21 (KOR)↗KMDb (KOR)↗IMDb