Jin Mo-young

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'''Jin Mo-young''' is a South Korean documentary filmmaker. He directed ''My Love, Don't Cross That River'' (2014).

==Career== Jin Mo-young has been directing and producing television documentaries since 1997.<ref name=interview /> In 2012, he produced the feature film ''Shiva, Throw Your Life'' (directed by Lee Seong-kyu).<ref>{{cite web|title=JIN Mo-young|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=20179941|work=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2015-05-03}}</ref>

Jin made his feature directorial debut in 2014 with ''My Love, Don't Cross That River'', about 98-year-old Jo Byeong-man and 89-year-old Kang Kye-yeol, who'd been married for 76 years.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ahn|first1=Sung-mi|title=Gray-haired lovers become cinema hit|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141215000900|website=The Korea Herald|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=15 December 2014}}</ref> Jin filmed the elderly couple in their mountain village home in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province for 15 months, until Jo's death.<ref name=interview>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Sook-myung|title=JIN Mo-young, Director of ''MY LOVE, DON'T CROSS THAT RIVER'': "There's no need to be caught up in film scores"|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/interview.jsp?mode=INTERVIEW_VIEW&seq=140&blbdComCd=601019|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=5 January 2015}}</ref> ''My Love, Don't Cross That River'' won the Audience Award at the 2014 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and Best Independent Film at the 2015 KOFRA Film Awards.<ref>{{cite web|title=''Han Gong-ju'' picked as best film of 2014 by Korean film reporters|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150126000681|website=The Korea Herald|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=16 January 2015}}</ref> The film was a surprise hit at the box office, drawing 4.64 million admissions to become the highest grossing Korean independent/documentary film of all time.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sung|first1=So-young|title=Documentary tops box office|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2998454|website=Korea JoongAng Daily|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=13 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Heart-Rending Documentary Rewrites Box Office History|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/12/15/2014121501777.html|website=The Dong-A Ilbo|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=15 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Indie Documentary Breaks Box-Office Records|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/12/26/2014122601464.html|website=The Dong-A Ilbo|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=26 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/berlin-demographics-technology-favor-the-revival-of-indie-films-1201425676/|title=Berlin: Demographics, Technology Favor the Revival of South Korean Indie Films|author=Sonia Kil|magazine=Variety|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=6 February 2015}}</ref> Jin said, "I tried to shoot the lifelong love of the couple without affectation. [...] Life and death has great meaning. Since I wanted to produce content that could be widely consumed, I though the story was global and could move the hearts of everyone. [...] I didn't expect the response to be this strong. It appears that people from all age groups feel moved by the film. I think it's because it makes people realize what enduring love is about."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2014/12/141_169856.html |title=Korean docu film tops box office, beats ''Interstellar'', ''Exodus'' |last=Baek |first=Byung-yeul |website=The Korea Times |date=14 December 2014 |access-date=2015-05-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113015453/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2014/12/141_169856.html |archive-date=13 January 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Ju-ri|last1=Yim|first2=Seok-hee|last2=Go|title=Film on elderly couple a surprise hit|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2998634|website=Korea Joongang Daily|accessdate=2015-05-03|date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=interview />

Jin is currently filming his next project ''Outsider'' about North Korean defectors, which he calls "a story about a family on the borderline between being native and alien."<ref name=interview />

== Filmography == *''Shiva, Throw Your Life'' (2013) - producer, script editor *''My Love, Don't Cross That River'' (2014) - director, cinematographer

== References == {{Reflist|2}}

== External links == * {{kmdb person|00186843|Jin Mo-young}} * {{IMDb name|6795452|Jin Mo-young}} * {{HanCinema person}}

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