Jo Sung-hee
| Jo Sung-hee | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 3, 1979 Gyeonggi Province, South Korea |
| Education |
Seoul National University - Industrial Design Korean Academy of Film Arts - Filmmaking |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 조성희 |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Seong-hui |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Sŏnghŭi |
Jo Sung-hee (born February 3, 1979) is a South Korean film director. He directed the box office hit A Werewolf Boy (2012).
After majoring in industrial design at Seoul National University, Jo Sung-hee joined the Seo Taiji Company and Olive Studio, a children's animation company. During his time at these companies, he worked on numerous music videos and animated films as an assistant director. He also directed the 52-episode animated television series Barnacle Lou (따개비 루), which aired on EBS in 2007.
Jo then studied film directing at the prestigious Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). He got admitted by submitting a film he made with his friends for pure fun. Among his classmates at KAFA was Yoon Sung-hyun, who would go on to direct Bleak Night. One of Jo's teachers was Oh Seung-uk, screenwriter of award-winning romance Christmas in August, who taught him that "a director should trust his own abilities, but should always challenge their own works and expand their experiences."
In 2008 he wrote and directed the 43-minute short film Don't Step Out of the House (남매의 집), in which two impoverished children are menaced by strangers in the basement of a house. The short won several awards in 2009, including Best Picture at the Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival, the Eastar Jet Award (Best Korean Short Film) at the Jeonju International Film Festival, and Third Prize at the Cinéfondation section of the Cannes Film Festival. It was later included in the omnibus Nice Shorts (released in 2009).
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