SEOUL, May 22 (AJP) - Filmmaker Jin Mi-song has won a gong at this year's Cannes Film Festival which wraps up this weekend, organizers said on Friday.
Jin took home second prize with her short film "Silent Voices" in the La Cinef section, the prestigious festival's student film competition featuring short live-action and animated works by emerging filmmakers from universities around the world.
This year's lineup included 14 live-action and five animated short films selected from about 2,750 submissions from film schools around the world.
Jin's 17-minute short film follows a day in the life of a South Korean immigrant family living in New York. It portrays how they quietly deal with their personal struggles and emotions.
Jin said she was surprised by the award and thanked the jury for recognizing her work, as well as the cast and crew of "Silent Voices."
She graduated from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul and is currently studying at Columbia University in New York.
Meanwhile, the top prize went to New York University film school student Lucas Acher for "Laser-Cat," which tells the story of a teenager's one-night journey to find and rescue his crush's severely wounded cat.
Jin took home second prize with her short film "Silent Voices" in the La Cinef section, the prestigious festival's student film competition featuring short live-action and animated works by emerging filmmakers from universities around the world.
This year's lineup included 14 live-action and five animated short films selected from about 2,750 submissions from film schools around the world.
Jin's 17-minute short film follows a day in the life of a South Korean immigrant family living in New York. It portrays how they quietly deal with their personal struggles and emotions.
Jin said she was surprised by the award and thanked the jury for recognizing her work, as well as the cast and crew of "Silent Voices."
She graduated from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul and is currently studying at Columbia University in New York.
Meanwhile, the top prize went to New York University film school student Lucas Acher for "Laser-Cat," which tells the story of a teenager's one-night journey to find and rescue his crush's severely wounded cat.
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