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StephenKang

  • Writer
  • Director
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Born in South Korea, Stephen Kang moved to New Zealand as a teen, then studied at Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts. His debut feature, Korean émigré tale Fridge (aka {Dream} Preserved) was judged Best Digital Feature at the 2006 NZ Screen Awards. Kang scored further success with Blue — which follows a children's TV mascot with blue skin, who is reduced to working as a waiter. It won the Critics' Week section of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, after being one of 1250 initial entries. The same year saw the release of Kang’s second feature Desert, the tale of a woman abandoned by her fiancé on her wedding day.

Screenography

Breathe
2021 Director, Writer Short film
Hand
2020 Director Short film
Delivery
2018 Director, Writer, Producer Short film
Sali Speaks
2012 Director Short film
2012 - 2018 Director, Writer Series

Awards

2011 Cannes Film Festival
Best Short Film - Critics' Week section: Blue
Nominated for Discovery Award: Blue

2011 Brussels International Independent Film Festival (Belgium)
Nominated for Best Short Film: Blue

“I wanted to have an ironic take on a seemingly simple fairytale in a modern context. ”

Stephen Kang on his award-winning 2011 short film Blue, in the press kit for the film