Kim Dong-won graduated from Sogang University in mass communications. In the eighties he worked as an assistant director on commercial film projects, then switched over to documentaries at the end of the decade. Sangye-dong Olympics (1988) was screened at the Berlinale and at the Yamagata IDFF in Japan, as were the documentaries Standing on the Edge of Death (1990) and The 6 Day Struggle at Myong-Dong Cathedral (1997). Kim Dong-won was chairman of the Association of Korean Independent Filmmakers. He lectures at Korea's National University of Arts.
MFF Karlovy Vary
