2026Nominee
Career Highlight
School for Defectors
Heo Chul-nyung
Director · Producer
Biography
After graduating from the School of Film, TV, & Multimedia at Korea National University of Arts, Heo Chul-nyung majored in documentary at the KNUA graduate school. He served as co-director of the short documentary A Noted Place (2010), and then directed his first feature documentary The Remanent People (2012). This film was screened in the competition section of the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival. He was also invited to the Busan International Film Festival and the Seoul Independent Film Festival with The Whispering Trees in 2017.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2023Nominee
Best Director
206: Unearthed
2024Nominee
Best Director
Edhi Alice: REVERSE
Career Highlights
2025Highlight
Best Picture
Where We Become Us
2014Highlight
Best Director
Non Fiction Diary