She received the Canal+ Prize for best short film for “Circle Line,” which tells the story of a middle-aged man killing time on a Seoul subway train as he tries to keep from his family the fact that he was recently made redundant.
Shin, who studied German at Seoul National University, worked as a middle school teacher for around 10 years from 1990 in Seoul. But the School of Film, TV & Multimedia at Korea National University of Arts completely changed the path of her life. At the age of 34, she told her husband and children that she needed a change of direction, quit her job and enrolled.
Several years later in 2007, she used W25 million (US$1=W1,180) from her pension to make the autobiographical film “Passerby #3,” which earned her awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival and Jeonju International Film Festival.
Shin will start filming her next project, “Pluto,” soon.
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