Female filmmaker wins $190,000 award
Toronto filmmaker Gloria Ui Young Kim has won a national award worth $190,000, designed to encourage more feature films directed by women.
The Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award includes cash, studio rentals, a camera package, support for picture and audio postproduction, closed captioning, insurance and a grip and lighting equipment package rental, which will help Kim complete her debut feature film, Debra and Mona.
The prize also includes a spot to develop the film in the WIDC Story & Leadership program taking place in part at the Whistler Film Festival.
The Seoul-born Kim has won prizes for previous works including Rock Garden: Not a Love Story and The Auction.
Her script for Debra and Mona won the 2013 Telefilm New Voices Award.