The Loyalist
South Korea, 17m, Digital
A North Korean general checks in on his daughter at a Swiss boarding school, in order to test her loyalty to her motherland.
Director: Minji Kang
Writer(s): Minji Kang (Story), Storm Garner and Willem Lee (Screenwriters)
Producer(s): Alex R. Ma
Co-Producer(s): Alvaro R. Valente
Associate Producer(s): Ilan Amouyal, Margot Arakelian, Richard Rodzinski
Director of Photography: Dan Brohawn
Editor(s): Minji Kang
Production Design: Storm Garner
Composer(s): Jay Kim
Sound Design: Luke Allen
Cast: Hyuk-Poong Kwon, Woorim Jung, Jongman Kim
Contact: Minji Kang, minjikang@icloud.com, www.minjikang.com
About the Writer/Director
MINJI KANG (director) is a visual artist working in Cinema. She received her B.F.A. from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she focused on Film Art and Aesthetics. She continued her artistic development in Columbia University’s M.F.A. Film Directing program. During this time she focused on the craft of writing and the various narrative aspects of film. The cinematic art form has been a delightful canvas, a virtual playground, where her boundless imagination, sensual melodies and candy-colored hopes and dreams collide to fashion gripping narratives played in an often minor key. Kang is currently writing a script about a troubled musician falling in love with a blind girl.
About the Writer
STORM GARNER has long been haunted by the ephemeral nature of live performance, but undeniably formed as a storyteller from her vivid experiences working in experimental theater, music, and performance art. Storm has been a student of film studies and creative writing at Columbia University in the General Studies program since 2008, and hopes to someday master a more archivable medium. She now works regularly with moving images in a variety of creative capacities and enjoys helping her fellow filmmakers realize their storytelling dreams however she can, while connecting talented artists to one another, and continuously learning from a diverse set of creative processes.
About the Producer
ALEX RUIQING MA (Producer) is a China/U.S.-based filmmaker currently working for a Multinational Cultural Corporation. Born and raised in China, Alex received his B.A. in Film and his M.A. in Communications from Peking University in Beijing, prior to graduating with his M.F.A. in Creative Producing from Columbia University. He was a student member of the Producers Guild of America and liaison for the China Film Association. Alex was invited to participate in the Talents Meet Bertelsmann, Berlin, the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, and the Berlinale Talents Tokyo, 2014. With a wide range of experiences in film and television production, media technologies and marketing communications, Alex has produced projects in Asia, the Americas and the Middle East, and his creative works to date have been screened and awarded internationally. He is also the translator for the Chinese edition of Maureen Ryan’s book, Producer to Producer: A Step-By-Step Guide to Low Budget Independent Film Producing.
