INVENTING SOHYEON

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docu series · 50 min x 3 ep.

IN PRODUCTION

Korean Superstar in the making!

11-year-old actress Sohyeon is determined to shine bright at the top of K-Entertainment and works hard to build up her on-screen dream, and in doing so, learns to stand up to the harsh rules and limits set on young female talents in the Korean mainstream media.

Sohyeon is an 11-year-old Korean actress determined to shine bright at the top of K-Entertainment, which has taken the world by storm. She dreams of becoming the next on-screen sensation, just like her idol Jun Ji-hyun.

With her ecstatic image, Sohyeon garners appearances in numerous commercials and TV roles. The type of roles given, however, are very limited - a young, naive girl complementary only to the older protagonists and their storyline.

That is about to change as she celebrates her 12th birthday, marking the beginning of her puberty but more importantly granting her the legal right to sign a long-term labor contract with the entertainment agencies. With that, she may finally graduate from the simpler child roles and challenges for more mature, complicated screen presence. At the same time, the young actress also faces the mounting pressure to conform to the strict Korean beauty ideal, which encourages minors to even go as far as having plastic surgeries.

But Sohyeon isn’t afraid to say “no,” just like ‘The Girl’ in My Sassy Girl, a free-spirited heroine whose unapologetic character sets her own terms, played by none other than her hero, Jun Ji-hyun.

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Filmmakers

  • Sohyun Song

    PRODUCER

    Sohyun is leading a young production team at OTHERSIDE as the founder, producer & art director.

    Her previous experience as the art director on South Korean film sets and virtual content design projects is carried on to ensuring the artistic quality in the finest storytelling details from OTHERSIDE.

  • Dae Hyun Song

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Dae Hyun has made films that depict the brutality and warmth in one’s early adolescence, with child & teen subjects as main protagonists in each of his films.

    He started his filmmaking career in Los Angeles at Live Nation Entertainment, having worked on the contents that connect between up-and-coming talents and the audience across the globe.

    Dae Hyun has continued his attempt at infusing genuine storytelling with commercial platforms, and in 2021, was awarded the Best Commercial of the Year Award at the annual Korean Commercial/PR Award, for his direction on Viatris’s neuropathic pain awareness campaign film.

  • Victoria Vogel

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Victoria is a German creative director based in Seoul, South Korea.

    Her previous works have shared a common theme in defining an empathetic female gaze including The Slight Myth, about the iconization of the high school girl in Korea which won the 2019-20 Gute Aussichten Award.

    In 2020, she partnered with Seoul-based metaverse contents group PONY and creative-directed Virtual SullyAnn, the first South Korean virtual human art project.