Lee Isaac Chung

Lee Isaac Chung is a Korean American film director and screenwriter. His debut feature Munyurangabo was an Official Selection at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda language, the film was an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Busan International Film Festival. American critic Roger Ebert calls it in every frame a beautiful and powerful film a masterpiece. For the film, Chung was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and the Breakthrough Director Award at the Gotham Awards.

Lee Isaac Chung was born October 19, 1978 in Denver, Colorado and grew up on a small farm in rural Arkansas. His family comes from South Korea. He attended Yale University to study Biology. At Yale, with exposure to world cinema in his senior year, he dropped his plans for medical school to pursue filmmaking.

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