Biography
Joanne Mony Park is a Korean- American writer/ director from Los Angeles, CA. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts MFA film program in writing and directing. While there, she received the Clive Davis Award for Excellence in Music, the Tisch Graduate Fellowship, and was a finalist for the ARRI Volker Bahnemann Cinematography Award. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts, and Education Studies, from the University of California, San Diego.
Her stories focus on the hyphenated-American experience intersecting with queer storylines. Her films have screened at Slamdance Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Frameline, and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival where she won best director for her first feature film Fish Bones.
Her work has received support from the Torino NEXT lab, the Cine Qua Non Storylines lab, and Soo Hugh’s Thousand Miles Project. She is currently a part of the AFI Directing for Women Workshop in development for her next short film.