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Eunsoo Cho is a young South Korean director of photography. She’s the 2025 winner of the Angenieux Encouragement Award in Cannes. The Seoul native studied at the Korean University of Arts before moving to the USA to complete her training in Los Angeles at the prestigious USC. Thereshe really began to work on a number of various projects (music videos, short films, and soon feature films), accumulating almost nine years of experience on the set. Notably with her fellow student Christopher Makoto Yogi, for whom she shot two independent feature films.
Having returned to her native country in 2012, she now divides her time between TV dramas, music videos and documentaries. Her most recent work includes Sue Kim’s documentary The Last of the Sea Women (2024), about the women divers on the South Korean island of Jeju who have been diving for centuries to the bottom of the ocean, without oxygen, to harvest seafood and make a living from it. (FR)