Christine Yoo

{{Short description|American writer and filmmaker}}

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Christine Yoo is an American writer, director, producer and filmmaker. She has written and directed a romantic-comedy feature film entitled "Wedding Palace," starring Brian Tee, Kang Hye-jung, Bobby Lee, Margaret Cho, Joy Osmanski, Steve Park, Kelvin Han Yee, Elaine Kao, Charles Kim, Jean Yoon, Nancy J. Lee, Simon Rhee, and more.{{cite web |title=Wedding Palace screening |website=USC School of Cinematic Arts |date=2012-09-25 |url=http://cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=12846 |access-date=2023-05-23}}{{cite web |last=DeVera |first=Vera |title=WEDDING PALACE - 2011 LA Asian Pacific Film Festival |website=laapff.festpro.com |date=2011-04-04 |url=http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/wedding_palace_2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120913061448/http://laapff.festpro.com/films/detail/wedding_palace_2011 | archive-date=2012-09-13 |url-status=dead}} The film is a U.S.-Korea joint production that won Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the Cine Gear Expo Film Series Competition{{cite web |title=Cine Gear Expo - 2011 Winners |website=cinegearexpo.com |year=2011|url=https://www.cinegearexpo.com/?cat=39 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924232858/https://www.cinegearexpo.com/?cat=39 |archive-date=2011-09-24 |url-status=dead}} and a Golden Angel Award for Best Asian American Film at the Chinese American Film Festival{{cite web |title=2011 CAFF GOLDEN ANGEL AWARDS WINNERS |website=Chinese American Film Festival |year=2011 |url=https://cafilmfestival.org/en/2011-caff-golden-angel-awards-winners/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928235242/https://cafilmfestival.org/en/2011-caff-golden-angel-awards-winners/ |archive-date=2022-09-28 |url-status=live | access-date=2023-05-23}} and was also an official selection of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival and a number of other film festivals. For the film, Yoo also received a Best Director award at the Atlanta Korean Film Festival as well.{{cite web |last=Yang |first=Emily |title=1st Annual Korean Film Festival Comes to Atlanta |date=October 8, 2012 |url=http://kollaborationatlanta.org/2012/10/08/korean-film-festival-comes-to-atlanta/ | website=Kollaboration Atlanta |archive-date=2013-04-15 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415055758/http://kollaborationatlanta.org/2012/10/08/korean-film-festival-comes-to-atlanta/ |url-status=dead}}

Yoo has also served as a writer on the animated series Afro Samurai, scripting at least 5 episodes of the show.{{cite web |title=Interview with Christine Yoo, Writer, Director, and Producer of 'Wedding Palace' |website=Asia Society |date=2012-10-02 |url=https://asiasociety.org/southern-california/interview-christine-yoo-writer-director-and-producer-wedding-palace |access-date=2023-05-23}} Yoo has also served as an Assistant Editor on TV shows such as VH1's Behind The Music, Motown 40: The Music is Forever, and an Apprentice Editor on the feature film Slums of Beverly Hills.{{cite web |title=Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Christine Yoo |website=IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?role=nm0948572 |access-date=2023-05-23}}{{better source needed|date=May 2023|reason=user generated content}} Yoo has also written and directed a short film entitled "Yellow Belle", a mid-1980s set film about an Asian American teenage girl who comes of age in America's South.{{cite web |last=Pink |first=Ross |title=The 2nd Vancouver Asian Film Festival |date=September 1998 |website=reviewvancouver |url=https://www.reviewvancouver.org/sp_asianfestival98.htm |access-date=2023-05-23}}

Yoo directed {{ill|26.2 to Life|qid=Q118584428 |short=yes |italic=yes}}, released in 2022, a documentary that portrays incarcerated runners who complete a marathon within San Quentin State Prison.{{cite web |title=26.2 to Life |year=2023 |website=Seattle International Film Festival |url=https://www.siff.net/festival/262-to-life |access-date=2023-05-26}}

Yoo is a graduate of the USC Film School.{{cite web |last1=Tseng |first1=Ada |last2=Aquino |first2=Rowena |title=Asia Pacific Arts: My Big Korean Wedding: interview with the director and cast of Wedding Palace |website=asiapacificarts.usc.edu |date=2011-11-02 |url=http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?my_big_korean_wedding_interview_with_the_director_and_cast_of_wedding_palace_17537.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826033519/http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?my_big_korean_wedding_interview_with_the_director_and_cast_of_wedding_palace_17537.aspx |archive-date=2013-08-26 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=Saria |first=Oliver |title=March Cover Story: Say I Do to 'Wedding Palace' |website=iamkoream |date=2012-03-26 |url=https://iamkoream.com/march-cover-story-say-i-do-to-wedding-palace/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328070537/https://iamkoream.com/march-cover-story-say-i-do-to-wedding-palace/ |archive-date=2012-03-28 |url-status=dead}}

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