Kang Jin-a

Kang graduated from Hongik University's Department of Visual Design in 2004.{{cite news|url=https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201306031806090510|author=하수정 [Ha Su-jeong]|script-title=ko:강진아 감독 '어디가서 감독이라고 하면 놀라던데요'|trans-title=Director Kang Jin-a: 'Whenever I say I'm a director, people are surprised'|work=Newsen|date=5 June 2013|accessdate=15 November 2015}}

Kang's work mainly deals with the themes of life and death, including Suicide of the Quadruplets (2008), Be with Me (2009) and Paprika Feast (2011). Her short Be with Me (2009) won the Best Film in A Short Film About Love at the 9th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival in 2010. Her directorial feature debut Dear Dolphin (2013), an exploration of life, love and grief, premiered at the 14th Jeonju International Film Festival and won the CGV Movie Collage Prize.{{cite web|title=KANG Jin-a|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=10000882|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|accessdate=2015-11-14}}{{cite web|last=Conran|first=Pierce|title=In Focus: Dear Dolphin|url=http://koreanfilm.or.kr/webzine/sub/column.jsp?mode=A_VIEW&wbSeq=45|work=Korean Cinema Today|accessdate=2015-11-14|date=2 May 2013}} Pierce Conran of Twitch Film praised "Kang's natural ability as both a storyteller and a stylist" but described some elements of the film as derivative, while Derek Elley of Film Business Asia was more critical, stating that it "lacks the wrenching feeling it should have built towards".{{cite news|url=http://twitchfilm.com/2013/05/jeonju-2013-review-ethereal-dear-dolphin-explores-grief-and-guilt.html|first=Pierce|last=Conran|title=Jeonju 2013 Review: The Ethereal DEAR DOLPHIN Explores Grief and Guilt|date=7 May 2013|accessdate=11 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117014303/http://twitchfilm.com/2013/05/jeonju-2013-review-ethereal-dear-dolphin-explores-grief-and-guilt.html|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/dear-dolphin|first=Derek|last=Elley|title=Reviews: Dear Dolphin|work=Film Business Asia|date=17 December 2013|accessdate=11 November 2015}}

Kang's next work after Dear Dolphin, entitled That's Not True, was released in 2015 as part of KT&G Sangsangmadang's "Mag(Magazine) Movie Project: A Woman and A Man", and starred veteran actress Lee Mi-yeon as well as singer Baro.{{cite news|url=http://www.jungculture.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=5651|author=구하나 [Gu Hana]|script-title=ko:이미연, 강진아 감독의 단편영화 '그게 아니고'에서 바로와 호흡|trans-title=Lee Mi-yeon and Baro in director Kang Jin-a's short film 'That's Not True'|work=Jung Culture|date=25 February 2015|accessdate=15 November 2015}}

• Suicide of the Quadruplets (short film, 2008) - director
• Be with Me (short film, 2009) - director, screenwriter
• 49th Day (short film, 2011) - director
• Nice Shorts! 2011 (segment: "Growing Old Together") (2011) - director, screenwriter
• Paprika Feast (구천리 마을잔치; short film, 2011) - director, screenwriter
• Dear Dolphin (2013) - director, screenwriter
• That's Not True (그게 아니고; short film, 2015) - director

• Volcano High (2001) - location editor
• The Squadron Vignette (short film, 2003) - assistant director, script editor
• Blind Interview (short film, 2004) - editor
• Camellia Project (2005) - assistant editor
• Be with Me (short film, 2009) - editor
• Nice Shorts! 2011 (segment: "Growing Old Together") (2011) - editor

• My Teacher, Mr. Kim (2003)
• Save the Green Planet! (2003)
• A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003)
• Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield (2003)
• Ice Rain (2004)
• Au Revoir, UFO (2004)
• ''Spider Forest (2004)

• Save the Green Planet! (2003)
• Ice Rain (2004)
• Au Revoir, UFO (2004)

• The Coast Guard (2002)

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