KIM JIN-YU was born in 1988. He is based in Gangwon Province in South Korea and serves as festival director of the Jeongdongjin Independent Film Festival. As a Child of Deaf Adults (CODA), he directed the short film "Do You Hear What I Hear?" (2014) and the feature film "Bori" (2018) based on his own experiences. In 2018 at the Busan IFF, he received the Directors Guild of Korea Award as well as Chemnitz Award and Audience Award at the Schlingel IFF for his feature debut "Bori". "Journey There" is his second feature film.