- Nickname
- Buddhist monk Daehae
- Biography - Younguee Yoo
Jury 39th Moscow International Film Festival, 2017 17th Dhaka International Film Festival, 2019
MasterClass Serbia, The 46th Belgrade International Film Festival, 2018 Russia, The 11st Cheboksari International Film Festival, 2018 Italy, The 21st Religion Today International Film Festival, 2018
Special Director's session Italy, The 11st Concorto International Film Festival, 2012 Russia, The 55th White Nights International Film Festival, 2013
Major Career 1998. 09. ~ Current: The chief director of "the Institute of education for Beautiful Green earth" 2005. 12. ~ Current: Representative of "Making the World Beautiful Through Film (MWBTF) Corp." to the United Nations Department of Global Communications 2006. 05. ~ Current: The chief of the International Buddhist Temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism 2014. 02 ~ Current: The chairman of the organizing committee of "the UNICA KOREA International Film Festival".
Younguee Yoo is a director who makes myths into movies. From 2007 to the present, she has written and directed more than 110 films. Her films have won 91 international awards, including in the U.S., the U.K., Italy, Switzerland, and other international film festivals, with favorable reviews such as, "From looking to thinking," "It's a soulful film," and "It's a quality film that a judge cannot dare to evaluate."
In 2017, she wrote and directed the feature film SERMON ON THE MOUNT. This film was released in Korea and Los Angeles, USA, and was invited to leading international film festivals such as the Moscow International Film Festival. SERMON ON THE MOUNT won 22 awards, including a Best Director Award. In addition, the film screened at the UN Headquarters in New York in February 2020, and was shown to all inmates on monitors installed in each cell at Sing Sing Prison in New York.
SERMON ON THE MOUNT was also presented in screenings and she gave a lectures at Yale University, UCLA, the University of Georgia, Emory University, Union Theological Seminary in New York, Salesian Pontifical University, and Moscow University. Lastly, in September 2017 a screening and accompanying lecture was held at the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea.
Furthermore, Korean director In-ah Choi has produced a documentary about her titled ACROSS. The documentary was invited to the Busan International Film Festival and Austin Film Festival, and it was presented on CNN's Great Big Story. On the BBC, She was also chosen as an 'inspiration to people all over the world' and her interview was broadcast.
She has served as a jury member at the Moscow International Film Festival in Russia and at the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh.
She also founded the non-profit organization 'Making the World Beautiful Through Film (MWBTF) Corp.' and has been hosting the UNICA KOREA International Film Festival since 2014.
'Making the World Beautiful Through Film' has been approved as an Organization Formally Associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications in 2021 and is active in the United Nations.
She attended a high-level meeting on universal health coverage, a high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis, and a high-level meeting to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons held at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2023 as a formally associated representative organization by the United Nations Department of Global Communications.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Yoo Young-uee
- Who made Christian movie as Buddhist monk.
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