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Kristy Hyunsoo Choi makes films across hybrid and narrative formats about memory, freedom, and belonging through the lenses of Asian femme subjectivity and the Korean diaspora. She is also interested in stories about the material and immaterial labor conditions of art-making and sociopolitical revolution.

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Kristy's short film HERSELVES was released by The New Yorker and is free to stream worldwide. The film is studied every year at USC and Pitzer College. Read more about HERSELVES on The New Yorker.

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Her short film Excerpts from a Field Guide was released by REI and is free to stream worldwide.​​​

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She also produced an Emmy-nominated episode of the "Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond" series for PBS WORLD Channel.  

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Kristy was a Julia S. Gouw Challenge Winner and a recipient of the North Star Fellowship at Points North Institute and the Armed with a Camera Fellowship at Visual Communications. Her work has received support from Frieze, California Arts Council, The Asian American Foundation, Creative Capital Creator Fund, and more.​​

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In addition to her filmmaking, Kristy pursues longform writing. Her investigative report on Wah Luck House in Washington, D.C's Chinatown was published in Washington City Paper and on NPR.

 

She received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) Post-Graduate Fellowship from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

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Kristy is wildly optimistic, not by nature but through practice.

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Email: kristyhyunsoochoi@gmail.com

Instagram: @mybodymychoi

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