Credits

DIRECTOR/WRITER  So Yong Kim
PRODUCERS  Bradley Rust Gray, Ben Howe, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, So Yong Kim

Biography

So Yong Kim (director/writer)

Treeless Mountain is So Yong Kim’s second feature film. The script received support from the Cannes L’Atelier Program, the Sundance Institute’s Writers and Directors Labs, and the
Pusan Promotional Program.

Kim’s first feature, In Between Days, was acclaimed by critics and won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival along with the International Critics’ Prize at Berlin. It
was also awarded an LA Critics Prize and Best Film and Best Actress Prizes at Buenos Aires. Kino International and the Sundance Channel released the film in North America, and With
Cinema released the film in Korea.

So Yong Kim was born in Pusan, South Korea and immigrated to the US when she was twelve. She studied painting, performance, and video art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
where she earned her MFA. She has made several experimental short films including A Bunny Rabbit, shot by renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Kim also produced Bradley Rust Gray's award-winning Icelandic feature, SALT, in 2003. In 2006, Kim was featured as one of the “25 Filmmakers to Watch” in Filmmaker Magazine.

Bradley Rust (producer)

Bradley Rust Gray produced So Yong Kim’s In Between Days. He recently completed production on his second feature, The Exploding Girl, starring Zoe Kazan and Mark Rendall.

Gray’s first narrative feature, Salt, was filmed in Iceland and won the Caligari Film Prize for Innovative Filmmaking at Berlin in 2003. It was selected for over 20 international film festivals
and won three more international awards. The film was released on Sundance Channel in the US. Gray’s short film Hitch won an award at Sundance in 2000 and was selected as one of the
“Best Films of the Year” in Film Comment Magazine.

Gray is a Fulbright scholar who has received graduate degrees from both USC and the British Film Institute in London. His undergraduate work focused on architecture, sculpture, and experimental filmmaking, with a degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ben Howe (producer)

Ben Howe is an independent producer based in New York City. Along with Treeless Mountain, his recent credits include Matt Wolf’s documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Aurther Russell, which premiered at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival, and will be distributed theatrically by Plexifilm in September 2008. Ben has also produced three features currently in post-production: Cruz Angeles’ Don't Let Me Drown, an untitled thriller directed by David Barker, and Bradley Rust Gray’s The Exploding Girl.

Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy (producers)

PARTS AND LABOR is a company dedicated to director-driven, collaborative filmmaking. Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy established the company in 2004. The producers have completed seven feature films with an additional three films currently in post-production and two films lined up for a Fall/Winter ’08 shoot while keeping several other features – documentaries
and narratives – in active development. In addition to producing, Knudsen and Van Hoy are consultants to Scott Rudin, one of the American film industry's most prolific producers; they
inform and advise him regarding new talent and groundbreaking filmmakers from around the world.

Knudsen and Van Hoy produced Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy , Cam Archer's Wild Tigers I Have Known, Steve Collins' Gretchen, and Spencer Parsons' I'll Come Running. In addition to Treeless Mountain, their most recent projects include Nik Fackler's Lovely, Still, Cruz Angeles' Don't Let Me Drown, David Barker's Untitled, and Cam Archer's Shit Year. Knudsen and Van Hoy made Variety's “10 Producers to Watch” list in 2008. In 2006, they were singled out in Filmmaker Magazine's “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Paste Magazine also included them on their 2006 Top 10 List of “Arthouse Powerhouse Producers.”