Biography

Kim Myeong-joon is a South Korean film director and cinematographer. Kim's directorial feature film Our School (2007), a documentary about the lives of ethnic Korean students in Japan, won the BIFF Mecenat Award for best documentary at the 2006 Busan International Film Festival and the Kim Yong-gun Memorial Society prize in 2008. His latest baseball-themed documentary Strangers on the Field (2015), which also focused on Koreans that have grown up in Japan, debuted at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in 2014.