Interview with Filmmaker Suyoung Jang (SHATTERED)

SHATTERED played to rave reviews at the April 2020 Female Film Festival.

A Film Freeway Preferred Festival:

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Suyoung Jang: Before I started to study computer animation at Ringling College of Art+Design, I had studied History at Ewha Womans University in South Korea, one of the oldest universities and the first women’s university in Korea. Studying and living in all female environment was unique experience in my life. There were so many talented women, but as soon as they had graduated school, they started to struggle only because of their gender. Lots of companies in South Korea rejected my friends’ application. We needed to put our photo and clarify our gender on resume, and it was not illegal at that point in Korea. Same as US, Korean society educated girls “your right is as important as man”, but right after we get…