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Jin Mi-song
Jin Mi-song is a Korean writer-director working between New York and Seoul whose festival profile jumped in 2026 when Silent Voices took second prize at the Cannes Film Festival's La Cinef selection. Credited internationally as Nadine Misong Jin, she studied English literature and film directing at Sungkyunkwan University before continuing as an MFA Film candidate at Columbia University. Her work moves through immigrant life, youth, and emotional fracture with a controlled art-house frame, which places her in the same Cannes conversation HITKULTR has tracked through Na Hong-jin's Hope and Kim Doyeon's Dora run. Before Silent Voices, Jin's short Juk won the Grand Prize in the Asian American East Region at the 2024 DGA Student Film Awards, adding an industry marker to a filmography that also includes Wasteland. Her Silent Voices Cannes win gives HITKULTR readers an early look at a director whose first-feature trajectory now matters.
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Who is Jin Mi-song?
Jin Mi-song is a Korean writer-director who also works under the international credit Nadine Misong Jin. She is based between New York and Seoul, studied English literature and film directing at Sungkyunkwan University, and is now an MFA Film candidate at Columbia University. Her 2026 short Silent Voices pushed her onto the wider festival radar after winning second prize in Cannes La Cinef.
What is Silent Voices about?
Silent Voices is a 17 minute short about a Korean immigrant family of four in New York who hide their private wounds from one another while moving through separate daily defeats. Cannes described the film as a story of survival and disconnection. The short gave Jin Mi-song her biggest international breakthrough when it won second prize in La Cinef in 2026.
Where did Jin Mi-song study filmmaking?
Jin Mi-song studied English literature and film directing at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul before continuing her training in the United States. Korean coverage and her official bio both say she is an MFA Film candidate at Columbia University in New York. That Korea-to-New York path is a big part of how her work bridges local identity and diaspora storytelling.
Why does Jin Mi-song's Cannes win matter?
Her Cannes result matters because La Cinef is one of the festival's clearest discovery sections for student filmmakers. In 2026, Silent Voices took second prize after the lineup was drawn from 2,747 submissions worldwide. That kind of finish puts Jin Mi-song in front of programmers, funders, and producers who track first-feature talent early.
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