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Born in South Korea, director/writer Minji Kang was educated in America from the age of fifteen. She attended Tabor Academy a college-preparatory boarding school on the coast of Massachusetts. Coming from a different culture, the change was an eye-opening refreshing shock, and she was fascinated by new ways of seeing, thinking and learning. She excelled in academics, but in her junior year, she found her life turned upside down as her health declined. Her life was a constant battle with anorexia, then bulimia and depression. Kang spent most of her senior year at The Winchendon School, near Mount Monadnock, and was honored by its Excellence in Art award upon her graduation. Those seven months at Winchendon were very influential in her decision to pursue a career in art and filmmaking. 

 

Moving on to art school, where free-thinking and unique sensibility are encouraged and challenged, was an undeniably natural choice for Kang. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio, with an emphasis in Film. 

 

As a TOMS Scholar, she continued her artistic development at Columbia University in New York where she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Film Directing. Graduating with honors, Kang's MFA thesis film The Loyalist was screened internationally and received numerous accolades. This political drama short film was based on the feature screenplay Kang wrote while enrolled at Columbia. The story was inspired by the all-school meeting speech Kang delivered about the Berlin Wall during her time at Tabor Academy. 

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Endorsed by Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Kang participated in the Fantastic 7 of the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes, featured in VARIETY. She is a fellow of Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival's Fantastic Film School, Busan Asian Film School (AFiS), Cine Qua Non Lab, and Berlinale Talents Tokyo.

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Cinema, as an art form, has been a delightful blank canvas that enables Kang to express her boundless imagination, sensual melodies, and candy-colored hopes and dreams, even at times when things fall in minor keys. Over the past decade, Kang has been playing Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin as a means of  spiritual meditations. She is presently focusing on her new project Cry Like Huskies.