Grace has worked in the film industry since 2009 as a screenwriter, director and producer. She also has years of professional experience in film curation and distribution, as well as live theater production. She earned her MA and PhD from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.
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J&S Auto (2021)
J&S Auto follows a day in the life of Joe Iwama—a 99-year-old Japanese American auto mechanic in Los Angeles who has been opening his auto shop every morning since 1949. In this portrait verité documentary, Joe narrates his life as an Asian American working-class immigrant about the California farm life, his family’s incarceration at Japanese “internment” camps, and the middle-minority life he encountered as an Asian between white and Black neighborhoods. This film follows the rhythm of an Asian American who has an intimate tie to the shop he has been a part of for over 70 years, and embodies nearly a century’s worth of experiences as an émigré, camp survivor, small business owner, father and an Angeleno.
Director: Grace Jung
Runtime: 12 minutes -
Drunk Korean American History: Johnny Yune (2020)
Comedian Grace Jung drinks soju and Hite beer before delving into the prolific life of Korean American comedian Johnny Yune who became a regular at the Comedy Store after his operatic career in New York, starred in several pilots from NBC, appeared on The Johnny Carson Show a dozen times, wrote and directed his own film They Call Me Bruce (1982), pioneered the show talk comedy format in South Korea in the 1980s, and appeared in several K-dramas toward the end of his life. Read more here.
Director: Grace Jung
Writer: Grace Jung
Runtme: 14 minutes -
A-Town Boyz (2023)
A-Town Boyz (2023) is the story of the American Dream ignored by sons of Asian immigrants, who are drawn to gang life as they fight against racism and find love and acceptance in the streets of Atlanta.
Director: Eunice Lau
Producer: Grace Jung
Runtime: 72 minutes -
Fractured (2012)
Fractured (2012) is a drama that follows a doctor and patient’s relationship that tangles and twists.
Director: Terry Sasaki
Writer/Creator: Grace Jung
Runtime: 6 minutes -
Billo (2009)
A little girl wins a giraffe named Billo in a school raffle and dreams about the day she gets to him. Recipient of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award. Official selection at First Run Film Festival.
Director: Cat Min
Writer: Grace Jung
Runtime: 5 minutes -
22 to 33 (in-production)
22 to 33 is an intimate portrait verité documentary about the creative process of two Korean American women.
Two childhood friends and working artists find film footage of themselves shot at age 22 shortly after graduating college. 11 years later, they rediscover this footage at age 33. The two artists process their shared past while seeking grace in the present by rendering their memories and visions into creatively productive healing. 22 to 33 has a handmade texture mixed with a lo-fi charm that experiments with a diversity of visual media including stop-motion animation, claymation, paint, nature, and live comedy to weave together two distinct yet intertwined artists’ lives from women who dream big, live up to it fearlessly and make their younger selves proud.
Directors: Grace Jung and Cat Min
Runtime: 70+ minutes