Seung Hyun Yoo’s first documentary Daughters of The Cloth is an in-depth look at a Korean immigrant family and the Los Angeles garment industry. The Chicago Tribune described it as “an understated, heartfelt exploration of the travails and resilience of the Bang family…” It aired on Free Speech TV, and was shown at many festivals and forums including the Thomas Edison Black Maria Film/Video Festival, where it received a Director’s Citation, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Yoo was also the editor of the critically-acclaimed essay documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself, a major sociological investigation into the history of Los Angeles as represented in movies. The film won the Best Documentary Feature at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Critics’ Independent Experimental Film/Video Award, and was awarded a Certificate of Recognition by the City of Los Angeles. It has screened at numerous festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Vienna, Rotterdam, and Buenos Aires.

Yoo is currently a post-production supervisor/Digital Labs Manager at California Institute of the Arts. She is also working on Home Movie From Another Home, a feature documentary that depicts her immigrant life and the lives of her neighbors from diverse countries.

Yoo was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. She studied journalism and mass communications, and worked as program director/producer for an educational cable channel in Korea. Since coming to the US in 1997 for her Master’s in Film and Video at California Institute of The Arts, Los Angeles has become her second hometown.