Kristy Hyunsoo Choi makes films across hybrid and narrative formats about desire, freedom, and belonging through the lenses of Asian femme subjectivity and diaspora. Her projects have screened internationally and have received support from Frieze, the California Arts Council, The Asian American Foundation, Creative Capital Creator Fund, and more. Kristy’s short film Excerpts from a Field Guide was released by REI Co-Op Films in 2024. Her short film You Left Me a Ghost was a 2023 Julia S. Gouw Challenge Winner. And her short film Herselves was released by The New Yorker in 2021. The film has been studied at the University of Southern California and Pitzer College. Kristy also produced an Emmy^®-nominated episode of the “Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond” series for PBS WORLD. She received a B.A. from Brown University and a DAAD Post-Graduate Fellowship from Humboldt University in Berlin.

Pentimento — Long-suffered secrets and creative desires finally emerge after a 55-year-old art museum security guard begins a peculiar friendship with a painter in the throes of her own mid-life crisis. With an aging Asian immigrant woman’s inner world as its beating heart, Pentimento is a “coming-of-middle-age” drama about who gets to be seen as an artist.