Ougie Pak

Ougie Pak is a writer and filmmaker whose work has screened in leading film festivals worldwide including Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Tribeca and Busan. His recent narrative feature film, CLYTAEMNESTRA, was hailed by Richard Brody of The New Yorker as "an accomplished, impressive, stylistically sophisticated film," and by Devika Girish of The New York Times as a "salacious and cynical behind-the-scenes story, in which directing and acting emerge as tyrannical power plays." It premiered at BAMcinemaFest in Brooklyn, NY in 2021 and is currently available through the global curated streaming service MUBI. His debut mid-length narrative feature, SUNRISE/SUNSET, was picked as a Top 50 American Film of 2019 by Filmmaker Magazine, and was praised as "quite affecting" by Art Forum, and "a bittersweet romantic escapade worth taking" by Hammer to Nail. It premiered at BAMcinemaFest in 2019 and was acquired for distribution by Grasshopper Film. Ougie earned his B.A. in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley and attended the Korean Film Council's Academy of Film Arts, the South Korean government's national film school. He is an Assistant Professor at Emerson College, where he teaches screenwriting and directing in the Visual and Media Arts Department.