Janghun Troy Choi

Janghun Troy Choi (born June 26, 1976) is a South Korean-born American filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.
Early life and career
Choi was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. At the age of 24, he came to the United States of America for film studies. Choi majored in Film Studies, a film theory & history based program, at University of California, Berkeley and made his directional debut film, , in his senior year at UC-Berkeley.
Blind Love is a three thousand dollar ($3,000.00 USD) low budget feature-length film without dialogue and won the Orson Welles award at Tiburon International Film Festival in 2007, Best Feature Film at Ellensburg International Film Festival in 2006, Best Feature Film at flEXiff International Film Festival in 2006, and nominated for Best Produced Screenplay at AOF International Film Festival in 2006.
Directorial Style
Choi is known to challenge the limits of cinematic style and the forms of storytelling. In terms of creating visual imagery, he exploits such fundamental filmic medium as sound, lighting, camera choreography, film lens, prop, costume, etc. as a cinematic language to communicate with the audience without depending on verbal language or narration through characters. He also refuses to employ a linear narrative presentaion by aggressively manipulating time and space in the plot. He manages to present a feature-length story without dialogue in Blind Love.
Filmography
Blind Love
Blind Love, written, directed, & produced by Choi, is a live-action film about two strangers who, through unfortunate acts of circumstance, are torn apart before they ever meet. Two young people, one a hitman, the other a prostitute, answer an ad to share an apartment - one takes days, the other, nights. Without ever seeing each other, they develop a strong bond through the haptical traces they leave behind and find themselves longing for more than what life has given them. The 2006 Connecticut Film Festival acclaimed "Shot entirely without dialogue, this striking film manages to convey such intense senses of smell, taste, and touch, giving it a visual vibrancy that propels the wordless tale."
Upcoming Project
Flight
Choi is currently working on his Hollywood debut film, Flight, that is his very first screenplay he wrote when he was 20. Flight is a martial arts film with classic film noir looks in its overall style. It's also a chase film with many sets of wireless action choreogrphy. Choi went to Thailand in 2009 to ask Tony Jaa, a Thai martial artist & actor, to star the film and Jaa agreed to act in the film, however Jaa's Agency, Sahamongkol International, shut down the deal by asking $3M USD plus a huge portion of profit participation and sales rights out of a $10M dollar project. Now A-list Hollywood actors are considered to replace Jaa in the lead role and Choi is working with Hollywood movie producers and production staff in LA to secure an additional $20M USD in addition to the $10M USD. Flight is about a government secret agent, Langer, who struggles with his own internal demons that he must face to prevent his inner self from destroying himself.

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