Ougie Pak

Ougie Pak is a Korean-American writer and filmmaker whose work has screened in leading film festivals worldwide, including Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Tribeca and Busan. 

His debut narrative feature, CLYTAEMNESTRA, was selected as one of the Best Movies of 2022 in several year-end lists, including The New Yorker magazine and Mubi. It was hailed by film critic Richard Brody 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.” CLYTAEMNESTRA is currently available through the global curated streaming service Mubi, and will move to the Criterion Channel later this year. 

Ougie’s previous mid-length narrative feature, SUNRISE/SUNSET, was selected 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 is currently available through the distributor Grasshopper. 

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 Associate Professor at Emerson College, where he teaches screenwriting and directing in the Visual and Media Arts Department.