Butch Up
Yu-jin Lee
At first there is the comment by her ex-girlfriend, who says: »Stop being miserable!« Then the protagonist Mi-hae suffers another separation: during an important recording session, she realises she can simply no longer sing her band’s best-known song. The title of the song is »Oppa’s Girl«. She stops the recording and leaves. On the street, she sets herself up to busk with her guitar. An opportunity for something new arises when a chance meeting turns the tide of the day and leads her into another rehearsal room. In the end it all sounds much better.
Yu-jin Lee
Yu-Jin Lee studied film at Korea National University of Arts. In 2020, Lee’s short film Good Mother won the New Filmmaker Award at the Asian International Short Film Festival and was shown at numerous festivals that same year. The follow-up film Outing premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Best Film Award at the Jeju Women’s Film Festival. Butch up! was selected for Five Films for Freedom 2023 at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival and presented at international festivals. Lee has continuously explored the genres of comedy and drama, with Manok marking their feature film debut.
Films by Yu-jin Lee
Butch up! 2022 | Outing 2021 | Good Mother 2020
