AUTHOR PROFILE

Born in Seoul, Sarah spent 17 formative years living in Malaysia, Singapore, and Canada, experiences that deeply shaped her multicultural perspective. She earned her diploma in Graphic Design and Visual Communication from Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. Upon graduation, she launched her career at Oak 3 Films, one of Singapore’s leading production houses, where she produced a range of award-winning television dramas and infotainment series.

Eager to deepen her expertise, she later pursued film production studies at York University in Toronto and master's program in Film Studies at Dongguk University, South Korea.

Her unique storytelling voice has been recognized by several international programs. She was selected for the NAFF Film School of BIFAN 2012, Talent Campus Tokyo by Berlinale Talents & Tokyo FILMeX 2013, and the KAFA-Indonesia Co-Production Prebiz 2014.

In 2015, her Korea-China co-production project won the Project Development Grant from the Next Masters Support Program organized by Berlinale Talents Tokyo & Tokyo FILMeX, and presented at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Film Market the following year.

In recent years, she has expanded into literary fiction. She has just completed her first sci-fi manuscript, which received mentoring from the Incheon Fantasy Convention’s Future Film Production Program 2020. In 2022, she was selected for the New Novelist Program by the Korea Creative Content Agency, and her debut crime-thriller novel was published in South Korea in 2023. Her next book, a science fiction anthology, is scheduled for release in 2026.