Korean-Canadian Director Albert Shin's "In Her Place" had its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 6th.
The film is a compelling drama that centers around the building tension between the film's characters, and will be screening in the festival's Discovery Programme.
"The secret at the centre of Albert Shin's beautifully restrained In Her Place unfolds slowly and subtly over the course of the film's opening scenes. An affluent couple from Seoul arrives at a desolate farm in the South Korean countryside, where a pregnant teenager and her mother have agreed to let them adopt the girl's unborn child. As part of the arrangement, the wife will stay at the farm until the child is born."
Shin was born in Ottawa to first generation Korean parents and studied film and video production at York University. He has produced the short film Day of John (05) and the feature Krivina (12), both of which screened at the Festival. He has directed the short films Pin Doctor (06) and Kai's Place (08), and the feature Point Traverse (10). In Her Place (14) is his second feature which was also co-written and edited by Shin.
