Jonathan Anthony Yoon-Min Yi

I am South Carolina Filmmaker from Charleston, SC, and an alumni of The University of South Carolina. I graduated with a B.A. in Media Arts and a minor in Theater. For all four years of my college education, I was heavily involved with the student community through my participation in the performing arts, sketch comedy group Carolina Tonight, and in the local student filmmaking group 1080C Productions. I also worked at the Thomas Cooper Library where I became a student organizer with the United Campus Workers Local 3765 in their "Fight For 15" campaign. In 2024, I was the team lead of a student group that participated in the College48 Film Festival. Our short "Fitness Fibbage" won the awards of "Audience Favorite", "Best Original Musical Score", and "Best Use of Character". It would later win "Best Overall Film" at the 2024 1080C Film Festival, and it would also be one of the selected films in SCETV's NextLens 2025 as an Honoree Film. In 2025, I had two short films win awards in the 1080C MediaFest. My experimental film "Shooting Stars" won "Best Overall Film", and my comedy special "A CLS-mas Carol" won "Best Writing".