Park Ji-wan, born in 1981, majored in visual communication at Ehwa University and graduated from Korean Academy of Film Arts. In 2006, she directed her first short film, Pillow Talk. Her second short, High School Girls(2008), won Best Asian Short at the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. Her feature debut, The Day I Died: Unclosed Case, starring Kim Hye-soo and Lee Jung-eun, won the Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Screenplay – Film.