Heesook Sohn，Born in Seoul, Korea, Heesook immigrated to Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades at the age of 11. After acquiring Bachelors degree in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York, she worked as a freelance editor. In 1994, she relocated to Berlin in pursue of screen writing and directing studies at the Deutsch Film and Fernseh-Akademie (DFFB).