ELISABETH SORA YEJI SCHÄFFTER SORA HONG

Sora is a visual artist and creative director specializing in film, 2D animation and mixed media. In 2020 she pursued the study Moving Image at the AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands and graduated with Cum Laude in July 2024. There , she perfected her visual eye and creative concepting for visual projects.

Working as a freelancer since 2020, Sora gained a lot of experience in the handling of clients for creative projects such as music videos for musicians and explainer videos for Youtube channels, striving to create a product that matches the clients vision.

In 2023 she attended the Korea National University of the Arts (K-Arts) in Seoul as an exchange student, where she directed her first short film with a bigger production team than her usual one-person-team constellation. She used those skills to further work as a leading force for other artistic projects.

prizes, awards, honourable mentions & exhibitions
experimental video installation ‘fluid’ (2020)
exhibition at Kunstfabrik Darmstadt 2021, ‘AM RAND’

experimental short film ‘arbeitsvorgang’ (2021)
jury award at 24htotake Filmfestival in Düsseldorf 2021
SilberFiSH award at FiSH-Filmfestival in Rostock 2022
Official Selection at TheNextFilm Festival in Odense 2022
nominated for the Youth Cinema Network Award 2022

video installation ‘sunday morning’ (2022)
exhibited at ‘moving in’ exhibition with the Moving Image faculty at ArtEZ 2022

documentary ‘the german witch of ∂når,lit’ (2022)
honourable mention at Student World Impact Festival in New York 2022

educational narrative animation (2023)
student film prize at WHO Health for All Film Festival 2023