Kim Dong-ryung (b. 1977, South Korea) started documenting the daily lives of US military camp towns with photography and moving images in 2004. She released her first feature-length documentary American Alley in 2009 and won the Ogawa Shinsuske Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF). Soon after, she and Park Kyoung-tae co-directed Tour of Duty (2013), which won the Special Prize at YIDFF. Her most recent film is the docufiction The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin (2019).