Animator and film director Peter Sohn was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents who immigrated to the United States from South Korea during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. His father opened and operated several small businesses, from grocers to art supply stores, and his mother arrived in America to work as a nurse.
Peter’s love for drawing and animation emerged at a young age, though it wasn’t always encouraged by his parents, who had navigated the hardships of the Korean War and of emigrating to the U.S. Their experiences have shaped and informed the stories Peter animates, directs, and creates today, speaking to the valences of immigrant life which he masterfully captures through film.
