Jongin Shin began his professional career as a screenwriter after winning the Screenwriting (Film) category of CJ ENM’s 2017 O’PEN Contest. Since then, he has developed feature-length screenplays centered on modern Korean history, weaving fictional characters into real historical events.

In 2025, he received the Top Excellence Award at the Gyeonggi Content Agency AI Academy and began directing AI-based films. His first AI short, the hand of god, a humorous exploration of the irony of human fate, was a comedy finalist at FESTIAV in Spain and won Best Comedy Short at the 2026 Berlin Kiez Film Festival in Germany.

The film was also officially selected for the Comox Valley International Film Festival in Canada, the IET Indep En Tarn Film Festival in France, and Magica Cinémathèque in the UK. In early 2026, he completed his second AI short, Land of Hope, DMZ, which reflects on the historical reality of the divided Korean Peninsula through AI-driven visual storytelling.

His work combines the strength of traditional storytelling with the visual possibilities of AI. He is currently developing his third AI film project.