Films/ Media
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Free Chol Soo Lee: Screening and Q&A
Sunday, August 14, 2022 | 5:50 PM"A powerful indictment of systemic racism and the criminal justice system" – The Chicago Reader “Extraordinarily moving... what documentary filmmaking should strive for” – RogerEbert.com Join us for the riveting documentary FREE CHOL SOO LEE, opening at IFC Center on August 12. A MUBI Release, this revelatory Sundance selection from journalists Julie Ha and Eugene Yi chronicles the story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean-American whose wrongful murder conviction ignited an unprecedented social movement. Drawing on... Read More -
THE HONG SANGSOO MULTIVERSE: A RETROSPECTIVE OF DOUBLE FEATURES
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 | 7:30 PMPhoto courtesy Sandro Baebler Film at Lincoln Center presents in partnership with The Korea Society The Hong Sangsoo Multiverse: A Retrospective of Double Features, offering a thorough compendium of the filmmaker’s career, through a two-part series running from April 8-17 and May 4-10, 2022. Few if any contemporary directors have amassed as vast and prolific a body of work as Hong Sangsoo. Working at an unparalleled clip of productivity, the South Korean auteur has helmed 25 of his 27 features this century,... Read More -
The Showrunners with Soo Hugh and Ria Tobaccowala
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Soo Hugh, an acclaimed producer/writer and executive producer of Pachinko, one of the most anticipated drama series of 2022, talks about her career in television and the journey of adapting the bestselling novel into a series. Hugh will also be joined by Ria Tobaccowala, with whom she has launched The Thousand Miles Project, an incubator program to help bring more API stories to cinematic life and jumpstart fruitful careers in the entertainment industry. Pachinko, which premiers on Apple TV+ in late March, is... Read More -
New Narratives in Korea: "Poongryu"
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | 5:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Image credit: JTBC Poongryu: Battle Between the Vocalists is a new music competition program from JTBC aiming to showcase a crossover between popular music and gugak, Korean traditional music. Featuring the best and brightest of a new generation of gugak singers and musicians, Poongryu has captivated the music fans around the world by introducing a new genre of music blending the traditional with modern twist. Kyojin Hwang, Chief Producer of Poongryu: Battle Between the Vocalists, discusses the origin of the... Read More -
Special Virtual Screening: Minari
Thursday, February 4, 2021 | 8:00 PM-- REGISTRATION CLOSED -- A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. Please join us for a special advance virtual screening of... Read More -
House of Hummingbird: Streaming and A Director's Talk
Sunday, January 24, 2021 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Grand Prix for the Best Film - Berlin International Film Festival, Generation 14+ Competition Best International Feature Film Award; Best Cinematography in an International Feature Award; Best Actress in an International Feature Award - Tribeca International Film Festival 14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend,... Read More -
Cold War Cosmopolitan: Han Hyung-Mo & Korean Cinema of the 1950s
Thursday, December 3, 2020 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many “Golden Age cinemas” that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. One of the most important filmmakers of the time was Han Hyung-Mo, director of the era’s most glamorous and popular women’s pictures including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides an illuminating analysis of Han's career and films with careful attention to key issues of modernity—such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and... Read More -
K-Drama Fever: Global TV in the US
Thursday, November 12, 2020 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Television as we know it has transformed in the last two decades, away from network television mainly produced in the form of sitcoms, police procedurals, and medical or courtroom dramas, towards serial narratives, with clear storylines developed across episodes. At the same time, the notion of “quality television” has changed the way we evaluate TV content, from intentionally mindless entertainment to innovative cultural works. These shifts have been fortuitous for the rise in popularity of Korean television... Read More -
Korean-American Directors: A Roundtable
Thursday, October 29, 2020 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
After the success of Crazy Rich Asians and Parasite, the demand for representation of Asians and Asian-Americans on screen is rising. But what about behind the camera? Listen to our conversation with three Korean-American directors - Andrew Ahn, So Yong Kim, and Lee Isaac Chung- as they discuss their films and careers, their experience of working within and outside of the Hollywood system, and the challenges they face when they try to bring their own story to the screen. Due to the novel coronavirus... Read More -
Side by Side: Streaming and A Director's Talk
Monday, July 20, 2020 | 6:00 PM- Youtube Video:
Side by Side: Out of a South Korean Orphanage and Into the World weaves the stories of nine inter-country adoptees—selected out of 100 original interviews— as they recall their families of origin, their relinquishment to orphanages, and their adoptions and lives abroad. Starkly minimalist, Side by Side is composed entirely of intensely intimate, first-person narratives, filmed in Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Melbourne. This extraordinary documentary will be available... Read More