Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006 at 7:30 PM *NEW TIME!*
Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre
Monday, Oct. 2, 2006 at 7:00 PM *NEW TIME!*
Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre
Q&A with directors to follow screening
ANDREW THE PIRATE
Fiction Short
Length: 14 min.
Director: Sung Yong Son
Video, 2006, USA
English
The Houston International Film Festival Silver Remi Award (Children's Category 2006)
Co-presented by the T.O.M. Film Festival
Synopsis
A family of three Andrew (son), James (father) and Jane (mother) are
down on their luck after losing virtually everything to a case of
bankruptcy. Forced to move into a modest apartment in a dilapidated
neighborhood, Andrew is thrust into a new school where his classmates
ridicule him for dressing like a pirate and his father, a new source of
embarrassment, is the janitor. Wrongfully charged with destroying
school property, Andrew looks to his imaginary friend and hero Captain
Black Beard to help him out of the trouble but instead finds his father
there to save the day. In doing so, Andrew now sees his father as he
once did; his hero.
Director's Bio
 Sung
Yong Son comes from Seoul, South Korea where he received a B.A. degree
in Mass Communication. He came to the United States four years ago to
study mass communication, but decided to focus on film. He has a
passion to convey his thoughts, feelings, and moods to the audience. He
is very interested in family related social issues.
YASIN
Fiction Short
Length: 14 min.
Director: Betty Lee Kim
Video, 2006, USA
English
* Los Angeles Premiere *
Official Selection Palm Springs Int'l Festival of Short Films
Official Selection Temecular Valley Int'l Film Festival
Synopsis
Until 9/11, Yasin Zaki, 10, lived an ordinary life with his Jordanian-born parents in
Southern California. After the attack, Yasin's life is turned upside down when the FBI
arrests his father in a terrifying early morning raid. Still suffering from the trauma of
his father's detention, Yasin's misfortunes are compounded at school, where he is the
target of malicious and fearful accusations. Lashing out at his classmates, Yasin is
increasingly unable to cope. Finally, Yasin and his mother visit his father in jail. Half believing
the accusations of "terrorist," Yasin must decide whether or not to believe in
his father and accept his love in the face of unanswerable questions. In the process,
Yasin must gain the courage to confront the realities of life as a Muslim Arab-American
in post-9/11 America.
Director's Bio
Elizabeth (Betty Lee) Kim was born in Chico, CA, of Korean
immigrant parents and grew up in New York City and
New Jersey. She received a BFA in painting from Cornell
University in Ithaca, NY, then spent five years in New York
City, learning the meaning of the term "struggling artist,"
before returning to Ithaca to eventually earn her second
Cornell degree, an MFA in fiction from CU's prestigious
Creative Writing program. At Cornell she received the
Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for excellence in
visual art and the Arthur Lynn Andrews award in fiction. As
a graduate student at USC's School of Cinema-Television
she was awarded the James Bridges Scholarship for merit
in directing for her work on "Yasin." Elizabeth is thrilled
to be finally integrating her interests in the visual and
narrative arts as a USC filmmaker.
KEN
Fiction Short
Length: 18 min.
Director: Eric Won
Video, 2006, USA
English
Official Selection Action On Film Festival
Official Selection LA Shorts Festival
Warning: This short film contains violent scenes.
Synopsis
Ken, a homeless boy gets into a fight with another boy on the street.
Jack, the crime boss saves Ken's life and brings him home. 20 years
later their relationship becomes father and son. Another crime boss
tries to take over Jack's business and that causes Jack's death. Ken
goes for revenge. A vengeance for his father.
Director's Bio
 Eric
Won was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. He studied sculpture at
Duk-Won Art High School and decided to become a filmmaker while in high
school. Then he started to work in production/SFX company Young-Gu Art
Entertainment as a miniature modeler. He built miniatures for a Sci-Fi
Blockbuster, D-WAR, starring Jason Behr and Robert Forster. After
getting out of the company he developed his skills as a sculptor and
won the Gold Statue for his sculpting in the 2nd Seoul Cartoon
Character Model Competition, and won 5th place the next year. He's done
several sculpting commission works for various animation companies in
Korea and produced his own kits. He came to the US in 2004 to achieve
his goal as a filmmaker. He graduated from The Los Angeles Film School
in 2006, majoring in directing. Eric has written and directed two
shorts, THE BAT, THE BIRD AND THE BEAST, a psychological thriller and
KEN, an action/Drama starring Karl Yune. He continues to write and
direct in the future and currently developing several scripts which
will be his first feature.
JANIE
Fiction Short
Length: 18 min.
Director: Christine Shin
35mm, 2005, USA
English
2006 CINE Golden Eagle Award
Finalist 2006 National Short Film & Video Competition at USA Film Festival
Winner 2006 Gold Remi Award in Short Film for Family & Children at Worldfest Houston Independent Film Festival
Co-presented by the T.O.M. Film Festival
Synopsis
 Janie,
a 9-year-old girl, has a perfect life. Her parents are happily married,
and she gets all of their love and attention as their only daughter.
One day, her perfect life gets shattered when she discovers her
family’s dark secret. Her father had a brief affair years ago and had a
little boy outside of the family. Her mother, who has known this all
along, has kept the family together for Janie with the arrangement that
the boy is raised by his own mother. Because the boy, abandoned by his
mother, unexpectedly shows up to live with Janie’s family, Janie is now
forced to learn how to live and share her life with the little brother
she never knew existed.
Director's Bio
 Born
in Korea, Christine moved to the United States by herself at the age of
16 to follow her dream as a filmmaker. She received her BA degrees in
Communication Arts and English Literature from University of Wisconsin
in Madison and her MFA degree in Production from USC School of Cinema
& TV. She was selected to direct a commercial spot, MOVIE DATE, as
one of the ten national finalists for 2004 Coca Cola Refreshing
Filmmaker's Award Contest. Her next film, JOURNEY, has received Best
Actress Award from 2004 Hollywood DV Festival and was screened at
various festivals including 2005 Sedona International Film Festival and
2005 Los Angeles Korean International Film Festival. She has been
chosen as one of the Honorees for 2005 Project Involve by Film
Independent (IFP/LA). She currently lives in Los Angeles with her cat,
Clarence. She hopes to tell stories that have heart by pursuing her
career in directing and producing.
RENDEZ-VOUS
Experimental Short
Length: 5 min.
Director: M. Weimer
Video, 2005, USA/S. Korea
English subtitles
Synopsis
 More
than 200,000 Koreans have been adopted internationally. Thousands of
these adoptees return to Korea every year to search for biological kin.
This is one woman's experience of meeting her birth mother. Conflating
the story of reunion between a long lost daughter and mother with the
trajectory of an illicit affair with a married woman, Rendez-vous
presents an intimate glimpse into a widespread transnational
phenomenon.
Director's Bio
M. Weimer is a New York-based videomaker and
artist. She has screened and exhibited her work in South Korea, Europe,
and the U.S.
WAKE
Fiction Short
Length: 17 min.
Director: Keun-Pyo Park
Video, 2005, USA
English
Synopsis
Wake is the heartbreaking story about a 5-year-old girl who spends four days
in a small apartment when her mother doesn't wake up from sleeping, and not
understanding the concept of death.
Director's Bio
Born in Mok-Po, South Korea, Keun-Pyo Park has a lot of experience in
directing, acting, shooting and editing both narrative and documentary
short films and videos on location. His most recent credits include
Wake, Mosquito Incense, and Getting to Know. Wake won Kodak Student
Award Grand Prize and the American Society of Cinematographer's Student
Heritage Award in 2004. Most recently, Wake played in Cannes as part of
the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. Park is currently a MFA
candidate in film production at the University of Texas at Austin.
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