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  2006 San Francisco Korean American Film Festival  
     
     
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- Program Schedule
- The Event
- About the 2006 SFKAFF
- The Unique Aspects of 2006 KIMA Festival
- About KIMA

  
     
     
     
  Program Schedule  
 
Date Time Title Tkt. Minutes Format Venue
2/7
(Tue)		 7:15 -
9:15pm		 (Opening Filim)
Duelist with Q&A		   111 35 mm Presidio
  *Refreshments served during the opening night        
2/8
(Wed)		 7:15 -
9:15pm 		Double Agent   123 35 mm Presidio
  9:15 -
11:15pm 		Spring in My Hometown   120 35 mm Presidio
  10:15 -
11:00pm 		Documentary (Future Rockstars.., Texas Doughnut shop, Shimtuh, Pilots Are Badass)

Cancelled: Shimtuh (TBA Substitute)		   45 Video Coppola
2/9
(Thu)		 6:30 -
8:00pm 		2-4-1   80 Video Knuth Hall
  7:00 -
9:00pm		 Murder, Take One   115 35 mm Stanford
  7:15 -
9:15pm 		Media Forum:
Portrayals of Koreans in the US Media: The impact on Korean Americans
       SFSU
  7:15 -
9:15pm 		Silmido   135 35 mm Presidio
  8:30 -
11pm 		Repatriation   149 Video Coppola
  9:15 -
11:30pm		 JSA   110 35 mm Presidio
2/10
(Fri)		 3:00 -
5:00pm		 Academic Symposium   120   Stanford
  6:45 -
7:45pm		 North Korea: Beyond the DMZ   56 Video Coppola
  7:00 -
9:00pm		 Duelist with Q&A   111 35 mm Stanford
  7:15 -
9:15pm 		Voice with Q&A   104 35 mm Presidio
  8:00 -
8:45pm 		Short Narrative 1 (Los Coyotes, Tears)   45 Video Coppola
  9:00 -
10:00pm 		And Thereafter   56 Video Coppola
  9:15 -
11:00pm		 Shiri with Q&A   120 35 mm 4 Star
  10:15 -
11:15pm 		Korean Short Selection (The End of the Road, Wind Story, Mom, I’ll go to Pyungyang,
My Computer)
   55 Video Coppola
2/11
(Sat) 		11:00 -
1:00pm		 Thematic Forum:
Korean Film and Two Koreas		   120   Pickwick Hotel, San Francisco
  1:00 -
3:00pm		 A Long and Winding Road   98 35 mm 4 Star
  1:30pm Macho Like Me   - Video SFSU
  4:45 -
6:20pm		 A State of Mind   93 Video Coppola
  5:00 -
7:30pm 		Taegukgi with Q&A   148 35 mm Stanford
  6:30 -
7:30pm 		Short Narrative 2 (An Ode to Margaret Cho, Companion, Sherampo, Sex and Coffee, Snapdragon)   53 Video Coppola
  7:15 -
9:15pm 		Murder, Take One   111 35 mm Presidio
  7:40 -
9:00pm 		The Grace Lee Project   68 Video Coppola
  9:15 -
10:20pm 		The Flower Girl (North Korean)   120 Video Coppola
  9:15 - 11:15pm Duelist with Q&A   115 35 mm 4 Star
2/12
(Sun)		 1:00 -
3:00pm 		Industry Forum:
American Market and the Korean Film Industry
   120   Pickwick Hotel, San Francisco
  1:00 -
3:00pm 		A Bold Family   120 35 mm 4 Star
  1:45 -
2:45pm		 Umma   60 Video Coppola
3:00 -
4:20pm		 The Game of Their Lives   80 Video Coppola
  4:30 -
5:35pm 		Short narratives 3 (Wake, Midnight in Perfect World, Harlequin)   65 Video Coppola
  4:00 -
6:30pm 		Taegukgi (Closing Film) with Q&A   148 35 mm Presidio
 
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  The Event  
  The only festival in the United States that celebrates the Korean American media arts and brings together Korean and Korean American filmmakers, the 4th San Francisco Korean American Film Festival will be held February 7 to 12, 2006, at Presidio Theatre and 4 Star Movie Theatre in San Francisco, August Coppola Theatre in San Francisco State University, and Cubberley Auditorium in Stanford University.

As was the norm in past KIMA festivals, this year’s festival program is comprised of three folds: 1) Film screenings and a forum based on the annual theme. 2) Special screenings of contemporary Korean films and public forums. 3) Screening of Independent films by Korean American filmmakers and a media forum.

1. Thematic Program
Film Screening: 8 Features, 4 Shorts from South Korea, 3 Documentaries, and 1 North Korean feature

The theme of this year’s festival is “Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image through the Media Arts.” The festival will feature 8 South Korean feature films, and 4 short narratives and 4 documentary films dealing with the Korean experience caused by the tragic division between North and South Korea. In particular, the festival committee has selected films reflecting human stories of Koreans who are often confused and troubled by the vicious ideological divide in Korean society. The invited films have been selected to help festival-goers understand how Koreans have imagined and dealt with the idea of the “two Koreas” throughout the modern era.

Feature Films
  • Spring in My Hometown 아름다운 시절 (1998, South Korea, Dir. Kwang Mo Lee)
  • Shiri 쉬리 (1999, South Korea, Dir. Je-Gyu Kang)
  • JSA 공동경비구역 (2000, South Korea, Dir. Chan Wook Park)
  • Double Agent 이중간첩 (2003, South Korea, Dir. Hyun Jung Kim)
  • Silmido 실미도 (2003, South Korea, Dir. Woo Seok Kang)
  • Repatriation 송환 (2004, South Korea, Dir. Dong Won Kim)
  • Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War 태극기 휘날리며 (2004, Dir. Je-Gyu Kang)
  • A Bold Family 간 큰 가족 (2005, South Korea, Dir. Myung Nam Cho)
Short Narratives
  • The End of the Road 여기가 끝이다 (2003, South Korea, Dir. In-Jae Park)
  • Wind Story 바람 이야기 (2002, South Korea, Dir. Jong-Kwan Kim)
  • Mom, I’ll go to Pyungyang 엄마, 나 평양갈게요 (2002, S. Korea, Dir. Kee-Bum Kim)
  • My Computer 내 컴퓨터 (1999, South Korea, Dir. Kyun-dong Yeo)

Documentaries
  • The Game of Their Lives 일생일대의 승부 (2002, UK, Dir. Daniel Gordon)
  • North Korea: Beyond the DMZ 북한 비무장 지대 저편 (2003, USA, Dir. JT Takagi & Hye Jung Park)
  • A State of Mind 어떤 나라 (2004, UK, Dir. Daniel Gordon)

Thematic Forum:
Korean Film and Two Koreas
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2. Contemporary Korean Film
Korean New Wave: 4 Features

The South Korean film industry is enjoying unprecedented popularity domestically and abroad. This special program celebrates the success of Korean films and introduces 4 recently released films to Northern California. KIMA aims to expose these new films to the American film market, providing a rare opportunity for the general public to experience a wide array of recent Korean films, including horror, mystery, action, and family-oriented movies.
  • Murder, Take One 박수 칠때 떠나라 (2005, South Korea, Dir. Jin Jang)
  • Duelist 형사 (2005, South Korea, Dir. Myung-Se Lee)
  • Voice 목소리 (2005, South Korea, Dir. Ik-Hwan Choi)
  • A Long and Winding Road 엄마 (2005, South Korea, Dir. Sung-Ju Koo)


Industry Forum:
American Market and the Korean Film Industry

Academic Symposium:
Globalization and Contemporary Korean Cinema
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3. Korean American Media Arts
Film Screening: 7 Documentaries and 10 Narratives

Over the years, the few media images of Korean Americans have included the gun-toting Korean immigrant grocer, the inarticulate foreigner, or the model minority straight “A” student. These images are one-dimensional and are not constructed or presented by Korean Americans. A goal of this program is to bring together stories through the media arts that represent the diverse experience of Korean Americans. The festival will showcase 17 documentaries and short narrative films selected through a highly competitive open call.

Documentaries
  • Umma 엄마 (2005, South Korea, Dir. Hohyun Joung), And Thereafter 그리고 그 후(2003, USA, Dir. Hosup Lee), The Grace Lee Project 그레이스 리 프로젝트 (2005, USA, Dir. Grace Lee.)
  • Documentary I: Future Rockstars of America (2005, 5 min.), Texas Doughnut Shop (2003, 21 min.), Shimtuh (cancelled, a TBA film will substitute), Pilots Are Badass (2002, 10 min.)
Short Narrative Films
  • Short Narrative I: Los Coyotes (2005, 21 min.), Tears (2005, 24 min.)
  • Short Narrative II: An Ode to Margaret Cho (2004, 5 min.), Companion (2000, 3 min.), Sherampo (2005, 6 min.), Sex and Coffee (2004, 13 min), Snapdragon (2005, 26 min.)
  • Short Narrative III: Wake (2005, 17 min.), Midnight in a Perfect World (2005, 16 min.), Harlequin (2005, 32 min.)

Media Forum:
Portrayals of Koreans in the US Media: The impact on Korean Americans
 
 
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  About the 2006 SFKAFF  
  KIMA proudly presents the 4th SF Korean American Film Festival. The theme of this year’s festival is “Beyond Borders: Demystifying the Korean Image through the Media Arts”. The objectives of this event are three-fold:

1) To undo the misrepresentation of Koreans by portraying media by South, North and American Koreans
Our festival seeks to present media art that voices the Korean American experience. This includes stories about identity, heritage, family, history, loss and racism. Who are Korean Americans? Despite the fact that Korean Americans have been present in the United States for some 100 years, the stories of Korean Americans too often remain invisible or on the margins.

2) To encourage and facilitate dialogue about, and to remove the stigma of, the division of North and South Korea
This festival’s second goal is to encourage and facilitate interactions and dialogue among Korean American media artists and Korean filmmakers. We hope to create an international community and network that transcends borders. Moreover, we seek to create an open, critical dialogue among those in the audience and those involved as media makers about how Korean identity has been altered, changed and transformed globally.

3) To provide an ongoing space for dialogue about Korean and Korean American films
Through its’ website and its annual festival, we hope to create a long-term space for discussion about Korean and Korean American representation in the media. We hope to provide an alternative, critical perspective of the media images of Koreans that have been presented to the mainstream public in the US and abroad.

The hope of this festival is that the general public will gain a deeper understanding of the diverse experiences of both Koreans and Korean Americans. And in these times of unstable relations with North Korea, we aim to shed light on a country, misunderstood through American movies, media, and press. The aim is to focus on the human perspective of division rather than the highly political situation between the two Koreas.

As was the norm in past KIMA festivals, this year’s festival program is comprised of three main elements: 1) Film screenings and a forum based on the annual theme. 2) Special screenings of contemporary Korean films and public forums. 3) Screening of Independent films by Korean American filmmakers and a media forum.

We would like to thank our dedicated KIMA staff, supporters, festival goers, and all of whom love Korean and Korean American media arts. We look forward to meeting you, and we hope you have an enjoyable experience at the 2006 SFKAFF! Thank You. 		 
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  The Unique Aspects of 2006 KIMA Festival  
 
  1. For the General Public
    It is once a year event in which the general American audience can enjoy rare films made by Koreans and Korean Americans.
  2. For the Participating Distributors and Guests
    Those participating films and filmmakers will be exposed to American film community located in San Francisco where all the major postproduction players are housed: Pixar Animation Studios, Lucas Film, PDI/Dreamworks, The Orphanage, Tippett Studio, Giant Killer Robots, Wild Brain, and Industrial Light & Magic. Also, San Francisco is known as a film city maintaining an interesting distance from Hollywood mode of production thanks to the strong tradition of independent film spirit while hosting San Francisco International Film Festival and NAATA Asian American Film Festival. In particular, from this year, the KIMA festival will be held in the historic Presidio Theatre as a Korean film hub, thus providing a greater venue for Korean distributors to meet potential buyers on the spot.
  3. For the Participating Film Scholars
    This festival provides distinguished film scholars with the meaningful opportunity to meet industry professionals from domestic, San Francisco indie community, and Korea.
 
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  About KIMA  
  KIMA is a Korean-American media arts organization founded in November 2000 with an objective of serving a growing constituency that includes Korean film and video makers, media scholars and students, and the local Korean American community in Northern California. As a non-profit organization KIMA is dedicated to the development of Korean American media arts in American society. Members of KIMA are currently composed of Korean, Korean-American, and American students and professors at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, Academy of Art University and Stanford University. We have a passion for visual art and are eager to explore various aspects of media such as media aesthetics, media production, media industry, and emerging media technologies. As we extend our activities of audio-visual arts through events, seminars, and studies, we expect that more members from diverse cultural backgrounds will join us. These film and video movements are aimed at establishing a constructive media culture that enables the members to see Korean and American visual arts from their own distinctive yet complementary perspectives. We strongly believe that these activities will eventually help develop both Korean and mainstream visual arts.  
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