• Urban 2011

    Urban 2011

    kaffny Urban, NYC’s unique annual arts event arrives Sunday, Nov. 13th, 3-9PM at Bar Basque in midtown, facing the 30′ outdoor LED screen at the Big Screen Plaza. kaffny Urban serves as a platform for local and international artists to promote their projects to new and diverse audiences in New York City. This year kaffny Urban presents an eclectic evening of film and music, hosted by DJ Spooky and featuring a tribute to Nam June Paik in collaboration with WHITE

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  • Call for Entries KAFFNY 2012

    THE FESTIVAL The 6th Annual KAFFNY will take place March 2012. KAFFNY is an international independent film festival in NYC, starting and evolving from Korean American perspectives. Films do not necessarily need to be made by and/or starring Korean Americans. Please refer to our past programs as guidelines for eligibility. CALL FOR ENTRIES We are now accepting entries for KAFFNY 2012. The deadline is Sep. 30th, 2011. Early entries will get better attention. There is no entry fee. Feature Program: Narrative or

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  • KAFFNY Open Audition 8/20-21

    KAFFNY Open Audition 8/20-21

    KAFFNY’s first Open Audition will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 20th and August 21st at Bennett Media Studios at 723 Washington Street. All aspiring Korean/Korean American actors of all ages, levels of experience, language ability are encouraged to participate and have a chance at being cast in upcoming NY film and TV productions. All aspiring directors/producers of all levels of experience are encouraged to apply to view the Open Audition to cast their projects. Schedule: Saturday, August 20th 10:00am-2:00pm KAFFNY

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2011 Film Festival Program

  • KAFFNY Open Audition 8/20-21

    KAFFNY Open Audition 8/20-21

    KAFFNY’s first Open Audition will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 20th and August 21st at Bennett Media Studios at 723 Washington Street. All aspiring Korean/Korean American actors of all ages, levels of experience, language ability are encouraged to participate and have a chance at being cast in upcoming NY film and TV productions. All aspiring directors/producers of all levels of experience are encouraged to apply to view the Open Audition to cast their projects. Schedule: Saturday, August 20th 10:00am-2:00pm KAFFNY

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  • After Party (Sat): DJ Spooky and Eugene Park

    After Party (Sat): DJ Spooky and Eugene Park

    Join us for the after party tonight, (Sat, 3/19) at Cabanas at the Maritime Hotel, with DJ Spooky and Eugene Park! Starts 11ish. Admission with any KAFFNY ticket or $

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  • KAFFNY 2011 Clips

    KAFFNY 2011 Clips

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  • Made In Korea: A One Way Ticket Seoul-Amsterdam?

    Made In Korea: A One Way Ticket Seoul-Amsterdam?

    Thursday 3/17, 2-315PM, Chelsea Clearview (free!) MADE IN KOREA: A ONE WAY TICKET SEOUL-AMSTERDAM? (Netherlands/Korea, 2006, 72min) directed by In-Soo Radstake                   In-Soo Radstake arrived in Holland from Seoul in 1980. Adopted as a baby by a Dutch couple he is now searching for his true identity. His search takes him along the eight other adopted persons who came with the same flight to Holland. He also visits the orphanage in Seoul

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  • Blue & White Concert: Book of Changes

    Blue & White Concert: Book of Changes

    Thursday 3/17, 330-430PM, Chelsea Clearview (free!). BLUE & WHITE CONCERT: BOOK OF CHANGES (2010, 59min, raw footage) Artistic direction by Vongku Pak With Blue and White: Robert Aaron (saxophone), Eddy Jo Martinez (electric guitar), Jorge Mesa (bass guitar), Aleksei Stevens (interactive electronics) Book by Vongku Pak, Hosik Kim           Blue and White Concert: The Book of Changes is an experimental world music performance, which fuses between traditional Korean rhythms with contemporary Western music. The concept of

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  • 30 Second Trailer

    30 Second Trailer

    30 Second Trailer for TKC (The Korea Channel)

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  • Works by So Young Yang

    Works by So Young Yang

    Friday 3/18, 7-745PM Big Screen Project (free). Saturday 3/19, 6-730PM, White Box (free) w/ Q&A. 7FILMS: SLIGHTLY FANTASTIKAL VOLUME I (2009, 23min)     This work is the first volume of the 7 FILMS series, a collection of interlocking videos about the lives of five human characters, along with two shorter sequences set in an urban environment. Built out of audio and visual materials filmed as “real situations” in the characters’ lives, this work is a reconstruction / reconfiguration /

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  • LIVE RESCORE: Madame Freedom (1956)

    LIVE RESCORE: Madame Freedom (1956)

    OPENING NIGHT, Thursday 3/17, 830-1030PM. Buy Opening Night tickets HERE. MADAME FREEDOM (Korea, 1956) directed by Han Hyung-mo Live rescore by DJ Spooky, performed by cellist Okkyung Lee and violinist Sean Lee.           Watch a very special presentation of the controversial film that kicked off Korea’s Golden Age of Film, with a live rescore by DJ Spooky, performed by cellist Okkyung Lee and violinist Sean Lee! Madame Freedom is a romantic melodrama depicting the extramarital dalliances

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  • KAFFNY TALKS: Filmmakers Panel

    KAFFNY TALKS: Filmmakers Panel

    Saturday 3/19, 12-130PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas (free).           KAFFNY TALKS: Filmmakers Panel Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime discussion with four filmmakers, from diverse backgrounds and using film in very different ways as artists. The discussion will focus on the how they plan on pushing the film medium and if and how their identity informs their work, and whether that is even relevant. Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is an award-winning NY-based documentary filmmaker originally from northern Korea, who

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  • Shorts 2

    Shorts 2

    Friday 3/18, 12-230PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. Saturday 3/19, 8-1030PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. INERT (2010, 6min) directed by Kyunghee Kang World Premiere             This film starts with a girl’s dream narrated by a man as through it were his dream. She is confused by whether she was really a bird in the dream or she was just the person who dreamt the dream. Director Kyunghee Kang

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  • LA RIOTS 19 YEARS LATER: Sa-I-Gu/Wet Sand/Olivia’s Story + discussion

    LA RIOTS 19 YEARS LATER: Sa-I-Gu/Wet Sand/Olivia’s Story + discussion

    Saturday 3/19, 5-8PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. LA RIOTS 19 YEARS LATER, discussion with Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Charles Burnett, and Mrs. Jung Hui Lee           Join Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, acclaimed African American director Charles Burnett, her collaborator on her LA Riots films, and Mrs. Jung Hui Lee, the central subject of both LA Riots films, for a discussion of the LA Riots, 19 years later. This event will be held after the film screenings.

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  • Shorts Competition

    Shorts Competition

    Friday 3/18, 6-830PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. Sunday 3/20, 5-730PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. Meet the Shorts Competition Jury. RICHARD THE ELITE UNIVERSITY STUDENT FROM LONDON (2010, 28min) directed by Yong-seung Lee International Premiere             Dong Suk, who is studying to become a civil tax accountant, finds a part-time job of arranging documents at a tax accountant’s office. There Dong Suk meets Tae In, a University student from London.

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  • Shorts 1

    Shorts 1

    Friday 3/18, 3-530PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. Friday 3/18, 9-1130PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. WORKS OF ART (2010, 19 min) directed by Andy Pang           Meet Art Hahn (Paul Juhn), whose days are a blur of demoralizing auditions and bleak temp jobs-just another actor numbed by the New York struggle. One day, an unusual proposition from his friend, John Kim (Ken Leung), jolts his system like never before.

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  • WOMEN AND WAR: Silence Broken/The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger

    WOMEN AND WAR: Silence Broken/The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger

    WOMEN AND WAR DOUBLE BILL! (Buy one get the other free) Silence Broken: Sunday 3/20, 12-2PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger: Sunday 3/20, 230-430PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas. Buy tickets HERE. Saturday 3/19, 730-9PM, White Box (free). SILENCE BROKEN: KOREAN COMFORT WOMEN (1999, 88min) directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson               Silence Broken is a powerful documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the

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  • A Forgotten People/Motherland

    A Forgotten People/Motherland

    Saturday 3/19, 2-430PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A.  Buy tickets HERE. A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: THE SAKAHALIN KOREANS (1995, 59min) directed/written/produced by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson               The film is about the forced Korean laborers on Sakhalin island, the victims of World War II and the Cold War. They were initially indentured by Japan, then in 1945 fell into the hands of a new master, the Soviet Union, where they were forgotten for half a century. Washington City Paper,

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  • NORTH KOREA: Centre Forward/Red Chapel

    NORTH KOREA: Centre Forward/Red Chapel

    NORTH KOREA DOUBLE BILL! (Buy one, get the other free) Centre Forward: Saturday 3/19, 130-3PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas. Buy tickets HERE. Red Chapel: Saturday 3/19, 3-430PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas. Buy tickets HERE. CENTRE FORWARD (North Korea, 1978/2010 digital remaster, 75min) directed by Pak Chong Song               Centre Forward, the country’s first football film originally made in 1978, now rereleased and remastered by Koryo Tours. This 75 minute film is well known in North Korea

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  • The Boat

    The Boat

    Saturday 3/19, 5-730PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. Sunday 3/20, 8-1030PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas w/ Q&A. Buy tickets HERE. THE BOAT (2009, 114min) directed by Young-nam Kim starring Jungwoo Ha, Satoshi Tsumabuki                         Hyung-gu, a young Korean, visits Japan by boat three or four times a month to help with middle-aged Bo-gyung’s smuggling business. It is always Touru, a young Japanese man, who welcomes him there.

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  • The House of Suh

    The House of Suh

    A Good Son is Committed for Life

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  • psychohydrography

    psychohydrography

    OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 3/17, 1045-1145PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas. Buy Opening Night tickets HERE. Friday 3/18, 6-9PM, White Box (free) w/ Q&A, Gallery World Premiere!; 6-7PM, 745-845PM, Big Screen Project (free). PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY (2010, 62min) directed by Peter Bo Rappmund                                                     Film is officially dead. This digital cinema project embodies an evolutionary milestone beyond imax flicks Baraka

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