Events & Panels

Unique Events and Panels are planned for our 5th Anniversary:

OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 3/17 6:00-11:45PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas.
Buy tickets HERE.
$45 regular ($30 students/seniors 65+)

Schedule:

6-730PM Opening Reception – food by Don’s Bogam and beverages.
730-8PM Opening remarks by Vivian Lee, NY 1 News
8-830PM Eugene Park performs with DJ Spooky
830-1030PM MADAME FREEDOM (Korea, 1956), directed by Han Hyung-mo
Live rescore by DJ Spooky, performed by cellist Okkyung Lee and violinist Sean Lee.
1045-1145PM PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY (2010), directed by Peter Bo Rappmund

LA RIOTS 19 YEARS LATER, screenings + discussion
with Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Charles Burnett, and Mrs. Jung Hui Lee
Saturday 3/19, 5-8PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas.
Buy tickets HERE.

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, now 19 years later. This event will be held after the film screenings.

KAFFNY TALKS: Filmmakers Panel
Saturday 3/19, 12-130PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas.
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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. Moderated by Hosik Kim, a KAFFNY programmer.

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is an award-winning NY-based documentary filmmaker originally from northern Korea, who has aired multiple films about the Korean diaspora nationally on PBS. She started her filmmaking career in her 50s after a prodigious career in government at the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. She brings a pioneering Korean American perspective to the panel.

Soopum Sohn is a NY-based filmmaker, originally from Korea who recently directed his debut feature film, Make Yourself at Home, with Korean and Korean American themes, starring Song Hye-Gyo. He is also an established cinematographer, including on the film Sa-Kwa, starring Moon Sori. He studied extensively in the US before settling here. He brings a Korean context to this panel.

Peter Bo Rappmund is an emerging LA-based artist/filmmaker from Colorado toeing the line between art and cinema, with no apparent Korean American themes. He has rubbed shoulders with legends like Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage, Thom Anderson, and James Benning. His film psychohydrography is a milestone achievement in independent filmmaking, uniquely bridging the moving image and still photography, with a one man crew. He is of Korean and German blood. He brings an avant-garde angle to the panel.

Janice Ahn is an emerging NY-based filmmaker from California working in both narrative and documentary forms, who recently graduated from Tisch School of the Arts. Her thesis film Triangle, stars Korean American and Korean cast, and won the Directors Guild of America Jury Award in 2010. She is currently working on her first feature length film, a documentary. She is a fresh face in film for the panel.

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