Category: Arts & Culture

A Conversation With Nicolas Archambault, Director of Asian Programming, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Tom Vick, Curator of Film Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution. Moderated by Samuel Jamier, Co-Director New York Asian Film Festival and Rufus de Rham, Director of Operations for Subway Cinema, organizers of the New York Asian Film Festival.

Boasting record box office numbers and critical accolades from the major film festival circuit, Korean cinema has seen a spectacular boom. New blood has pumped life into the Korean film business, while established Korean filmmakers have been making their Hollywood debuts (Kim Jee-woon with The Last Stand, Park Chan-wook with Stoker, and Bong Joon-ho with the Korean-produced English-language Snowpiercer). Industry commentators and observers have talked about a “renaissance” or even a new “golden age” of Korean cinema, after the sluggish recovery from the slump of 2007-08.

The Korea Society and the New York Asian Film Festival, working together to promote multi-cultural collaboration, are delighted to present Nicolas Archambault, Director of Asian Programming, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Tom Vick, Curator of Film of the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution. They will consider the prospects of Korean cinema, for the near and long term, in the context of its recent achievements.

 

Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | 6:30 PM

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On February 21^st, 2014, The Korea Society hosted a public screening of Daytime Drinking, Director Noh Young-seok’s breakthrough first film, at the New York Film Academy’s Battery Place Campus. After the film, the director answered questions for the audience on his career, filmmaking techniques, and plans for future projects.

 

 

Friday, February 21, 2014 | 9 AM

 

If you have any questions, please contact Estefanía Lee  or (212) 759-7525, ext. 313.

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

 

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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

 

Join us for a private screening of Divided Families, a recently completed documentary about Korean Americans’ search for lost relatives in North Korea, 60 years after Korea became a divided nation. During the Korean War and its aftermath, hundreds and thousands of family members were separated in the chaos of the war, and then by the border that was drawn establishing North and South Korea. More than half a century later, there are an estimated 100,000 first generation Korean Americans with immediate family members in North Korea. This documentary is their urgent story, as time is running out for this generation to reunite with their family and loved ones.

Directors Jason Ahn, Eugene Chung, and producer Jieun Baek will be present to introduce and discuss the making of this documentary which involved dozens of production crew filming in three countries over four years.

 

(50 minutes, 2013)
Directed by Jason Ahn and Eugene Chung
Produced by Jieun Baek, Evangel Fung, and Jennifer Tsay

 

 

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 | 6:30 PM

 

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, 8th floor
New York, NY 10022

 

 

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Co-presented with KoreanAmericanStory.org

 

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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

 

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 Contemporary Culture programs are generously sponsored by CJ