Topics: Film, Writing, Representation, Story telling
Title : The Stars Aligned: A conversation with writer of Korean American Witches Society
Participants: Jennifer Kim, Writer, Producer, Film maker, Journalist and former Teacher
Publish Date: 06/08/2024
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Conversation Topics:
- Short film: Korean American Witches Society (2023)
- WRITER : Jennifer Kim
DIR: Michael K.Y. Yip
PRODS: Jennifer Kim, Medha Jaishankar
CAST: Hailey Soomin Lee, Viva Lee, J.J. Joo, Taehee Kim - How did this project come about?
- What is it like to grow up in Appalachia Ohio as Korean American?
- How do you find Korean American Witches association (KOWA) in UCLA?
- Is the short film Korean American Witches Society, a coming-of-age story based in real life?
- How does a script project go from preparing to film on a phone and end up transitioning into a professional film production with a union crew?
- How did the stars align in April 2023 in order to make this film?
- Why did so many professionals volunteer to support this project?
- How do we express on film the feelings of belonging?
- What happens to our dreams when we do not wait for them to happen?
- How do you set design for film about a Korean immigrant family in the 80’s set in Ohio?
- How did we learn to be comfortable as Asian American?
- Why do so many people think they can write a film script?
- How do you learn to make a film?
- What is film school like?
- Do you need to go to film school in order to make a film?
- Is education free now?
- Do you need to follow the three-act structure of storytelling?
- What are experimental films?
- Have you seen the film All of us are strangers (2023)?
- Why do we connect to coming of age stories?
- Can the audience read authenticity and sincerity in the script?
- Why do we write?
- What is the difference between writing a script and writing a personal essay?
- The short film Korean American Witches Society will be shown in the film festival, Dances With Films, June 23 at 4:15 pm PST.
link: KOREAN AMERICAN WITCHES SOCIETY | Dances With Films
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