COURSE BLOG for GWSS 3307: Feminist Film/Media Studies (Fall 2007)

1 - name, short bio, background info on filmmaker (and image if you can find it)
Kim So Young, 37, Korean woman, who married Korean producer and worked with him to make her movie. The day after So Yong Kim’s directorial debut, In Between Days, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival,

2 - names, short summary of any of their work
In Between Days, 2006)…Filmed almost entirely in Korean with non-professional actors, Days’ entrancing vérité tracks young Aimie (Jiseon Kim) and her budding, unrequited love for her best friend Tran (Taegu Andy Kang). Amy’s struggles adapting to foreign culture partially reflect those of the filmmaker, who moved to America from her native Pusan, Korea, when she was 12.

In Between Days is a love story, so hopefully it can reach out to other people who are not Koreans and not immigrants but [who] relate to growing up

3 - any reflections on their work (if you are able to view), and post link to the work and/or homepage
She said it was first time writing a scenario and she focused to write about Aimie’s whole life. But But she realized that it will get to complex to picture all of Aimie’s life and she had to cut and edit her story again. I though that this is what helped this movie great, because it became easy and simple. I think deduce complex to make it simple is good. That’s why I liked the movie.

4 - where you've found them (and/or where their work shows)
I found So Young’s information through Filmmaker magazine's "Top 25" to watch article. However I knew about her before and I started to search on Korean web site, because it is easier for me to find info there. Not like America, I think that Korean people are more aware of Korean woman filmmaker and their work. Even people don’t realize whose work it was, they are more interested to watch woman filmmaker’s production as they seem they are open mind to them.
5 - how easy/difficult it was for you to find these women (the where are the women ?)
It was not difficult to find her work and about her because there were so many articles about her (in Korean). Maybe it is my mistake that there are more woman filmmakers who haven’t had spotlight and assume that everything seems okay to me. I don’t know. But I know Koreans are hybrid movie watcher and they are aware of responding woman filmmaker’s voice.