Our program focuses on diversity and passion, rather than polish and production value. A variety of formats are represented including, narrative, documentary, experimental, music video, and MOS. Themes include mothers, fantasy, and gangsters. Korean filmmakers (distinguished from Korean American) are also incorporated into the mix.

Portrait of a Mother is a short documentary film about Young Kim, who is an avid painter, full time mother and daughter. The film is currently being expanded, further investigating the reasons behind why she had stopped painting for several years, exploring past relationships with her parents.

Suel Kim is a graduate student at New York University's Dramatic Writing program. He has written and directed several short plays, films and documentaries related to Korean identity and race relations in America. Suel is an alumnus of New York University's East Asian Studies and Tisch School of the Arts Film & Television Departments.

On this final journey, a mother and son contemplate their last remaining moments together.

Jae-Ho was born in Seoul, Korea on one very hot summer day. He came to the States in his early teens and later attended the Rhode Island School of Design studying film, video, and animation. He currently attends the graduate film program at Tisch/NYU and is a recipient of the Martin Scorsese Young Filmmakers Scholarship and the Ang Lee Scholarship Award.

Harold's father's philandering ways drive his mom to seek a drastic solution. Late one summer night in 1978, Harold unexpectedly finds her sitting in his father's beloved red Corvette. This moment will forever burn in his memory: the moment his mother betrays him.

Upon graduating from the University of Chicago, Dennis Lee joined Teach for America, a non-profit organization that places recent college graduates in rural and urban school districts experiencing chronic teacher shortages. During his years in the classroom, Dennis taught kindergarten, 1st grade, and co-founded an art-based charter school for at-risk middle students in Houston, Texas. He then moved to New York City in the fall of 1999, to attend Columbia University's M.F.A. Film Program. While at Columbia he has written several feature scripts and has directed a number of short films. Completed in the spring of 2003, his thesis film, Jesus Henry Christ, has received numerous awards. The film will continue its festival run through the fall of 2003, concluding in the summer of 2004.

He yearns for something at the beach. When she comes, he's not sure, but he is no match for her. They bask at the pool. For a moment he's happy and content, which is the moment she needs more. She plays aloof, and he must play along to her final demise.

David intends to make American films from the Korean American perspective. He obtained his J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center and now attends the graduate film program at Tisch/NYU.

Video set to the Pixies' "Monkey Gone to Heaven."

See David's bio above under "Willing."

This project documents a couple eating cream of rice for breakfast in a way that highlights cultural differences between the two.

Born and raised in S. Korea, So Young Yang is a video artist / filmmaker currently based in New York City. While exploring such issues as social ideals in relation to perceptions of the body, self, and environment, etc., her work also experiments with reconstructing ephemeral moments found in our daily lives to reveal unexpected qualities. In working with these subjects, she blurs the lines between video and digital arts, documentary and commercial aesthetics. Her work has been shown in the U.S., Europe, Brazil and in East Asia.

Steve is searching for a sense of belonging in the world. School wasn't for him, and corporate America made him feel like an underachiever. The only place where he feels a sense of inclusion is the underworld of Koreatown, where outsiders have a sense of camraderie. But loyalties run deep, and uncontrolled, leads to violence. One night after an altercation, Steve finds himself too deep in the scene. When Kyung Min unexpectedly shows up to "help" him out with his situation, the stakes are heightened and he must make a decision that will change his life.

Eubin Kim is a founder of Underscore Media, a New York event planning and marketing company that specializes in brand development and marketing consultation within the Korean American community. Underscore Media has created experiential brand campaigns for clients ranging from the New York Korean Film Festival to Citigroup, and has hosted events and some of New York City's trendiest nightlife destinations. Underscore Media also publishes the Koreanxchange Newsletter, a bimonthly newsletter listing events within the Korean community. His interests lie in avante-garde Asian-American arts and media culture, and the stories that more accurately depict stories of the Asian American diaspora experience.

Ken, a homeless boy gets picked up by Jack, a crime boss. 20 years later, their relationship grows into father and son relationship. Rival crime boss tries to kill Jack and take over his business. Now, Ken has to protect his boss who is his only family.

Eric Won was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. He studied sculpture at Duk-Won Art High School but decided to be a filmmaker while in high school. Then he started to work in production/SFX company Young-Gu Art Entertainment as a miniature modeler. He built miniatures for a Sci-Fi Blockbuster D-WAR, starring Jason Behr and Robert Forster. Eric has won the Gold Statue for his sculpting in The 2nd Seoul Cartoon Character Model Competition and won the 5th place, next year. He's been a freelance sculptor for several years and has done numerous sculpting commission works for various companies including Samsung and LG. In 2004, he moved to U.S. to achieve his goal as a filmmaker. He recently graduated from The Los Angeles Film School, major in directing. Eric has written and directed two shorts. The bat, the bird and the beast, a psychological thriller and Ken, an action/drama starring Karl Yune. He is continuing his career as a film director and currently developing his next project which will be his first feature.

Drawing comparisons to The Simpsons, Airplane!, and other comedy legends, Dr. Miracles shows a world quietly awaiting that polymath Randall Park to grace it with another dose of his life-giving excretions.

Randall Park is a Korean-American comedian and actor. Park was born and raised in Los Angeles, California to Korean parents. He made his acting debut in 2003 in the short film Dragon of Love. He has made guest appearances on NBC's Four Kings, Las Vegas, and ER. In 2005 he co-wrote and starred in the feature film American Fusion, which won the Audience Award at the Hawaii International Film Festival. He is currently a castmember on MTV's Wild 'N Out. Park also portrays "Gizmo Lee" in segments of AZN TV's XBytes.

Henry, a brilliant scholarship student at a strict Catholic school, gets sent to the tyrannical headmaster for his unconventional beliefs. Dennis Lee's tight camera angles and wry humor convey religion's sometimes intolerant and stifling atmosphere, and Henry inspires us all to believe--in something.

See Dennis' biography above under God Is Good.