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Biography Jiseon Kim, age 21, was born and raised in South Korea, then immigrated to the US in 1999. She currently attends the Parsons School of Design in New York, majoring in Communication Design.
When she was a girl, Jiseon dreamed of becoming an actress, but her strict parents encouraged her to study something practical. After she was approached by So Yong to be in the film, Jiseon could not believe her luck. It was a chance for her to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Her parents were not so easily convinced. So and Brad had to get a letter of recommendation from Sundance programmer Trevor Groth to convince them that they were legitimate filmmakers. After finally agreeing to let Jiseon do the film, her parents then asked if Jiseon should get cosmetic surgery on her teeth and nose to be in the movie.
Jiseon currently has one dimple, which is a result of a childhood accident. When she was five she fell down some stairs and landed with side of her face on a nail. It bruised badly then turned in to a dimple. Her parents still can't believe their good fortune that Jiseon got such a cute dimple for free. They want her to do the other side. Source Open the link | |
Director Espouses Intuition in Filmmaking (Source)
[MOVIE REVIEW] 'In Between Days' and 'Let's Not Cry!' show visual audacity (Source)
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 By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
The script usually plays an integral part of filmmaking, but it is virtually non-existent for internationally acclaimed director Kim So-yong. For the 39-year-old, intuition, spontaneity and creating everything from scratch with amateur actors are the special ingredients.
The Korean-American made an international breakthrough with her first film "In Between Days" (2006), winning awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival among others. She is now back in Korea for her next project "Treeless Mountains", with support from the Cannes Cinema Foundation.
"You always have to keep (gut feeling and intuition). It's like natural instinct. Sometimes I think people forget it because you're trained to behave in certain ways, trained to fit into society... But I think it's really important for the creative process to keep your sense of intuition", she said in an interview with The Korea Times at a cafe near Hongdae, northern Seo...| More |
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"In Between Days" and "Let's Not Cry!" share striking similarities: Korean directors, exotic (at least in the eyes of Korean audiences) locations, and refined experimental spirits which earned the filmmakers awards at international film festivals.
"In Between Days", a debut feature by Kim So-yong, a Korean American multimedia artist, delves into the life of a Korean immigrant who has to deal with not only the strangeness of adapting to a new culture but also a sense of loneliness that deepens along with her faltering relationship with a boy she has a crush on.
This Sundance and Berlin prize-winner, to be released nationwide on Sept. 6, literally zooms in on Aimie (Jiseon Kim), a teenage girl who recently arrived in a North American city. But she finds it hard to find a comfortable place. She's already bored with her school, thanks largely to her poor English, and even the small apartment where she lives with her divorced mother looks dreary as the depressing winter cityscape the ...| More |
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Director KIM So-yong's "In Between Days"' US release kicked off on June 27 at the New York IFC Center. From New York, the film will travel to more US destinations.
"In Between Days" premiered – in KIM's former hometown - at last year's Pusan International Film Festival. The film has been invited by numerous international film festivals since, and won several awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision at the Sundance Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The quiet story about a young Korean immigrant girl – played by Jiseon KIM - in the US, struggling to adapt to a new life and her feelings for her friend – portrayed by Taegu Andy KANG - was supported by KOFIC through the 2006 KOFIC Marketing Support for Diversity program.
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