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‘Sarajin’ Writer-Director Justin Kim WooSŏk On Poking Holes in The “American Dream” Through A Korean Immigrant Experience In Alaska — HollyShorts Film Festival
The writer-director talks to Deadline about the making of his Korean American short film 'Sarajin'
When the snow crab that he and the rest of the fishing village depend on suddenly disappear due to climate change, he and his family have to decide whether to stay or leave their new home behind. Here, the filmmaker talks to Deadline about displacement, life out on the ocean and wanting to poke holes in the follies of the American Dream to show a nuanced breadth of the immigrant experience. This is actually a fun story because, I think, for a lot of POC or immigrant filmmakers, sometimes it’s really difficult to find that perfect combination of someone who is of a certain age or generation that has a certain fluency in the native language and has acting experience.
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