The 51st Seoul Independent Film Festival will raise its curtain with #DearYouUnrelated, an experimental film that reimagines #ParkNamOk 's 1955 classic #TheWidow, and Korea's first feature directed by a woman.
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“I am eager to see that our women in Korean filmmaking are going to produce better works and advance to the globe. This is why I would like to live even only one day more."- #ParkNamOk
#ApresGirl was a newly coined term, after the Korean War, refers to the independent women that emerged after the war. It starred #LeeSoyeon as #ParkNamOk, the play allows viewers to gain an insight into Park as a woman who suffered failures but never gave up her enthusiasm for film.
#ParkNamOk is considered the first female korean director in history of cinema. An award, given by the Seoul International Women's Film Festival, is named after her and the first time it was given out was in 2008 to fellow director #ImSoonRye.
#ParkNamOk' s The Widow was written by her husband, and her sister helped set up a production company, called Sister Productions in order to be able to produce the film. Sadly, it did not attain commercial success and her directing career was over.
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During the Korean War, #ParkNamOk worked on a war film where she met her husband, Lee Bo-ra.
Park shot her film, #TheWidow, in the winter of 1954 and with her infant child carried on her back. She also provided meals for her staff during the shooting of the film to save production costs.
#ParkNamOk was involved as a scripter on the 1947 film, #ANewOath, directed by #ShinKyeongGyun, a story about three men living under Japanese colonialism, whom break the injustice and corrupt customs of their hometown and rebuild the devastated village with the help of the village girls.
After Korea's liberation from Japan, #ParkNamOk started working for the Chosun Film Company. She was introduced into the studios by the director, #YoonYongkyu, who she knew through a friend.
It was not easy for #ParkNamOk to pursue her dream. At university, the housemistress told her off for wanting to be a film director, instead of the wife of a high-ranking official.
She attended the Ewha Women's Professional School, but dropped out to work as a film critic in a newspaper.
Women's History Month: Day 19
As a young woman, #ParkNamOk loved movies and attempt to attend Uneno Art School in Japan, now Tokyo University of Fine Arts, but was thwarted by her high school, which only allowed students to apply for Nara Women's School of Education.
Im received the #ParkNamOk Award for outstanding achievement from the 10th International Women's Film's Festival in Seoul, and won Woman Filmmaker of the Year at the 9th Women in Film Korea Awards. Forever the Moment won Best Film at the 44th Baeksang Arts Awards & the 29th Blue Dragon Film Awards.
#KeepingTheVisionAliveWomenInKoreanFilmmaking, an homage to pioneers #ParkNamOk and #HwangHyemi, and contemporary directors #ByunYoungJoo and #JangHeeSun. Im's unobtrusively let the filmmakers discuss their experiences and struggles in the male-dominated, conservative, sexist Korean film industry.
