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Panel Discussion Event

Art for Change: Voices of Enslaved Comfort Women in Film, Poetry, and Theatre

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May 28, 12:00 - 1:30 pm

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Zoom Meeting ID: 985 4193 2829

Passcode: 113435

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Tiffany Hsiung

Peabody Award-Winning Filmmaker

Tiffany Hsiung is a Peabody award-winning filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada and is listed as one of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40. Her latest film ‘Sing Me a Lullaby’ (2020) won the Oscar qualifying Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival, along with the inaugural Toronto International Film Festival ‘Share Her Journey Short Cuts Award’ during her world premiere at TIFF. ‘Sing Me a Lullaby’ went on to winning The Directors Guild of Canada Best Short Film Award, and is Listed as one of TIFF Canada’s Top Ten of 2020. Recently nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary. Her feature debut documentary ‘The Apology’ (2016) Tiffany received the prestigious Peabody award, the DuPont Columbia Award, the Allan King Memorial Award and over 15 international awards

 

Hsiung currently sits on the board of DOC Canada Ontario chapter and was elected as second vice-chair of the Directors Guild of Canada Ontario Executive Board in 2020 and recently invited to be part of the HOT DOCS Executive Board. Hsiung is also a member of the National BIPOC committee for the Directors Guild of Canada.

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tiffanyhsiung.com

The Apology Trailer

Instagram: @Tiffstery

Twitter @HsiungTiffany

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Emily Jungmin Moon

Poetry Foundation Award-Winning Poet

Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins, 2018), winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. She has also translated and edited a chapbook of poems, Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets (Tilted Axis, 2019). Individual poems and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has accepted awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition, the Aspen Institute, and elsewhere. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD candidate in Korean literature at the University of Chicago.

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Emily Yoon Website

Emily Jungmin Yoon on KBS World Radio

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Dimo kim

Award-Nominated Playwright

Dimo Hyun Jun Kim is a award winning director, producer and playwright. He is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and Chairman of Dimo Kim Musical Theatre Factory and Artistic Director of Nonprofit Theatre company in NY “Contemporary Asian Theatre”. Dimo made his Off-Broadway debut in 2015 with Comfort Women: A New Musical (Winner for Best Musical, Best Director, Best Actress by Broadway World Award). This marks the first all-Asian off-Broadway cast to be led by an East Asian national.  He strive to bring to stage emotionally engaging Asian stories that deserve to be told in a musical form, through collaboration multi-ethnic artists. Off Broadway: Interview: A New Musical, Green Card: A New Musical, Innermind, Comfort Women: A New Musical. Other selected credits include In The Heights, Richard III, See What I Wanna See, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Education: Columbia University (Theatre Management/Producing MFA), City College of New York (BA).

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dimokim.com

YouTube Channel

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