Strangers' Reunion
Short Film
8min | English + Korean I 2019
Director I Liz Sargent
Producer | Louis Figgis
Creative Director | Adam Day-Lewin
Creative Copywriter | Catherine Jarvie
Co-Producer | Rebecca Mills
Director of Photography | Sam Goldie
Editor | BettyJo Moore
Mentor | Mike Figgis
Starring
Sue Jean Kim & Michelle Okkyung Lee
"THIS FILM COULD HAVE BEEN SILENT & THE EMOTION WOULD STILL HAVE BEEN EFFECTIVELY DELIVERED."
-Speaking Human
•Produced with Ritz Carlton & Hearst; Harpers Bazaar & Esquire; RSA Hong Kong, Final Cut New York, Jungle Sound London, Glassworks London; Released internationally in 6 languages.
• IMDB
Mira, a Korean-American adoptee travels to Hong Kong to meet her birth mother for the first time. Impulsively, she invites Yura to visit her in her hotel suite the day before their official meeting in the hope that they’ll find a connection ‘before a translator gets in the way’. However, with only a basic understanding of each other’s languages and, to varying degrees, their own guilt and prejudices, misunderstandings threaten their tenuous attempts at connection.
AWARDS
Brand Film Festival (BEST SCREENPLAY)
Ritz-Carlton & Hearst Screenplay Competition
BEST DIRECTOR - Diversity in Cannes Film Festival
BEST WORLD FILM - SoHo Int'al Film Festival
BEST WORLD ACTRESS - SoHo Int'al Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Covan Film Festival
Hollyshorts Screening
Bushwick Film Festival
Post Alley Film Festival
Berlin Feminist Film Week
Nevada Women’s Film Festival
Boston Asian American Film Festival
DC Asian Pacific Islander Film Festival
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival
St John’s International Women’s Film Festival
Female Eye Film Festival (Nominee Best Short)