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Strangers' Reunion

The Stay / A Strangers Reunion / 30Sec Teaser
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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) 

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