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Here is a short You Tube video of me doing Prologue from Henry V by Shakespeare, I hope that you enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ZMT-G_WHE

Con amore,

Tony Verley

Korean Women Filmmakers: A Screening and Discussion with Yim Soon–rye

With Yim Soon–rye, Film Director

Moderated by Yunah Hong, Documentary Filmmaker
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
6:00–6:30 PM * Registration and Reception
6:30–8:30 PM * Discussion

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)

Women represent only a small minority of the Korean film industry's behind–the–camera talent, yet they make up an impressive number of the industry's top filmmakers. Acclaimed director Yim Soon–rye explores the roles that she and her fellow women directors play in the industry in her documentary Keeping the Vision Alive: Women in Korean Filmmaking. Join us as we screen Keeping the Vision Alive, as well as Yim's short film The "Weight" of Her—a satire of the expectations Korean society places on women—followed by a discussion with award–winning documentary filmmaker Yunah Hong on the role of female filmmakers in Korea today.

Keeping the Vision Alive: Women in Korean Filmmaking
2001, 52 minutes

Keeping the Vision Alive retells the history of the Korean film industry to include the contributions of its female writers, editors, cinematographers, producers and directors. Using archival footage and interviews, including with Park Nam–ok, Korea's first female director, the film relates the sexism and other challenges its subjects struggle to overcome.

The "Weight" of Her
2002, 23 minutes

This short satire surveys the hidden life of a girls' high school and the tremendous social pressure to look good.

About the Speaker

Yim Soon-rye is one of the top South-Korean directors. Her first film, Three Friends (1996), played at film festivals around the world, including Berlin, Vancouver, Seattle and Pusan, where it won the NETPAC Award (prize for best Asian film). Her subsequent films include Waikiki Brothers (2001) as well as Forever the Moment, a major commercial and critical success, and winner of the prize for best film at Korea's 2008 Blue Dragon Awards.
She received her MA from the University of Paris VIII-Vincennes, with a thesis on Kenji Mizoguchi.

Yunah Hong is a New York–based documentary filmmaker. Her film Becoming an Actress in New York was a final nominee for aMedia’s 2001 Ammy Awards for best documentary. Her other works include Between the Lines: Asian American Women's Poetry, Style Section and Through the Milky Way. She holds a BA in applied arts from Seoul National University and an MA in communications arts from New York Institute of Technology.

Buy tickets online at www.koreasociety.org, or RSVP to yuni.ny@koreasociety.org or 212-759-7525 ext.323

Good luck to find a hotel in Cannes. You better do it quickly as they are usually booked early. :)

want to see market and want to buy some films if get hotel accommdation
regards
Madhu Sehgal

Hi the festival has a rule and a policy.

email them directly if you expect them to break the rules.
I suppose the entry fee is meant to sort crap from quality.

The editor

Dear sir/madam!
i m from pakistan. i ve just done my graduation in film studies from NCA, Lahore. i(one of the first film graduate in pakistan) got distinction on my thesis work which is a short film(realistic drama about three friends), shot in rural areas of punjab. i want to send my film to canne short film festival. since, being a jobless, i don't ve 95 euro for draft, what can i do except for not participating in festival?

Hi,
This is Gargi Kulkarni from Maharashtra , India. I would like to submit my short film to cannes short film competition. Can I get information about the cannes short film competition 2009 in detail, and what I want to do to submit my short film in this competition ?

Gargi Kulkarni