Community film screening Light for the Youth & conversation with the director Shin Su-won

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When:
9 April 2022 @ 14:30 – 17:45
2022-04-09T14:30:00-04:00
2022-04-09T17:45:00-04:00
Year 4

Community film screening Light for the Youth & conversation with the director Shin Su-won

Saturday, April 9, 2022 @ 2:30PM – 5:45PM EDT
Innis Town Hall Theatre, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto
*Please register (https://bit.ly/lightfortheyouth) in advance for this event

Synopsis
Seyeon is a manager at a company called 'Human Network' and lives with her daughter Mirae. Her company manages collecting overdue credit card bills, and recently corporate has been pressuring her due to her low numbers. June, who is a commercial high school student, wants to be a photographer but works at Seyeon's call center for the money. Through tragic incidents, Seyeon realizes that she was the part of the system. The film comments on precarious labor conditions and hardships especially on women and the youth.

DIRECTOR | SHIN SU-WON
Shin Su-won is a film director and screenwriter. Shin wrote and directed PASSERBY #3 (2010), CIRCLE LINE (2012), PLUTO (2013), MADONNA (2015), GLASS GARDEN (2017), LIGHT FOR THE YOUTH (2019) and most recently HOMMAGE (2022). Shin is renowned for innovative cinematography, astonishingly creative narrative structure, and social messages and her films were invited and awarded in many prestigious international film festivals. In particular, in 2015, MADONNA was invited to screen in the Un Certain Regard section of the 68Cannes Film Festival.

Please note:

*The film is in Korean with English subtitle
*The Q&A will be bilingual in Korean and English with interpretation
*Open to public. Tickets are free of charge. Please register in advance due to the limited seating numbers
*The door opens at 2:00 PM, and the film starts at 2:30 PM
*The current health regulations to follow for an event are:
1] Everyone must remain masked while inside Innis College and Innis Town Hall
2] Internal UofT audience members to show valid "green" Ucheck at the day of the event
3] External UofT audience will be checked for vaccination proof/ID with the Verify Ontario app and have a health screening protocol.

 

This event is organized by Hong KAL (Visual Art and Art History, York) and Hae Yeon Choo (Sociology, University of Toronto). This event is presented by the Korean office for Research and Education (KORE) at York University, which is funded by the  Academy of Korean Studies. This event is co-presented by the Centre for the Study of Korea (CSK) at University of Toronto and the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) at York University.

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