Kristy Choi is a Korean American filmmaker and writer. She directed and wrote Herselves, a 9-minute-long coming-of-age documentary which was first shown at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in October 2020.[1] The film is experimental and explores the life of Choi's mother, who immigrated to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s.[2] Choi was a 2019 Southern Exposure Film Fellow, a 2019 North Start Fellow at Points North Institute, and a Directing Fellow at Visual Communications in 2020.[3] Her film Conviction was a 2020 Official Selection for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "HERSELVES". 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ Mathew, Teresa. ""Herselves" Makes Motherhood a Work of Art". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ "Kristy Choi". Brown Girls Doc Mafia. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ "Conviction". Wild & Scenic Film Festival. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
- ^ "2020 Wild and Scenic Film Festival: Conviction | Blowout". wsff2020.sched.com. Retrieved March 11, 2021.