Big Happiness | Going Places | 2021 Atlanta Film Festival

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Growing up and going out in the world, these films ponder coming of age with all the candor and fearlessness of youth.

BIG HAPPINESS is a meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.

This film is in the Documentary Short Competition.

MEET THE FILMMAKER: DA HEE KIM

Da Hee Kim (Seoul, South Korea. 1988) is a transnational/transracial adoptee who grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis in a white family and community. She is based in Duluth and Los Angeles. Her work deconstructs the narrative of international adoption through a personal lens. She is interested in ethnographic filmmaking practices that allow those represented on the screen to participate in shaping the way the frame is viewed. Her work has screened at the Austin Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Boston Asian American Film Festival, and San Diego Underground Film Festival. Da Hee is a MFA film/video candidate at CalArts in Valencia.

MEET THE FILMMAKER: MATTHEW KOSHMRL

Matthew Koshmrl is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer with an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. His work has played at The Jeonju International Film Festival, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, DocumentaMadrid, and True/False Film Festival. Matthew personally focuses on cinema vérité documentary films that explore the evolution of tradition, individual and national identity, and unseen processes.

Year
2020
Runtime
15 minutes
Language
English
Country
USA, South Korea

Director
Da Hee Kim & Matthew Koshmrl
Producer
Da Hee Kim, Matthew Koshmrl
Cast
Da Hee Kim, Linda Miller, Mike Miller, Hojung Audenaerde

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Closed captions available

Big Happiness

A meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.

Closed captions available

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