PB&J 29 & Migrant Worker Film Fest!

PB&J #29: Multimedia Benefit Showcase

Sunday August 17, 2008

6 pm at Agitpunk in Hongdae

All proceeds go to Migrant Trade Union

Films, poetry in translation, novels in progress, acoustic guitars, and comedy!
Please save the date, details will be posted in just a few days!

MIGRANT WORKER FILM FEST screenings are held at Jogyesa Korean Buddhist Culture & History Memorial Hall is the multi-story glass building located across from Jogyesa Temple (map to Jogyesa here: http://international.jogyesa.or.kr/default.asp)

OPENING PARTY, Saturday August 9

9 pm at Jin Mo No “hof” in Insadong (2^nd floor)

Performances from Stop Crackdown, Nepalese folk artists, African drummers and more.

10,000won gets you a free drink & snacks!

SCHEDULE

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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILMS BY SECTION

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Contact: Linda Kwon, Migrant Worker Film Festival Programmer

mwff.korea@gmail.com

MORE ABOUT THE FILMS

OPENING FILM: DESHANTORI (‘migrant’ in Bangla), this documentary interviews scholars and people on the street to present a view of why so many young people feel they need to leave Bangladesh in order to become successful. Interwoven with these interviews is the true story of the 26 men who tried to cross the Sahara desert on their way to Spain.

MIGRANT LENS: Set aside for films made by migrants themselves, this year features seven short films. Two documentaries are made by Central Asian women married to Korean men, while a more whimsical view from a Chinese woman coping with cultural difference with her Korean husband. Another documentary is about a migrant worker band here in Seoul.

INSIDE CULTURE: The first is a drama from southern India called VANAJA about a young girl learning traditional dance, but this coming of age film combines love and laughter, with heartache and tears. The second film is a documentary from Rome, Italy called THE ORCHESTRA OF PIAZZA VITTORIO about a multiethnic orchestra that comes together to save a theater from destruction in one of Rome’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods.

Migrant Worker Film Festival

Friday August 8 – Sunday August 10, 2008