…knew of any amazing bilingual Korean kid actors. Unfortunately we didn’t, but now we know that she was working on “Minari,” written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung and financed…
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Women Make History For The AAPI Community At The 93rd Academy Awards
…only landmark win of the evening. Awards season favorite, Youn Yuh-Jung, won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Soon-Ja, the loving halmeoni “Minari,” becoming the first Korean…
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Re-cap: Get A Taste Of What Premiered And What Went Down At The Asian Pacific Filmmakers’ Experience
…looking forward to the exciting projects to come. To add to the festivities, the weekend saw the world premieres of several of those projects, like Steven Yeun’s “Minari” and Bao…
The Lookout: A New Spoken Word Film, AAPI Books to Read and an Upcoming, History-Making Baseball Game
…Ye-ri Han, Steven Yeun and Yuh-Jung Youn of “Minari.” Directors Derek Kwok-cheung Tsang of “Better Days,” Cathy Yan of “Birds of Prey” and Lee Isaac Chung of “Minari” were invited…
Behind the Scenes of CAPE and Gold House’s Gold List Initiative
Think back to some of the buzziest recent film premieres: “Minari,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “Mulan” and so many more. Yes, they all have primarily Asian…
The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: A List of 9 Hot AAPI Dads
…audiences. And if we’re frank, also his jawline. 6. Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) from “Minari” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIX03M_0D0A Unlike other installments on this list, Jacob Yi is not faced with monsters, aliens…
A Love Letter to The API Mothers Who Mothered This Year
…Monica Yi in “Minari” (the resilient mother) As Jacob Yi is causing problems and trauma left and right for his family after moving them from Korea to rural Arkansas in…
Disaster Film ‘Twisters’ Storms to the Top of the Box Office
…“Minari” in 2020, which starred Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri and Youn Yuh-jung. “Minari” is a semi-autobiographical story of Chung’s childhood in rural Arkansas after his family immigrated from Korea. The…
The Lookout: Major Wins Start Off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
…Best Supporting Actress for her role in Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari.” In addition, R&B musician H.E.R. became the first Filipina American to win Best Original Song. Her song, “Fight for…
The Snubs and Successes of the 2022 Emmys
…series made completely in Korean, for Korean audiences, would gain such acclaim and popularity across the globe? With the success of “Parasite,” “Minari” and now “Squid Game,” Hollywood seems to…
High Tempers and Trauma Make for Good Television in Netflix’s ‘BEEF’
A24 has garnered praise for its release of titles like “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Minari.” While audiences await what’s next on their film slate, this year, they pivoted…
APIs Who Took the Super Bowl by Storm
…and Philip Seymour Hoffman premiered last night. The 2024 film “Twisters,” directed by A24’s “Minari” director Lee Isaac Chung, features a storm-chasing crew made up of Daisy Edgar Jones, Glen…
