CEAPS Events Calendar

AsiaLENS - “CHOSEN” (Film Screening & Discussion w/ Filmmaker Joseph Juhn)

Event Type

Film Screening

Sponsor

CEAPS; Spurlock Museum of World Cultures

Location

Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801)

Date

Feb 14, 2023   7:00 - 9:00 pm  

Speaker

Joseph Juhn

Cost

Free and open to the public

Contact

Jason Finkelman

E-Mail

finkelma@illinois.edu

Views

232

With only two Korean Americans elected to U.S. Congress since 1903, five Korean Americans run for U.S. Congress in 2020. CHOSEN offers a glimpse within the campaigns of these candidates with vastly diverse backgrounds and competing political views including David Kim, the only underdog with limited resources vying to be the first gay Korean American representative.

An award winning lawyer turned filmmaker, Joseph Juhn has a passion for telling diasporic narratives. His second feature documentary “CHOSEN” had its World Premiere at the Jeonju International Film Festival in May 2022. The complex dynamics of Korean American communities represented in the film will be further explored in our post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

*Free and open to the public

(Joseph Juhn | 2022 | USA | 89 minutes)

Co-sponsored by Spurlock Museum of World Cultures.