Texas director seeks Korean speaking actor

Forwarded: a request by a director in Texas looking for a Korean American Actor or an Asian American Actor who can speak a little Korean. If you are interested you can send her an email at hlee@mail.utexas.edu

"Basically, my film is a SAG waiver student short (experimental contract) which means DEFERRED PAYMENT and possibly a small stipend if I really like her (@$400-500). Shooting will be in Austin, TX so I would also pay for airfare/accomodations/transportation/food + of course a copy of the work. The actor can also be non-union, shit I don't care as long as they can act.

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SOPHIE FILM SYNOPSIS:
Sophie (narrative, 30 minutes, 16mm, color) follows a day in the life of ten-year-old Sophie who finds herself caught in the daily struggle of coping with her family members. Desperate for attention and yet repeatedly rejected by her mother and sister, Sophie finds comfort in the companionship of Louis, a 55-year-old African American man who hasn't spoken to his own son in years. Together, this odd couple forms an unsuspecting friendship which provides Sophie with a sense of human connection that is otherwise absent in her home and school life. It is uncertain however whether Sophie will escape the cycle of violence that engulfs everyone around her. Love, fear and survival collide in the middle of the night when Sophie hears Margaret fighting off their father's sexual advances and is forced to make a brutal choice - to save her sister or to protect herself.

CAST BREAKDOWN / CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
KYUNG HAE LEE - Sophie's mother (mid 30s to 40s) A woman who wants out of her abusive marriage with her alcoholic husband. She loves her two daughters but feels that her husband has brainwashed them, and therefore she does not feel like they are fully hers. She looks to Father Kwak the Catholic community priest for guidance. Her behavior towards him suggests that she is in love with him.

WRITER/DIRECTOR&Mac226;S BIO - Helen Haeyoung Lee
Helen was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Brown University in 1993 with a BA in International Relations. For two years, she worked at the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) in Boston as the organization&Mac226;s Arts & Culture Coordinator where she organized two separate community art installations: "Threading History: The Japanese American Internment" and "Welcome to Asian America II: Visualizing a New World." Her video installation THE CONVERSATION which explores the language barriers between first and second generation Korean/Korean Americans was a central piece in the "Welcome to Asian America" exhibit.

For the last four years, Helen has been a graduate film student at the University of Texas at Austin. Her film, Mr. Liu, had its world premiere at the 1996 Asian Cinevision VIDEOSCAPE video festival. Helen was chosen as a Liberace Scholar in 1998 and was the recipient of the 1998 Women in Film - Dallas, Topaz Scholarship Award. At the 1997 Cinematexas International Film and Video Festival, Helen won the Low-Budget Award for her short film Let it Rain. Her>pre-thesis film The Keeping won the Cinematexas 1998 Cinematography Award and screened earlier this year at the 1999 New York Women&Mac226;s Film Festival. Earlier this fall, Helen was one out of twelve recipients in TX to receive a Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund grant. Along with writing and directing her own films, Helen has also DPed five graduate student films. She won the Cinematography Award for Texas Pawn a fellow graduate student's film.

PRODUCTION INFO:

AUDITION DATES: TBA
REHEARSAL DATES: TBA
SHOOTING DATES: MARCH 2000 (8-10 days)
PAYMENT:SAG Experimental Agreement - DEFERRED PAYMENT
CONTACT: Helen Lee
PHONE: 512.707.6881
EMAIL: hlee@mail.utexas.edu
SEND INFO TO: Hellion Productions, 1406 Hillmont St.,
Austin TX 78704

*****IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AUDITIONING, PLEASE CONTACT HELEN EITHER BY PHONE OR EMAIL AND SEND RESUMES TO ADDRESS ABOVE.*****