Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho is calling on his fellow filmmakers to use their medium to respond to the racism and hate directed towards Asian and Black communities. “I’m far away in Korea and I have to see everything in the news from an outsider’s perspective, but as someone who is a part of mankind, as a person, it’s quite fearful to watch the hate crimes against Asian-Americans and the BLM movement,” he says during a virtual masterclass with Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in California.
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