EXCLUSIVE: New Yorker video producer Christopher Hwisu Kim will be heading to the Sundance Film Festival this week as an all-expenses paid guest of The Black List and Cassian Elwes. “It’s an immense honor to be the recipient of the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, especially because E.S.L.
is a deeply personal story centered on a family that looks and sounds like mine,” the Brooklyn-based filmmaker told Deadline. “It’s long been a dream of mine to add to the rich but underappreciated legacy of Asian American filmmakers—and now, thanks to Mr.
Elwes and The Black List, that dream feels more possible than ever before,” Kim added. Submitted late last year for consideration for the 10th consecutive Fellowship program, Kim’s E.S.L.
feature script tells the tale of a Korean-American woman in a hurry to relearn the language of the peninsula in an effort to speak with her ailing mother before she dies, and the surprise she gets as she learns more.
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