‘Sarajin’ Writer-Director Justin Kim WooSŏk On Poking Holes in The “American Dream” Through A Korean Immigrant Experience In Alaska — HollyShorts Film Festival
deadline.comWhat happens when you’ve exhausted all options and cast your last line of hope into the sea of unattainable American Dreams?
This is the question posed by co-writer and director Justin Kim WooSŏk in his Korean American short film Sarajin. Making its debut at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, the story follows an unobtrusive but diligent snow crab fisherman (Jongman Kim) struggling to make ends meet for his immigrant family.
When the snow crab that he and the rest of the fishing village depend on suddenly disappear due to climate change, he and his family have to decide whether to stay or leave their new home behind.
Here, the filmmaker talks to Deadline about displacement, life out on the ocean and wanting to poke holes in the follies of the American Dream to show a nuanced breadth of the immigrant experience. DEADLINE: How did you end up in filmmaking?
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