CLOSING NIGHT AT VAFF WITH GRACE PARK

Canadian Premiere | Grace Park in Attendance

THE VAFF Festival closes with VAFF 2005 alum Michael Kang’s second feature film, WEST 32ND. John Cho and Jun Kim star in this story about an ambitious lawyer who finds himself thrust into a sordid world of hard realities and moral compromises. Also featuring Vancouver talent, Grace Park, WEST 32ND takes us inside New York’s gritty Koreantown underworld. Preceding is the stylish PERMUTE, about an animated woman caught within a film noir setting and the journey within.

Director: Michael Kang | Producers: Teddy Zee, Miky Lee | Writers: Michael Kang, Edmund Lee
Narrative | DigiBeta | Colour | 2007 | 91 minutes | USA

When John (John Cho), an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen year-old boy from a first-degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan.

Infiltrating the knotty and complex realm of organized crime to search for clues, he meets his match, Mike (Jun Kim), a rising soldier in the syndicate. Recognizing John’s determination and daring, Mike brings John into his confidence, furtively drawing him into his own plans to rise within the underworld. Though they become fast friends, they just as quickly end up trying to use each other as they discover they’ll both do anything to win.

Previous Screenings: Tribeca Film Festival, Pusan Int’l Film Festival, DisOrient Asian American Film Festival, Newport Beach Int’l Film Festival, San Francisco Int’l Asian Film Festival

NEW ORLEANS

So Life is just grand isn't it??? I of course while in TO ALWAYS (well when possible) stay with my family who hail from Mississauga. So being the GREEN person that I am - I do transit (and I must say I do it rather well!!!)...

Now I'm Leaving Norms's MUDBATH - (OOPS I MEANT BBQ!!!) and just minding my own bizness (REALLY I WAS)...

I'm nearing the end of the Mississauga route, when the fellow in front of me - turns to the guy across the aisle and asks him a question. The guy across the aisle says to him - you should ask HER!!! And remember I don't know what the question is, I don't LIVE HERE, and well you get the jist.

It just so happens that he wanted to know when his stop would be - which was EXACTLY MY STOP - (NOTE TO KATHERINE - YOU COULD BE ENJOYING ALL THE FUN INSTEAD OF TAKING THOSE CABS)!!!

So we get off - and I went - okay so there's the street you're looking for - AND he says he thinks he knows where he's going now - which is home, but he hasn't been here for a while. So I said well I don't know where you live - but where did you return from??? He says New Orleans, and I said HOLMES ON HOLMES??? And he said YES!!! HE WAS MIKE JR!!! SMALL, SMALL, SMALL WORLD!!!

So we chatted for a bit about the project, and who the house had been built for who sounds like a VERY kind caring and deserving individual and I can't wait to see the episode.

So THERE - TAKE TRANSIT AND SEE WHERE IT TAKES YOU!!!

xxxxxx
oooooo