Short Takes: METRO ES PARA TODOS
Filmmaker Highlight: Eurie Chung of METRO ES PARA TODOS
CineVue was privileged to speak with Eurie Chung, a filmmaker whose film METRO ES PARA TODOS is featured in the shorts program SHE'S YOUR QUEEN.
CINEVUE: Won’t you please tell us a little about yourself? Are you a filmmaker full-time? Where are you based?
EC: I am an editor, based primarily in L.A.
CINEVUE: Would you describe your film in brief?
EC: METRO ES PARA TODOS is about a badass Korean Grandma who organizes in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
CINEVUE: What is special about filmmaking for you?
I like that films reach across all sorts of boundaries.
CINEVUE: How many films have you made?
EC: I have just the one, and it came to be petty much by accident.
CINEVUE: Who would you say are your biggest creative influences and why?
EC: My parents. Having creatively frustrated immigrant parents makes me want to do something with the freedom and opportunities I have.
CINEVUE: Please describe one blessing and one curse during the production of your film?
EC: A very great blessing was befriending Grandma Kim.
A very great curse was having to edit 8 hours into 10 minutes.
CINEVUE: What is the one Asian/Asian American film that has had the biggest impact on you?
EC: WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena.
CINEVUE: What are you looking forward to at the 07 AAIFF?
EC: Cringing in the back of the theater, hoping people will like my film (if I make it out to NY for the
screening!)
Catch METRO ES PARA TODOS in the shorts program SHE'S YOUR QUEEN on Thursday July, 26th at Asia Society.