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Home > Romance > Getting Married to a Vietnamese Girl
Getting Married to a Vietnamese Girl
2005, DV 6mm, color, 15'13
Dir: LEE Mi-rang
Keyword: Drama,Comedy,Romance
Special Program, 5th Asiana Int’l Short Film Festival (2007, Korea)
Korean Shorts Section, 6th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
Best Film Award, 4th Mise-en-scène’s Genre Film Festival (2005, Korea)
Audience Award, 7th Jeongdongjin Independent Film & Video Festival (2005, Korea)
National Shorts Section, 2nd CJ Asia Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)
One day, Ki-nam received the flyer from a strange foreign woman in a subway train:
The Flyer says that 'Getting Married to a Vietnamese Girl'.
She, named virgin and considered as a stranger, feels the mood of love.
In front of her passion, naturally blooming but naturally withering, I felt compassion.
These days, I am used to seeing lots of complications between private feeling of love and official level of status, those are compassion itself, even though it is a contradiction.
LEE Mi-rang

Born in 1983, Hap-chon
Graduated from Seoul Institute of the Arts, Dept. of Film
Seoul Institute of the Arts, Dept. of Creative Writing 

2003  [Hello, Goodbye] 16mm, b/w, 2min.
          Korea Digital Film Festival (2004, Korea)
2005  [Getting Married to a Vietnamese Girl] 16mm, color, 15'13"
          Special Program, 5th Asiana Int’l Short Film Festival (2007, Korea)          
          Korean Shorts Section, 6th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2005, Korea)
          Best Film Award, 4th Mise-en-scène’s Genre Film Festival (2005, Korea)
          Audience Award, 7th Jeongdongjin Independent Film & Video Festival (2005, Korea)
          National Shorts Section, 2nd CJ Asia Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)
2007  [The Bath] 35mm, color, 19’30”
          10th LGBT People of Color Film Festival (2013, USA)
          Uitmarkt festival in Amsterdam (2012, The Netherlands)
          TranScreen goes Cavia (2012, The Netherlands)
          1st Pink Life Queer Film Festival (2011, Turkey)
          TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival (2011, The Netherlands)
          5th OUTVIEW Athens Int'l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (2011, Greece)
          2nd One Queer Film Festival (2011, USA)
          22nd Paris Int'l Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival (2010, France)
          Competition, 18th Sacramento Int'l Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (2010, USA)
          Transgiving Film Festival (2010, USA)
          3rd Divergenti Int'l Film Festival (2010, Italy)
          20th Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival (2010, Canada)
          Out at the Movies LGBT Festival (2010, USA)
          Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival (2010, Canada)
          24th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (2010, UK)
          8th Brussels Pink Screens festival (2009, Belgium) 
          Competition, 20th Hamburg Int'l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival(2009, Germany)
          3rd Iris Prize Festival (2009, UK)
          Grand Jury Award, 27th OUTFEST-Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival(2009, USA)
          2nd Asian Queer Film and Video Festival (2009, Japan)
          25th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival (2009, USA)
          Panorama, 24th Torino GLBT Film Festival (2009, Italy)
          19th Melbourne Queer Film Festival (2009, Australia)
          Fusion 2009: 6th Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival (2009, USA)
          Int'l Competition, 9th Seoul Int’l Film Festival (2008, Korea)
          3rd XPOSED Int’l Queer Short Film Festival Berlin (2008, Berlin)
          20th NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival (2008, USA)
          Competition, Busan Asian Short Film Festival (2008, Korea)
          5th Syracuse Int’l Film and Video Festival (2008, USA)
          Competition, 33rd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2007, Korea)
          6th Korean Film Award (2007, Korea)
          Wide Angle, 12th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2007, Korea) 
2013  [Chunjung] 28’35”
         Jury's Special Mention, Busan Student Award, Audience Award, 30th Busan Int'l Short Film Festival (2013, Korea)
         Asia Short Film Competition, 15th International Women's Film Festival in Seoul (2013, Korea)
        18th IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum 2013 (2013, Korea)
Director/screenwriter/music: LEE Mi-rang
Producer: SEO Jung-doc
Production: Seoul Institute of the Arts
Assistant Director: KIM Jung-a
Cinematography: LEE Young-sang
Editing: LEE Eun-mi
Lighting: KIM Kyeong-hun
Mixing: PYO Yong-su
Recording: SEO Il-geun
Art: KIM Bok-hee
KIM Ki-nam as Ki-nam
KANG Min-seon as Vietnamese Girl
SHIN Cheol-jin as Father