And thereafter / by Hosup Lee.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Lee, Hosup.

Series:

Filmakers library online.

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wike, Young-Ja.

Korean War, 1950-1953--Women--Korea.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

War brides--Korea--Biography.

War brides.

Women immigrants--United States--Biography.

Women immigrants.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 min.).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2004.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

This multi-festival film is a portrayal of the fortitude of an immigrant "war bride" in America. Seventy-six-year-old Young-Ja Wike is one of the 10,000 Korean women who married American G.I.s. after the war. For them marriage was the only escape from the crushing poverty of post-war Korea. "Grandma" lives in South Jersey with her uncaring, rather brutish husband in a kind of domestic servitude. She has brought up three unappreciative children, working doggedly to feed the family and run the household. On her own she cultivates a colorful garden of chili peppers which she dries and sells. Never having learned English, she is isolated from the community, and from her family as well. "Grandma" opens her heart to the Korean filmmaker, revealing the pathos of forty years in exile.

Notes:

Originally released as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Director's Choice, Black Maria Film Festival, 2004

Special Jury Award, Hawaii International Film Festival,2004

Silver Dove Award, Leipzig International Film Festival, 2004

Vancouver, International Film Festival, 2004

Bergen (Norway) International Film Festival, 2004

Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal, 2004

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2003

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2004

Asian American International Film Festival, 2004

Best Film Award, Seoul Independent Film Festival, 2003

OCLC:

747799235