"Liquor Store Dreams" Screening and Q&A with CSULB Film Alum and Director So Yun Um
The CSULB Film & Electronic Arts Department, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of Asian & Asian American Studies, and Project Resilience invite you to join us in a special event screening of LIQUOR STORE DREAMS (2022, 85 minutes) followed by an extended Q&A with the documentary’s director, CSULB alumna So Yun Um, on Tuesday, March 7 from 5-8pm in the Beach Auditorium.
LIQUOR STORE DREAMS is an award-winning documentary feature film tracing back from the 1992 Los Angeles Uprisings to the current day Black Lives Matter Movement through an intimate portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners who set out to bridge generational divides with their immigrant parents and the communities they serve in South LA. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has screened at dozens of prestigious festivals around the world including BFI London and Busan in Korea.
Photo from LIQUOR STORE DREAMS, at the Skid Row People's Market.
"[B]oth entertaining and unexpectedly moving, "Liquor Store Dreams" is one of those quietly powerful films… [that proves] to have a devastating and emotional impact on all who are lucky to see it.” – RogerEbert.com
“Um’s film, expanded from her 2018 short “Liquor Store Babies”, validates the importance of representation by way of the marginalized communities it uplifts in celebratory fashion, and the empathy it effortlessly generates.” – Brett Simon, Golden Globes Awards
Visit the Liquor Store Dreams website to learn more.
