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 TIGER SPIRIT (73 minutes) Canada/North Korea/South Korea Director: Min Sook Lee Producers: Min Sook Lee, Ed Barreveld Description: The psychic scar shared by millions of people, separated from their families during the Korean War in the 1950s, is symbolized by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing communist North from capitalist South. Tiger Spirit begins in the Korean foothills, where the filmmaker Min Sook Lee joins videographer Lim Sun Nam in his obsessive quest to prove tigers still live in the DMZ's swath of wilderness. A powerful symbol of resilience in Korean mythology, the tiger once roamed the peninsula, but is thought extinct in the region. Lim believes finding the tiger will reconnect Koreans to their spirit and fuel the reunification train. But a tiger's stripes extend beyond its fur. Inspired by her desire to understand the country she left as a child when her family moved to Canada, Lee takes us deeper than symbols, asking the crucial question-how will the two Koreas be put back together? Biography: Min Sook Lee is a writer, broadcaster and an award-winning director/producer. In 2006 she released the short docu-poem Borderless, a film about undocumented workers in Canada. Her feature documentary, Hogtown: The Politics of Policing was awarded Best Feature-length Canadian Documentary at the 2005 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival. Her first feature El Contrato, produced by the NFB of Canada, was nominated for the Gemini award for Best Social/Political Documentary in 2005. Min Sook was also presented with the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award for El Contrato's impact on the rights of migrant workers. Ed Barreveld has been an independent filmmaker since 1996, line-producing documentaries for broadcasters such as the CBC, BBC, A&E and TV Asahi. In 2000, Barreveld co-founded Storyline Entertainment Inc., and produced the award-winning feature documentaries Aftermath: The Remnants of War followed by Shipbreakers. Other productions include Bruce & Me, an Australian/Canadian co-production, A Whale of a Tale and the shorts Dem Bones and Age of Iron. Contact Information: Dylan McGinty National Film Board of Canada 1123 Broadway, Suite 307 New York, NY 10010 E-mail: d.mcginty@nfb.ca Web site: http://www.tigerspirit.ca |
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