'New Friend', Official Selection at the Flanimation

 

'New Friend' WON the Best Animated Commercial Award at LIFANIMA 2021

 'New Friend' WON the Best Animated Commercial at the Lagos International Festival of Animation, LIFANIMA 2021

New Friend: Animal Welfare PSA

Honors:
Best Animated Commercial Awards: Lagos International Festival of Animation, LIFANIMA 

Screenings: 
Flamination (Jacksonville, Florida/US)
Genesis International Film Festival (Moscow, Russia)
Lagos International Festival of Animation, LIFANIMA (Lagos, Nigeria)

ReAnimania International Animation Film & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan (Yerevan, Armenia)

Finalist: 
Los Angeles Animation Film Festival (Los Angeles, California/US)

'Three' A list of film festival screenings

Awards:

Director's Choice Awards

- The 40th Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival

Diamond Awards, Best Experimental Short

- The 5th Mindfield Film Festival

2020
Aug. 20-22         Animation Block Party (Brooklyn, New York) 
Aug. 22-30         Iso Film Fest (Online)
Dec. 17-24         VAST LAB Experimental Film Festival (Los Angeles, California)

Dec. 22-Jan. 2    Palm Springs Int'l Animation Festival (Palm Springs, California)

2021
Feb. - Dec.         Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival (New Jersey)

Mar. 24-28         Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)

Mar. 25-28         Moving Image Arts Int'l Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)

Jul. - Aug.          Mindfield Film Festival (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Oct. 7-14           Tacoma Film Festival (Tacoma, Washington)

Oct. 24-28         BanjaLuka International Film Festival (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Nov. 24-26        Animation Marathon (Attika, Greece)

2022

Date TBD          Kansas International Film Festival (Overland Park, Kansas)

Date TBD          Les Femmes Underground Film Festival (Los Angeles, California)

'Three' at the Animation Marathon in Greece

 

'Three' at the Tacoma Film Festival

 

'Three' won the Diamond Award in the Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque

 

'Three' at the "Oxford Film Festival"

in the FAST FORWARD experimental program

'Three' at the "Moving Image Arts International Film Festival"

 

'Three' received the Director's Choice Awards from the historic 40th Black Maria Film Festival

 'Three' received the Director's Choice Awards from the historic 40th Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival.

What a great honor...

'Three' at the "VAST LAB Experimental Film Festival"

 

'Three' at the ISO Film Fest

 'Three' is selected for the ISO Film Fest, which is a special collection of films made during the 'ISO'lation during the pandemic. 

'Three' world premiere at the Animation Block Party in August

My new film, 'Three' will have its world premiere at the Animation Block Party in August.
Normally the festival is held in New York: this year's festival moves to virtual platform due to the pandemic situation. The screening will be free with a suggested donation for the Covid-19 and/or Black Lives Matter orgarnization. I will share more details soon.

New experimental film, 'Three'

I completed a new experimental film, 'Three'.

One week experiment based on a quote from 'Walden by Henry David Thoreau':

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

A creation out of my impulse wanting to re-examine and re-evaluate the relationships with one another. Sound/Music by Walter Santucci

'Ahco on the Road' Theatrical Release in France on Dec. 4th.

My film, 'Ahco on the Road' has had its THEATRICAL RELEASE in France on December 4th, and now is screening in over 70 theaters in France! I wish I were there.

It is programmed with a title, [Premiers pas dans la forêt] along with films by a Russian filmmaker, Veronica Fedorova. Distribution by wonderful people at the 'Les Films du Whippet'.

So if you are in France, look for my little elephant in theaters... near you!

Diary 2013-2018

Diary 2013 - 2018: a list of screenings

2018

Nov. 20-28 PÖFF Shorts: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia) 

2019

Feb. 6-10 Oxford Film Festival (Oxford, Mississippi)

Feb. 21-24 Animac: Open Screen (Lleida, Spain)
Jul. 8-11 Boston Short Film Festival (Boston, Massachusetts)
Aug. 28-29 Altered Esthetics Film Festival (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Oct. 3~13 Mill Valley Film Festival (Mill Valley, California)
Oct. 9-13 Santa Cruz Film Festival (Santa Cruz, California)

2021

Oct.         FlickFair Film Festival (Online)

Honorable Mention:
Experimental Forum (LA, California)
LA Animation Festival

'Diary 2013-2018' at the 42nd Mill Valley Film Festival

"Soyeon Kim’s abstract notations of life in a strange land are vividly conveyed in her Diary 2013-2018" - Programmer Sterling Hedgpeth

'Diary 2013-2018' at the Santa Cruz Film Festival

'Diary 2013-2018' will be screened at the Santa Cruz Film Festival at 2:30pm, Saturday of October 12 at the Colligan Theatre in downtown Santa Cruz.

'Diary 2013-2018' screening in Minneapolis

'Diary 2013-2018' screening at the Altered Esthetics Film Festival (features Avant-Garde & Experimental short films) at the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 28th and 29th, 2019.  I am thrilled to be a part of this amazing program...

'Diary 2013-2018' screening in Boston

'Diary 2013-2018' will be screened in 2019 Boston Short Film Festival (July 8~12).

Fireworks Safety Campaign with city of Long Beach

I am so proud of my students at CSU Long Beach for their creative ideas and hard work to create these 3 PSA animations. To see their animations, please visit HERE.
These PSAs were made in partnership with Long Beach City Council, Fireworks Advisory Committee and Long Beach Animal Care Services. Thank you!

Panel Discussion on April 27: Global Perspectives on Animation Education

I am honored to participate the panel discussion on April 27th as a part of Annual General Membership meeting of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators Forum. Thanks Kimberly Dwinell for recommending me for the event.

'Diary 2013-2018' in Spain

Diary 2013-2018 has been selected in ANIMAC 2019 (Feb. 21~24 in Spain) in OPEN SCREEN non narrative section. 'OPEN SCREEN is an open access screen in the main meeting point of ANIMAC where will be scheduled a complete program of non narrative animation show.'

'Diary 2013-2018' US Premiere at the Oxford Film Festival

'Diary 2013-2018' US Premiere at the Oxford Film Festival

'Diary 2013-2018' World Premiere at the PÖFF Shorts

 'Diary 2013-2018' World Premiere at the PÖFF Shorts Night Cinema program in November, in Tallinn Estonia

Attending the Breaking the Glass Frame symposium

I am very honored to participate the Breaking the Glass Frame symposium as a panelist for the 'Teaching + Mentoring: Strategies for Positive Change in Academia' that was held in University of Southern California, October 5~7, 2018.

Article on CalArts Blog
(Photo from CalArts Blog - originated from FB posting)

New experimental film, 'Diary 2013-2018'

A new short film is completed...

The UN Women 'HeForShe 'projects by students at CalArts

A link to CalArts 24700 Blog

A link to a trailer