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ETHNIC IMMIGRATION FILMS

  • Finding Sandalwood Mountain
    sandalwoodfilm.com

  • Great Grandfathers Drum
    greatgrandfathersdrum.com

  • "Arirang"
    caamedia.org

  • The Story of Dream: Picture Brides
    Directed by JiHwan Song (J-WONDER) and JeongTae Lee

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    Between 1903 and 1905, approximately 7,400 Korean immigrants, most of them male, arrived in Hawaii, wishing to start new lives in Hawaii.  They decided to find Korean women who would be willing come to Hawaii to marry them. After exchanging photos, these brave women left their home to come to Hawaii, holding only a photo of their future husband in their hands. They are called ‘picture brides.’ Far away from their home and families, picture brides started new life, gave birth to their children and educated them while living a harsh life as first-generation immigrants. This film tells the stories of the picture brides and their lives since they first stepped on the Hawaiian soil about 120 years ago.

  • Unfinished Story
    Directed by JeongTae Lee (KBFD) and Byung Choon You (Contents Bada)

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    Since the first group of 102 Korean immigrants arrived in Hawaii in 1903, Koreans have been rooted here as important members of the American community. Korean immigrants also had a special mission. In Hawaii, a place 7,000 kilometers away from their home, Korean Americans devoted themselves to support independence of their homeland from Japan. This film records the two years of work process to search and identify these stories and the names of those unsung heroes who sacrificed for the independence of their homeland, whose efforts otherwise would have been lost forever.