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The 22nd San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival will take place throughout the month of March, and will feature the U.S. premiere screening of Being Normal, the groundbreaking Korean documentary about the experiences of an intersex person. The film, directed by Choi Hyun-jung, will be shown three times: March 7th at 12:15pm, March 8th at 9:15pm, and March 10th at 7pm. It is highly recommended that you purchase ticket in advance to ensure that you will be able to see it. "Being Normal" will be preceded by an Iranian film about a transgender woman's life. Below is the description copied from the Film Festival website:
Being Normal
South Korea 2002 / 58mins / Video Color / Korean w/ English subtitle
Director: Choi Hyun-jung
Producers: Lee Min-jin & Park Ju-young
A landmark independent documentary about coming to terms with intersexuality, BEING NORMAL is more memorably a portrayal of friendship. Director Choi Hyun-jung follows her roommate J, a person born with both male and female sex organs. As J shares experiences and tragedies with Choi, the director turns her camera on herself as well, showcasing her own struggles as well as the ebb and flow of their relationship. J and Choi first met as film students in Seoul; BEING NORMAL emerged from material that J had shot three years previously, then abandoned after having surgery to become "fully" male. Choi later incorporated J's footage into this project, fashioning it into not only a portrait of J, but as a tool to investigate their friendship. Part of Korean cinema's recent movement to document sexual minorities, BEING NORMAL captures not only the challenges to gender identity that intersexuality presents, but also underlines the fictions we tell one another until comfortable enough to speak the truth.
Posted by Emi on Feb 26, 2004