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Ant’s Story

Sun Choi

Log Line

Jae Yoon, a 45-year-old man meets Da Woon, a 26-year-old deaf young man After he fails his suicide, they share their struggle in their life and understand and comfort each other’s pain.

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Artist Statement

Storytelling has been paramount to my artistic practice, and I am drawn to stories that play with a fiction narrative story based on my cultural background. I am interested in cultural elements and human rights in our society and how they can be explored in a way that reflects our real world from a different point of view and breaks the stereotype that the audience has toward the context I used for this film. The narratives that have driven me are through lived experience and through the experience of people who struggle with the disability. Having grown up in the Korean-Canadian community, working with the Korean disability community in Vancouver, and maintaining connection to people who have disability family members and the community in Korea, has provided me with the privilege of hearing many personal stories that have brought meaningful resonance to my creative practice.

Credit

Head of the Department of Production

Sun Choi, Director/Writer

Sahil Arya, Producer

Emma Campbell, First Assitant Director

Isaac Sanchez, Director of Photography

Eun Seo Yang, Production Designer

Luke Chung, Editor

Linda Lee, Make-Up Artist

Cast

Jae Yoon, Min Jun Park

Da Woon, Jae Woo Kim

Sound & Music

Eva Pekárová, Sound Design/ Composer

Oscar Flores, Sound Mixer

Sun Choi, Sound Mixer

Artist Biography

Sun Choi is a Korean-Canadian and a Vancouver-based Filmmaker. They have been directing and filmmaking for as long as they can remember and have been pursuing film and other media content for most of that time. They studied Film and Screen Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, with a specialty focus on producing and working in the Assistant Director department. They are the director and writer of “Ant’s Story”, a narrative short film about physical disability and mental disability in Korean society which provide a different perspective on these social problems from Western society. Sun’s professional experiences include freelance 1st AD and production manager for international and Canadien’s independent film production like Crazy 8’s and Run N Gun film festival, is focused on developing a career in the film and media content industry.