{"id":1657,"date":"2017-09-12T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2019-05-06T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:44:04","slug":"siff-films-sponsored-eac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/2017\/09\/12\/siff-films-sponsored-eac\/","title":{"rendered":"SIFF Films sponsored by EAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siff.net\/\">Seattle International Film Festival<\/a> opened on Thursday 18th May and showcased more than 400 films from 80 countries over 25 days. Three of the films were\u00a0sponsored by the East Asia Center and the Taiwan Studies Initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siff.net\/festival\/godspeed\">Godspeed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Chung Mung-Hong, Taiwan, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong comedy legend Michael Hui gives an impressively restrained performance as a down-on-his-luck taxi driver who accidentally picks up a drug mule, in Taiwanese director Chung Mong-Hong\u2019s (<em>Parking<\/em>) offbeat, a violent road movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chung_Mong-hong\">Learn more about director Chung Mung-Hong\u00a0on their Wikipedia page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1601 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01-375x188.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01-750x375.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01-1140x570.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/GODSPEED_01.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siff.net\/festival\/becoming-who-i-was\">Becoming Who I Was<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Moon Chang-Yong, Jeon Jin, South Korea 2016<\/p>\n<p>After a Buddhist boy in the highlands of northern India discovers that he is the reincarnation of a centuries-old Tibetan monk, his aging godfather takes him on a journey to discover his past in a beautiful story of faith and unconditional love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/koreanfilm.or.kr\/jsp\/films\/index\/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=20243709\">Learn more about director Moon Chang-Yong here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1599 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas-375x211.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/BecomingWhoIWas.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siff.net\/festival\/yourself-and-yours\">Yourself and Yours<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Korean virtuoso Hong Sang-soo (Right Now, Wrong Then) delivers an absurdist spin on the romantic comedy when a young painter has a fight with his girlfriend for drinking with another man, then discovers her doppelganger appearing wherever he goes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Sang-soo\">Learn more about Hang Sang-soo here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1600 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/eacenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/05\/imgres-2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to partnering with SIFF again this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle International Film Festival opened on Thursday 18th May and showcased more than 400 films from 80 countries over 25 days. 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