TIE A YELLOW RIBBON

Joy Dietrich | USA | 2007 | Drama | 87 min | HDCAM | English w/E.S.

Tie A Yellow Ribbon is an understated, yet compelling film about a Korean adoptee named Jenny Mason who is haunted by a troubling family secret. Raised by a white family in the Midwest, she is exiled by her family to live a life of aimlessly roaming the streets of New York City serially dating white men.

Raised in the predominately white Midwest, she is both fascinated and repulsed by other Asian Americans whom she meets. Searching for something familiar, she yearns of things that remind her of home. Just when Jenny thinks she finds love and happiness with an Asian American boyfriend, a figure from her past appears and forever shatters her life.

Making her feature debut, writer-director Joy Dietrich, also a Korean adoptee, introduces audiences to the world of Asian American young women and delicately addresses the abnormally high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American girls, creating a work great compassion and poetic beauty.

http://www.jedfilms.net/yellowribbon/

Preceded by
the music video CHASE by Kiyoshi Graves

Saturday
April 26th
6:35 PM
Bijou Art Cinemas
$8 General
$6 Students & Seniors
(with valid ID)

A DisOrient STAFF PICK!

Nominated for the 2008 DisOrient Grand Jury Prize.

Korean American filmmaker Joy Dietrich will be available after screening for Q&A.

DIRECTOR:
Joy Dietrich
WRITER:
Joy Dietrich
CAST:
Ian Wen,
Jane Kim,
Kim Jiang,
Patrick Heusinger
PRODUCERS:
Joy Dietrich,
Thomas Yong
CINEMATOGRAPHER:
Lars Bonde

Joy Dietrich won the 2007 CineVegas Special Jury Award for Best Director.