We cordially invite you to the first ever Bay Area Film Collective event on June 29, 2019 at San Francisco Art Instittute: Cocktails and Films
Come join us at 6:30 p.m for a night of internationally renowned short films by Christopher Coppola and Jason Kim, along with video messages from each filmmaker. These films will be accompanied by cocktails throughout the night. ALL FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE COMPLIMENTARY!!
Saturday, June 29, 2018
Program
6:30PM – Introduction to the event by moderator Christobal Martinez
6:45PM – Introduction to the Bay Area Film Collective
7:00PM – Retriever with a short introduction by Jason Kim
7:30PM – Christopher Coppola short film with introduction by Christopher Coppola
8:00PM – Food is served
About the Moderator
Cristóbal Martínez is an artist/scholar in Postcommodity and Radio Healer. His artwork focuses on positioning metaphors to mediate complications within sites of dromological, spatial, social, cultural, political, ecological and economic anxiety. Within these locations, Martínez aestheticizes complexity to generatively engage the public in recovering and connecting knowledge. He has exhibited in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Adelaide International, Contour the 5th Biennale of the Moving Image, Nuit Blanche, Sundance Film Festival, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, 2017 Whitney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art in General, documenta14, and at the U.S./Mexico border - Repellent Fence.
About the Filmmakers
Christopher Coppola, President of PlasterCITY Productions Inc., has been a champion of and leader in digital media for over a decade. Since 1987, he has directed eleven feature films, numerous television shows and developed and produced content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms. He has spoken at CES, NAB, SHOWWEST and at several other film festivals about the future of digital filmmaking. His production company produces low-budget feature films, which offers an opporutnity for SFAI film students to intern and work on set alongside professionals and learn about all aspects of the filmmaking process.
Jason Kim, born in 1981, majored in International Politics from Georgetown University. He served for three years as an interpreter in the Korean Air Force before joining the promotion department at Showbox and later the film investment department. He dreams of making his own films and has made in his spare time youth drama films, including Goodbye My Smile (2010) and Koala (2013). He later quit his job to pursue fulltime his career in filmmaking. He spent three years working on the script of his first mainstream film Midnight Runners (2017), which became a hit in South Korea and was also screened overseas.
Lee Kwang is an illegal immigrant in Korea. He makes a living by stealing dogs from animal shelters and selling them to butchers. But when he adopts a big golden retriever named Bori, the two develop a special bond.
We cordially invite you to the first ever Bay Area Film Collective event on June 29, 2019 at San Francisco Art Instittute: Cocktails and Films
Come join us at 6:30 p.m for a night of internationally renowned short films by Christopher Coppola and Jason Kim, along with video messages from each filmmaker. These films will be accompanied by cocktails throughout the night. ALL FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE COMPLIMENTARY!!
Saturday, June 29, 2018
Program
6:30PM – Introduction to the event by moderator Christobal Martinez
6:45PM – Introduction to the Bay Area Film Collective
7:00PM – Retriever with a short introduction by Jason Kim
7:30PM – Christopher Coppola short film with introduction by Christopher Coppola
8:00PM – Food is served
About the Moderator
Cristóbal Martínez is an artist/scholar in Postcommodity and Radio Healer. His artwork focuses on positioning metaphors to mediate complications within sites of dromological, spatial, social, cultural, political, ecological and economic anxiety. Within these locations, Martínez aestheticizes complexity to generatively engage the public in recovering and connecting knowledge. He has exhibited in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Adelaide International, Contour the 5th Biennale of the Moving Image, Nuit Blanche, Sundance Film Festival, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, 2017 Whitney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Art in General, documenta14, and at the U.S./Mexico border - Repellent Fence.
About the Filmmakers
Christopher Coppola, President of PlasterCITY Productions Inc., has been a champion of and leader in digital media for over a decade. Since 1987, he has directed eleven feature films, numerous television shows and developed and produced content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms. He has spoken at CES, NAB, SHOWWEST and at several other film festivals about the future of digital filmmaking. His production company produces low-budget feature films, which offers an opporutnity for SFAI film students to intern and work on set alongside professionals and learn about all aspects of the filmmaking process.
Jason Kim, born in 1981, majored in International Politics from Georgetown University. He served for three years as an interpreter in the Korean Air Force before joining the promotion department at Showbox and later the film investment department. He dreams of making his own films and has made in his spare time youth drama films, including Goodbye My Smile (2010) and Koala (2013). He later quit his job to pursue fulltime his career in filmmaking. He spent three years working on the script of his first mainstream film Midnight Runners (2017), which became a hit in South Korea and was also screened overseas.
Lee Kwang is an illegal immigrant in Korea. He makes a living by stealing dogs from animal shelters and selling them to butchers. But when he adopts a big golden retriever named Bori, the two develop a special bond.
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