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Eight months ago, Chloé Zhao drove from her Ojai home down the 101 Freeway to the Rose Bowl for the pop-up drive-in premiere of “Nomadland,” the poignant story of a widow grappling with grief and finding community on the road with a group of travelers. Nearing Pasadena, Zhao began noticing camper vans and RVs and wondered if they were some of the actual “nomads” who’d be attending the splashy event, billed as “Telluride from Los Angeles.” She also started seeing ash clouding the orange sky. The Bobcat fire was burning in the nearby San Gabriel Mountains, lending an apocalyptic air to what was supposed to be a celebratory evening.
Youn Yuh Jung continued by thanking the award-giving body and everyone who voted for her.
Moreover, the Minari actress gave the audience a good laugh after saying that she forgave everyone who mispronounced her name.
Still surprised with her Oscar win, Youn Yuh Jung says that she cannot believe that she s at the stage accepting the Best Supporting Actress award. Me being here myself, I cannot believe. Let me pull myself together, she quipped.
In addition, the actress also thanked and praised her Minari family, Steven Yeun, Han Ye Ri, Alan S. Kim, and Noel Cho, as well as the director Lee Isaac Chung, whom she described as their captain.
Youn won for her role in
Minari, a family drama about Korean immigrants living in the U.S. in the 1980s.
She portrayed a grandmother who travelled from South Korea to rural Arkansas to help care for her two grandchildren. You are all forgiven
She began by teasing Pitt, who was a producer on
Minari through his Plan B Entertainment production house, by asking him where he was during the filming of the movie.
She then talked about how people have been mispronouncing her name. Actually, my name is Yuh-Jung Youn, and most European people call me Yuh-Yung , and some of them call me Yoo-Jung . But tonight, you are all forgiven.
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South African filmmakers have been given a lifeline after the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) partnered with Netflix to fund six locally produced films.
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The collaboration will create new opportunities for emerging filmmakers in the local film industry after many productions suffered a massive blow due to Covid-19 and the national lockdown.
The fund will help alleviate the pressure filmmakers face to raise funding and will assist in the alleviation of low job creation currently faced by the sector.
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