K-docs

Hydrangea

▪ Project Description

Director	HIROYAMA PARK
Producer	LEE Changmin
Production Company	ANAMNESIS FILM
Contact	hiroyamapark@gmail.com

▪ Production Schedule

Proposed Production	January 2019
Proposed Delivery	February 2025

▪ Budget

Confirmed Financing	170,000 USD
Financing Sought	30,000 USD
Total Budget	200,000 USD

▪ Logline

After a lifetime in Korea denying her Japanese heritage a young woman comes out and faces the truths she felt safer burying.

▪ Synopsis

I was born in Japan and moved to Korea, my father’s homeland, when I was four. At school, I learned about Japan’s colonial scars and didn’t know how to protect myself except by rejecting my mother and her country. The film begins when my grandma visits Korea after years. Filming her made me face the time I denied my maternal roots. Later, I asked my mother to show me her island home. On that sea, I accept my heritage for the first time. Now, I have the courage to face both nations' wounds.

▪ Biography

DIRECTOR : HIROYAMA PARK

PRODUCER : LEE Changmin

Hiroyama Park is a filmmaker based in South Korea and Japan. Her first short fiction film, Lake and I, was invited to the Busan International Film Festival in 2022. She is currently working on her first feature-length documentary, Hydrangea, which explores her multicultural background. She is filming it herself and also works as a cinematographer. She has a particular interest in religion, gender, post-nationalism, and post-capitalism.

Changmin Lee is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and scholar based in South Korea. He has directed impactful documentaries like Memories of a Photographer (2014), Candle in the Wave (2017), and Dear Elephant (2019), and produced Burmese on the Roof (2016). Changmin studied Catholic theology, documentary filmmaking, and film theory, and is a Research Professor at Korea National University of Arts, under the NRF fellowship. His films recreate topological memories of past traces in the present.

Hydrangea

🔹 Production Company: ANAMNESIS FILM
💌 Contact: hiroyamapark@gmail.com

▪ Production Schedule

Proposed Production	January 2019
Proposed Delivery	February 2025

▪ Budget

Confirmed Financing	170,000 USD
Financing Sought	30,000 USD
Total	200,000 USD

▪ Logline

After a lifetime in Korea denying her Japanese heritage a young woman comes out and faces the truths she felt safer burying.

▪ Synopsis

I was born in Japan and moved to Korea, my father’s homeland, when I was four. At school, I learned about Japan’s colonial scars and didn’t know how to protect myself except by rejecting my mother and her country. The film begins when my grandma visits Korea after years. Filming her made me face the time I denied my maternal roots. Later, I asked my mother to show me her island home. On that sea, I accept my heritage for the first time. Now, I have the courage to face both nations' wounds.