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<body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;">Film Screening: The Schoolgirl’s Diary<br>-With commentary from Suk-Young Kim,<br>University of California at Santa Barbara<br>________________________________________<br><br>The North Korea International Documentation Project invites you to attend a screening of the North Korean film "The Schoolgirl’s Diary" (Han Nyeohaksaengeui Ilgi) followed by
commentary by Suk-Young Kim, assistant professor of theater and dance
at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an expert on
North Korean propaganda.<br><br>April 09, 2008 4:00 – 6:30pm<br>6th Floor Auditorium<br>Woodrow Wilson Center<br>One Woodrow Wilson Plaza<br>1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW<br>Washington, DC 20004<br><br>Visit <a href="www.wilsoncenter.org/nkidp">www.wilsoncenter.org/nkidp</a> for more information, and to RSVP<br><br>The Schoolgirl’s Diary (2006, in Korean, no subtitles) is the story of a self-absorbed North Korean teenager, Soo-Ryeon, who yearns to move to an apartment from her home in the countryside and questions the values of her father and mother, a scientist and a librarian at the academy of sciences who put the good of the nation before that of their family. Soo-Ryeon realizes how selfish she is only after her mother falls ill and her father makes a major breakthrough in his research. The film’s screenwriters reportedly received guidance in drafting the script from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.<br><br>Suk-Young Kim is assistant professor of theater and dance at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is currently completing a book project titled Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea, which explores how state produced propaganda performances intersect with everyday life practice in North Korea. Another book project, Long Road Home: A Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (coauthored with Kim Yong) is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.<br></div><br /><hr />Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! <a href='http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us' target='_new'>Try it!</a></body>
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