NEW YORK/SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) — Sonya Chung, a Korean-American writer, will take over New York’s Film Forum theater, known for showing independent and art films, on July 1, according to a report by The New York Times. on Monday (local time).
The Film Forum is currently led by 50-year-old president and director Karen Cooper, with the next president, born in Washington, serving as deputy director of the Film Forum. Chung has written two novels. The first was released in 2010, “Long for This World”, the story of a Korean father and daughter who return to South Korea after abandoning their immigrant family in the United States, while the second dates back to “The Loved Ones ” from 2016, chronicles the life of a girl of Korean descent hired as a babysitter in the family of a former US soldier deployed in South Korea.
Chung joined Film Forum in 2003 but left to write a novel. She returned in 2018 to participate in programming. She plans to expand the social stratum of cinemagoers, mostly white from wealthy families. Film Forum was founded in 1970 in New York City as a non-profit organization. The cinema has 4 screening rooms dedicated to independent and artistic films. It is unique in New York for its love of independent and arty film, and approximately 200,000 moviegoers come to this New York movie theater each year.
Film Forum New York President-elect Sonya Chung (Twitter image capture. Resale and archiving prohibited)
The entrance to the Film Forum cinema in New York
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