Georgia Heat
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2004
Logline
A Korean G.I.'s wife, living in Georgia in 1968, finds herself caught between her American family and her distant past when she learns that the son she left behind in Korea thirteen years earlier is coming to visit.
Mora Mi-Ok
Director
Mora is a recent alumna of the prestigious Graduate Film Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She was one of eight directors chosen to participate in the IFP/ Los Angeles’s 2004 Directors Lab with her feature project Georgia Heat. She has directed numerous short films and plays, including Breaking Bread which aired on Showtime in September 2003 as part of the Reflections from Ground Zero series. She co-wrote the independent feature Heaven’s Pond, released on DVD by Artisan Entertainment in December 2003. Her short film, The Twenty, recently premiered at the Anthology Film Archives, as part of the RIPfest film festival. She graduated with honors from Princeton University where she received her BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Paul Yi
Producer
Los Angeles based producer Paul Yi is the head of production and world sales company, E Pictures, based in Seoul and Los Angeles. He has represented Venice competition films A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003) and Lies (1999) and the Berlin competition film (2001). He was also coproducer on Cannes competition film Unknown Pleasures (2002). He began his film career directing independent films and videos before becoming Festival Director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. He was asked to be an advisor to the first Pusan International Film Festival, and went onto found and direct the first film co-production market in Asia, the Pusan Promotion Plan, and then to found and direct the Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum. He was Chief of the International Business Department of the Korean Film Commission before forming E Pictures.
Joel Viertel
Producer
Joel worked for Paramount Pictures for three years, initially as executive assistant to John Goldwyn, President of the Motion Picture Group, then later promoted to Director of Creative Affairs. In September 2000, Joel joined Energy Entertainment as a literary manager, where he oversaw the creative development of all the company’s client material. He left Energy in 2001 to direct the feature film Heaven’s Pond, released by Artisan Entertainment in 2003. Joel also produced two music videos for Los Angeles recording artist Brooke Ramel and the short films Socket Wrench and Willowbee (starring Amy Smart).