{"id":65456,"date":"2016-07-26T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65456"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T00:31:49","slug":"aaiff16-people-are-the-sky-a-journey-to-north-korea-with-dai-sil-kim-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65456","title":{"rendered":"AAIFF16: People are the Sky: A Journey to North Korea with Dai Sil Kim-Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 26 07pm<br \/>\nFlushing Town Hall<br \/>\n13735 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/people-are-the-sky.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[65456]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65457\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/people-are-the-sky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In PEOPLE ARE THE SKY, Kim-Gibson\u2019s eighth and most personal film, the filmmaker makes a pilgrimage to her place of birth in North Korea for the first time in nearly 70 years, to explore if it is still home.<\/p>\n<p>Kim-Gibson seamlessly weaves her own personal story as a native born North Korean, with the fractious history of the North\/South division and pinpoints the roots of North Korean\u2019s hatred of the United States, giving Americans a much better understanding of the conflict. A mix of interviews epic images and graceful musings, PEOPLE ARE THE SKY offers some of the best political and social history of the relations between North and South Korea, and also a contemplative exploration of the meaning of home. The result is unprecedented, at times startling, for hers is an up close look of the hurts and desires, beauty and contradiction, pride and aspirations of the long held demonized nation.<\/p>\n<p>Free screening! <a href=\"http:\/\/aaiff.org\/2016\/films\/people-are-the-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/aaiff.org\/2016\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 26 07pm Flushing Town Hall 13735 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65458,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65456\/revisions\/65458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}