"Visual Language: The Key to Writing for the Screen" with Andrew Ahn


 Film and Media Studies     May 12 2016 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Humanities Hall 156

Guest Writer/Director: Andrew Ahn
Talk Title: "Visual Language: The Key to Writing for the Screen"
Date: Thursday, May 12
Time: 2-3:15pm
Location: Humanities Hall Room 156
Hosted in FMS 191: Writing Short Films

This event is free and open to the public with limited seating.

Short Bio:
Andrew Ahn is a Korean-American filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles. His feature film SPA NIGHT premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition. The film's lead actor Joe Seo won a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance. Ahn participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab, and the Film Independent Directing Lab for the project. The project also received grants from the Sundance Institute, Film Independent, Cinereach, EFILM, Panavision, and FilmLA.

In 2011 Ahn’s first short film Andy took Best Narrative Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. About a young family’s trip to a shopping mall with their six-year-old son, Andy effectively deals with culture clash, paranoia, and gender play in just a little over six minutes. Ahn’s next short film Dol (First Birthday) was accepted into Sundance 2012. It went on to win the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Narrative Short Film at Outfest 2012, Los Angeles’ Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; and the Jury Award for Best Narrative Short Film at Polari 2012, Austin’s Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.

Ahn