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Follows Hayoung, a lonely year-old Korean American girl who tries to hide her problematic family and lower-income background from her new wealthy friends, only to discover the struggles o

Set in earlys SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment. Cutter White Healin Kweon. Charlotte Arnoux Kate Antognini. John Zhao Longwei Deng. Tribeca Film Institute.

Smoking tigers trailer

Hayoung Ji-young Yoo , a Korean-American teenager in early s Southern California, is presumed to live up to certain stereotypes of academic ambition and achievement, even as the differences and obstacles in front of her are plain as day. Smoking Tigers has a lot of details that will be familiar to readers of YA or attentive viewers of coming-of-age movies: A young protagonist dealing with a fractured family, divisions between an immigrant parent and a semi-assimilated child, embarrassment over economic limitations compared to wealthier peers. Even more striking is how writer-director So Young Shelly Yo shoots these scenes, and Hayoung herself. Smoking Tigers has a lot of little scenes like this: Precisely framed, relatively quiet interactions that carry a surprising amount of weight. Ji-Young Yoo makes this transition clear but not overdetermined, smoothing over a few passages of dialogue that sound overly direct or declamatory. In its clear-eyed and naturalistic way, Smoking Tigers takes on a surprising fullness. Jesse Hassenger is associate movies editor at Paste. He also writes about movies and other pop-culture stuff for a bunch of outlets including Polygon, Inside Hook, Vulture, and SportsAlcohol. Sign Up. By Jesse Hassenger June 23, am.

An ambient reflection on family, bookended quite beautifully by its tranquil nature and emphasis on imagery. Follows Hayoung, a lonely year-old Korean American girl who tries to hide her problematic family and lower-income background from her new wealthy friends, only to discover the struggles o Randal Kamradt, smoking tigers trailer.

Out of five filmmakers and their movie ideas, only one was ultimately selected for the final award; the process is intended to give those from underrepresented backgrounds and stories funding to create a film. Titled Smoking Tigers , the director and writer, So Young Shelly Yo, and producer, Guo Guo, were given a million dollars to produce the film, which would be a feature-length movie. It would be given an opportunity so many filmmakers would dream of: a premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and the possibility to be picked up by HBO Max, which has since been renamed Max in the years after this award was given. Finally, nearly one year after its initial selection, on June 10, , Smoking Tigers had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Smoking Tigers follows that storyline: its main character is a low-income Korean American who struggles with loneliness and feelings of comparison when it comes to other people at her local hagwon. While other girls her age have their bedrooms and a bed to themselves, she is forced to share a bed with her younger sister and feels shame because of her family's circumstances.

Out of five filmmakers and their movie ideas, only one was ultimately selected for the final award; the process is intended to give those from underrepresented backgrounds and stories funding to create a film. Titled Smoking Tigers , the director and writer, So Young Shelly Yo, and producer, Guo Guo, were given a million dollars to produce the film, which would be a feature-length movie. It would be given an opportunity so many filmmakers would dream of: a premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and the possibility to be picked up by HBO Max, which has since been renamed Max in the years after this award was given. Finally, nearly one year after its initial selection, on June 10, , Smoking Tigers had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Smoking Tigers follows that storyline: its main character is a low-income Korean American who struggles with loneliness and feelings of comparison when it comes to other people at her local hagwon. While other girls her age have their bedrooms and a bed to themselves, she is forced to share a bed with her younger sister and feels shame because of her family's circumstances.

Smoking tigers trailer

Follows Hayoung, a lonely year-old Korean American girl who tries to hide her problematic family and lower-income background from her new wealthy friends, only to discover the struggles o Read all Follows Hayoung, a lonely year-old Korean American girl who tries to hide her problematic family and lower-income background from her new wealthy friends, only to discover the struggles of adulthood that will forever shape her life. Follows Hayoung, a lonely year-old Korean American girl who tries to hide her problematic family and lower-income background from her new wealthy friends, only to discover the struggles of adulthood that will forever shape her life. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Smoking Tigers 1h 25m.

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Hayoung Ji-young Yoo , a Korean-American teenager in early s Southern California, is presumed to live up to certain stereotypes of academic ambition and achievement, even as the differences and obstacles in front of her are plain as day.

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