A young girl faces a test of friendship at an orphanage in 1970 South Korea | Based on a true story

Director’s Vision for ‘Julia’

Julia is a short film based on one of my mother’s early childhood memories, growing up in a South Korean orphanage. Her and her orphanage sisters endured an incredible amount of hardship, and leaned on each other to survive. Filmmaking is a powerful medium that I wanted to use to honor their experiences, and acknowledge the injustice that my mother and her orphanage sisters faced.