Blue Hour

A young Korean American boy encounters difficulty as he attempts to draw a portrait of his busy blue-collar immigrant father for a school assignment, leading the boy to confront his father in a dream-scape like world of his own imagination.

Directed by Esther Um
Produced by Elia Petridis, Elizabeth Kurtz, Amelia Annen, and Gaby Macomber

Director’s Bio: Esther (or Es to their friends), was born in South Korea. They immigrated to the US with their family at 8 years old. They graduated from NYU Tisch’s School of Drama in 2021, and soon began working as an actor, writer, and director in New York City. As a non-binary, queer, Asian American immigrant artist, their work often explores the human experience through the lens of these identities.

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