Community Collaboration: Minari
Film Streams™
Ruth Sokolof Theater
1340 Mike Fahey Street
Omaha, NE 68102
United States
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of new life in Arkansas, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. Loosely based on Willa Cather’s texts and in celebration of her 150th birthday anniversary, Minari is a highly lauded and award-winning film.
Stay after the film to hear a pre-recorded conversation with the National Willa Cather Center's director of education and engagement Rachel Olsen and Minari director Lee Isaac Chung. The article and interview links below feature Chung's discovery of Willa Cather and how her writing influenced his work on the film.
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About Lee Isaac Chung
A son of Korean immigrants, Lee Isaac Chung grew up on a small farm in rural Arkansas and then attended Yale University before abandoning plans for medical school to earn his MFA in film studies at the University of Utah. Chung’s latest film Twisters, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos, follows the group as they find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives. Distributed by Universal Pictures domestically, and Warner Bros. Pictures internationally, the film opened on July 19th, 2024.
His breakout film Minari, from Plan B and A24, won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Sundance in 2020 and garnered Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice wins, along with multiple Academy Award, Independent Spirit, BAFTA and SAG nominations. The film was named one of the ten best films of 2020 by the American Film Institute and by the National Board of Review, which also awarded Isaac “Best Original Screenplay.” Chung’s other films include Munyurangabo, which premiered in 2007 at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim, Lucky Life and Abigail Harm. Chung currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.