University of Massachusetts Amherst

"New Woman: Her First Song": 13th Annual Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival 2006

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker, scholar and co-founder of the Seoul Women's Film Festival, Kim Soyoung explores the political and historical achievements and contradictions of the 1920s "New Woman" phenomenon in North East Asia in this fascinating film about painter and writer Na Haesuk. Introduced by Jeeyoung Shin, Five College Fellow, Asian Languages & Civilizations, Amherst College. The filmmaker will be present.

New Woman: Her First Song