Seoulidarity Screening: ¡Gigante Despierta! Giant Awake!

((i))ndymedia, U.S. 2007, 30mins

time: p.m. 4 ~ 7, 20th of December 2008

place: "Kuchu Camp" near to Hong-Ik Univ. (Directions to "Kuchu Camp")

by: Seoulidarity.net (contact: jonairATriseupDOTnet | 17_285_1974)

¡Gigante: Despierta! is a DVD compilation of compelling short films from all around the country, due to hit the streets in the weeks before Mayday 2007. Shot, edited, and brought together by a network of independent video activists, graphic designers, community organizers, musicians, and immigrant rights activists, it is a collective memory and a tool to inspire action this MayDay 2007, when the Giant will raise its voice again to say: we are one people, without borders. We are here, and we are here to stay!

Korean Subtitle will is provided. With screening, there will be a talk about immigrant workers' movements and documentary-making with Sasha Costanza-Chock who actively participated in this project. And "2% migrants in korea, 2008"(10mins) produced by MWTV(Migrant Workers TV) will be also screened with a talk about current migrant workers' movement in korean by one of activists from MWTV.

Migrants 2%, 2008 South Korea

Minod Moktan/Korea, Nepal/7 Minutes/Color/Documentary/2008

There are 1 million migrants living in Korea in 2008, 2% of the whole population. Even though this is a size of a small city, Korean society treats them as invisible or even worse, as potential criminals. This film bring the fore the voices of migrant children, marriage migrants, and migrant workers as people living together in Korean society. This is not the voices borrowed from somewhere, but the voices they themselves speak out about the questions they would like to ask to Korean society, with a open heart to listen. This film was an opening clip for the Third Annual Migrant Workers' Film Festival, and was directed by an MWTV activist Minod "Minu" Moktan (the director of <Payday>).