Biography
In 2021, for the Oscar premium in the nominations "The Best Film" and "The Best Director's Work" fought two paintings, posed by directors with Asian roots and surnames. The decent competition of the "land of nomads", the Kitanka Chojo, who was consistent with China, amounted to Minaari Lee Isaac Chuna (Li Isaac Chan).Childhood and youth
The future director was born on October 19, 1978 in the city of Denver in the family of immigrants from South Korea. Now the population of the capital of Colorado is one and a half times more than a year when the Chun's biography began.
Embed from getty imagesLi Isaek's parents often moved - at first moved to the Atlanta, and then in the tiny town of Lincoln in Arkansas, where they began to work on the farm. In high school, Americanized Korean was a scholarshot of the US Senate Youth Program.
In the youth, the native of Denver studied at the Biological Faculty of Yale University. At the senior courses, Lee Isaac got carried away by cinema and refused plans to specialize in medicine.
Films
The debut of Chuna in the cinema was the 8-minute Drama of 2004 Highway with a slogan "When the car of a young couple breaks on a country road, spouses must learn to act together." Characters of short films spoke in Chinese.3 years after Debut, Lee Izek released a drama about the genocide in Rwanda "Day of Liberation", which was removed in 11 days, using non-professional actors. The picture became the first full-length film whose characters communicate in the language of Kinyaranda. In an interview with Chun, a common situation was outraged when American directors are removed in the roles of the inhabitants of the Black continent of African Americans, which have long been moving away from national roots. When renting such tapes in Africa, the audience feel false and leave the cinema fees until the end of the viewing.
The topic of Rwandan genocide is dedicated to the Chuna's documentary, whose name "I saw that was born for the last time," reminds the name of the novel of the Chinese prose, the Nobel Prize laureate on the literature Mo Yanya "tired of being born and dying" ("Life and death tire me"). Events Drama Lee Isaeka "Life succeeded" unfold in the USA XXI century. One of the buddies, traditionally spending vacation on the ocean coast, learns that solidly sick. The trip becomes for the main character and his comrades to say goodbye to each other.
Personal life
About the personal life of the director knows little. In an interview with 2007, this Rovna Akino, Lee Isaack told about the wife of Valerie Chu, an art therapist by profession, provided to the Rwanders who were injured from genocide. Cinematographer accompanied his spouse on a trip to Africa and in the summer of 2006, the filmmaking class in the capital of Rwanda - Kigali city. Valerie made Lept to the filmography of her husband, performing as an artist in the picture of Chuna "Life".
In the summer of 2018, Lee Isaek wanted to leave the film industry and taught at the University of Yuta in the South Korean city of Incheon, the third in terms of population after Seoul and Pusan. Work on the historic homeland brought the director to remove the picture with the elements of his early biography. The result of reflection was the scenario of the film "Minari".
Li Isaac Chun now
On January 26, 2020, the American actor of the Korean origin of Stephen Yong, the Grand Prix of the Jury and the prize of spectator sympathies at the Sandens and the Prize of the Scriptures at the Sandans Film Festival, was honored.
The film is entitled to the name of the weed used in Korean cuisine. Minari, as a ochen of Oskarone tape Vladimir Menshov, "Moscow does not believe in tears", "without demand increases" on any "the edge of the Earth". Like the plant, the family of Korean immigrants is trying to take root in the United States. Funny and tragic events are shown through the eyes of the boy David I.
On April 8, 2021, the "Minari" ribbon entered the Russian rental. Even before the release of the painting on the screens, residents of Russia were able to get acquainted with her frames by the photo posted on the film page in "Instagram", and read enthusiastic reviews in the Kommersant newspaper and other publications. Lee Isaac Chun in 2021 continued to work on the game screening of the Japanese animated romantic fantasy "Your Name".
Filmography
- 2007 - "Liberation Day"
- 2010 - "Life succeeded"
- 2012 - "Ebigeyl Harm"
- 2015 - "I saw that was born for the last time"
- 2020 - "Minari"
- 2021 - "Your Name"