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What do you do when people question your style of filmmaking? If you know that the story is in your heart, as my guest Huiju Park did with her film WELCOME HOME FRECKLES (2025), you make your film your way. In a deeply personal tale about her return home to Korea for the first time in four years, that's what she did. We talk about that and so much more with this UK-based filmmaker, whose authenticity will astound you.

In this episode, we talk about:

• how she got started in filmmaking and going home to Korea with a camera;
• why she decided to take on a personal documentary -- "self-expression"; "I tend to use my film as a therapy";
• what did her teachers think of her style of documentary -- "definitely, it's not really common...and I was using me as a character...to deliver the story"; "the whole film, the story, is universal; I see myself as a medium";
• does she introduce herself as a Korean filmmaker? what's her relationship with that label? -- "I'm trying to bring Korean cinema into the documentary world";
• her trip to Cannes (she attended a program called Focus COPRO') and why she attends film festivals;
• do programs like Focus COPRO help documentary filmmakers -- "I don't make films for making money because I know there's no money";
• what's it like working as a doc filmmaker in London? -- "I'm Korean Korean, I moved to the UK just for the school"; "after Brexit, the difference between European market and the UK market is really big, as much as American and European"; "in the UK, it's really tough";
• what's next for her -- "it's not about moving away from personal documentary, I've said enough";

Huiju's Indie Film Highlight: THE ECHO (2023) dir. by Tatiana Huezo

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