Curation

2025

K-Family Affairs (Nam Arum, 2023)
November 7
Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa

I led a Q&A with director Nam Arum following the screening. The film received a warm reception from a very enthusiastic and engaged audience. We were all inspired to find ways to resist political apathy in our own lives through Arum's family story. Mahalo to C. Harrison Kim for facilitating the event.

On the Other Island: New Films and New Visions from the Dominican Republic
October 26
Hawaiʻi International Film Festival at Kahala Theaters
featuring work by Sofia Jamatte, Samuel Caraballo, Jaime Guerra, Miguel Batista, Alexander Vásquez, Ricardo Ariel Toribio, Camila Encarnación, Pamela Bencosme
curated by Julia Scrive-Loyer and Diego Cepeda

In the Dominican Republic, cinema is a relatively new tool, which means that, due to its novelty, it can bear witness to what it means to live here, socially, politically, and poetically. The films in this program are made through the eyes and voices of young students, as well as some veterans, such as Jaime Guerra. Most of these films are self-financed or produced in university contexts, such as the Chavón Film Department, and deal indiscriminately with fiction, documentary and essay film, questioning the nature of what a film should be. Let us consider a cinema of the smaller form, which expresses itself by experimenting and taking risks with language and its tools: from the tactile explorations of nature and family memories (Sin Título, Campanario), to the development of a new way of seeing by means of the liberation of the camera (Cumpleaños en San Carlos, Camino de Vuelta) to the questioning of our present, our history and our memory through the creation of artefacts that provoke their trembling (Diablo, La Administración del Rubio), and finally, using cinema to reconstruct broken spaces with affection (Ariel, Depeyize). —Julia Scrive-Loyer and Diego Cepeda

With Julia and Diego, I organized this program of Dominican short films for HIFF's Online Creators and Critics Immersive, which I mentored for the second time in 2025. I led a discussion with the HOCCI cohort and the audience following the screening. The cohort later wrote a collaborative review of the program for the HIFF blog.

Crossing Voices (Xaraasi Xanne) (Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré, 2023)
September 26
BoxJelly
Supported by Weaving Our Stories, Jewish Voice for Peace Hawaiʻi, and Sewa Fare

Sewa Fare opened the evening with West African dance. Audience members stuck around after the screening for a facilitated talk story session. More than just watching a film, this event wove connections across oceans, bringing together African and Hawaiʻi-based struggles for land, memory, and community. Mahalo to Imani Altemus-Williams and Luanna Peterson for being great collaborators.

Rotating Signals: The Contemporary Korean Avant-Garde
August 9
Aupuni Space
featuring work by Heehyun Choi, Hyo In Kwak, Chae Yu, Go-eun Im, Hyeisoo Kim, Luuk Schroder, Jiyong In, Park Kyujae, Il-hwan, Chul-woong Jang
Curated by Joshua Minsoo Kim
Supported by multi.projects

Cleaners (Glenn Barit, 2019)
Yung Huling Swimming Reunion Before Life Happens (Glenn Barit, 2024)
January 11
manini Gallery at Hawaiʻi Theatre Center

For multi.projects' zine reading room/exhibition at manini Gallery, I hosted the Hawaiʻi premiere of Glenn Barit's Cleaners and the US premiere of his new short, Yung Huling Swimming Reunion Before Life Happens, followed by a post-screening discussion.

2022

Batang West Side (Lav Diaz, 2001)
December 17
Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre

Restored digital print and improved subtitle translation courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum. I moderated a post-screening discussion with Anderson Le (Artistic Director, Hawaii International Film Festival), and Vincent Bercasio (Hawaiʻi-based photographer and cinematographer).

2019

Cal Poly SLO Film Production Society screenings
LAES Lab & Expressive Technology Workshop

May 16: Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)

April 11 - May 23: Focus on India
The Big City (Satyajit Ray, 1963)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957)
Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam, 1998)

April 4: Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018)

March 14: A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1984)

February 7: Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970)

January 31: Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

January 24 - March 7: Focus on Senegal
Camp de Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembène, 1988)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
Félicité (Alain Gomis, 2017)

January 10: Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)

2018

Cal Poly SLO Film Production Society screenings
LAES Lab & Expressive Technology Workshop

November 29: 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008)

November 15: Throw Down (Johnnie To, 2004)

October 25: The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)

October 18: Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)

October 4: La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)

May 3: Sky Hopinka shorts program

January 25: Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)

2017

Korean Cinema 2017
September 2 - 23
Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre

Programmed under Taylour Chang's fantastic mentorship as an intern at the Doris Duke Theatre.

Warriors of the Dawn (Jung Yoon-chul, 2017)

A Taxi Driver (Jang Hoon, 2017)

The Mayor (Park In-je, 2017)

Bluebeard (Lee Soo-youn, 2017)

The Net (Kim Ki-duk, 2016)

On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015)

Our Love Story (Lee Hyun-ju, 2016)

The Battleship Island (Ryoo Seung-wan, 2017)

Anarchist from Colony (Lee Joon-ik, 2017)

Gook (Justin Chon, 2017)