Liquor Store Dreams director So Yun Um with her dad Hae Sup Um
(Picture: BFI/London Film Festival)“If you want to change the world, ground zero is your parents,” So Yun Um told the audience after a screening of her new documentary Liquor Store Dreams as part of the London Film Festival on Monday evening. The Korean-American wants to change with the world in her own way, and so she points her camera at herself and her family.
For her first featurem So decided to expand on an earlier short film of hers called Liquor Store Babies (which is on YouTube here). In telling her personal tale, she strives to tell the story of immigrants everywhere, be they Koreans in LA, Hispanic bodega owners in New York or Chinese families running laundromats.
