TIE A YELLOW RIBBON
by Joy Dietrich, Fiction, 87', 2000, 35mm, USA
With Kim Jiang, Jane Kim, Patrick Heusinger, Ian Wen, Thérésa Ngo, Grégory Waller

Estranged from her family due to a childhood indiscretion with her white brother, a young Korean adoptee woman seeks to regain a sense of home by exploring ties with the Asian Americans she meets in her new apartment building, until suddenly, her brother shows up at the door, stirring up long lost feelings that she has tried to bury.

JOY DIETRICH
Korean-born American filmmaker Joy Dietrich started out in working for various magazines. While living in Paris in the late 1990's she came to feel that film was the artistic medium that would allow her to express herself most fully. In typical all-out fashion she moved to New York and immersed herself in learning the craft, on her own and without film school. This process culminated in the production of Joy's autobiographically inspired first film, SURPLUS, a critically acclaimed 16mm short dealing with the devastating effects of poverty on the children of a Korean family.