Tie a Yellow Ribbon
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Tie a Yellow Ribbon is a 2007 award winning film by Korean-American director and writer, Joy Dietrich
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It portrays the complex emotions for young adult Asian American women through its main character, Jenny, as a Korean adoptee in America struggling thorough life and difficult relationships. It was filmed and takes place in New York City.
It was aired on PBS
television, in the ITVS series, in May 2008.
Joy Dietrich
Joy Dietrich is a Korean-born American journalist, writer, filmmaker, and producer. Her 2007 film Tie a Yellow Ribbon won several awards. Although born in Korea, she is an American adoptee, who grew up in the United States....
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It portrays the complex emotions for young adult Asian American women through its main character, Jenny, as a Korean adoptee in America struggling thorough life and difficult relationships. It was filmed and takes place in New York City.
It was aired on PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
television, in the ITVS series, in May 2008.
Awards
- CineVegas International Film FestivalCinevegasCineVegas was a film festival held annually at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas that ran from 1999 to 2009, typically in early June. Robin Greenspun serves as the Festival president, and Trevor Groth serves as artistic director. Actor Dennis Hopper is the chairman of the Festival's creative...
2007, Special Jury Prize, Joy Dietrich, Best Director. - Urbanworld Film Festival 2007, Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Feature, Joy Dietrich
- San Francisco Women's Film Festival 2008, Best Feature Indy
- Delray Beach Film FestivalDelray Beach Film FestivalThe Delray Beach Film Festival is an independent film festival that screens films and documentaries from all over the world.The first Delray Beach festival was held in 2006 in Delray Beach, Florida...
, May 2008, Director's Choice for Best Feature
Festival showings
- San Francisco International Asian American Film FestivalSan Francisco International Asian American Film FestivalThe San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival presented every March is the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, annually presenting approximately 130 works in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, USA...
, USA, 18 March 2007 - VC Film Festival, USA, 6 May 2007
- Silk Screen Asian American Film FestivalSilk Screen Asian American Film FestivalThe Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as...
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 15 and 17 May 2008
External links
- Official site for the film at JED Films
- ITVS press release for the film
- Industry profile of the film - VarietyVariety (magazine)Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
magazine