Imagination Works

Projects Refuge Ten Thousand Roses In the Shadow of Gold Mountain Diasopra Eve Love is a Four-Letter Word Syndicated Life The Cardboard Spaceship		Projects
	Official Website	Refuge 70min \|documentary\| HD Co-Writer/Director: Karen Cho Producer: InformAction Films Broadcasters: Radio Canada, CBC Summary: Five asylum seekers set out on the lengthy journey to be accepted as refugees in Canada. Plunging into the experiences, hopes and struggles of asylum seekers looking for protection, *Seeking* *Refuge* follows newly-arrived claimants awaiting their hearings and captures the lives of those who have been denied asylum and are facing deportation. From border crossings to refugee shelters, a moving look at the lives of people who navigate Canada’s complex refugee determination system after escaping war, persecution, rape and political unrest.
		Ten Thousand Roses (In Development) Writer/Director: Karen Cho Producers: Productions Virage, National Film Board of Canada Summary: *Ten Thousand Roses* chronicles the four-decade history (1960s-1990s) of the second wave of feminism in Canada. Based on Judy Rebick’s novel, the documentary brings the book’s insightful and stirring oral history to the screen in an exhilarating and moving account of the thousands of Canadian women who organized, protested and fought for change. The story is brought to life through interviews and live action scenes with dozens of Canadian feminists while a vibrant blending of archival footage, audio recordings, music and photographs evoke this era of profound social change.
	Official Website Video Podcast of Official Appology	In The Shadow of Gold Mountain 43min \| documentary \| DVC Pro Year of Production: 2004 Writer/Director: Karen Cho Producer: National Film Board of Canada Broadcaster: CBC NewsWorld (Roughcuts & The Lens) Summary: In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes filmmaker Karen Cho from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark chapter in our history, from 1885 until 1947, plunged the Chinese community in Canada into decades of debt and family separation. At the centre of the film are personal accounts of extraordinary Chinese Canadians who survived an era that threatened to eradicate their entire community. Through a rich melding of history, poetry and raw emotion, this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations, with deeply moving testimonials, it reveals the profound ways this history still casts its shadow.
		Diaspora (in development) Supported By : Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho Summary: *Diaspora* is the story of the transnational soul. This experimental documentary will journey along the creation of identity and collective memory in the cultural products of diasporic communities. Focusing on female Canadian artists, writers, musicians, and dancers from diasporic backgrounds, the film will feature people whose identities have been formed in Canada, yet whose roots lie elsewhere.
		Eve 12min \| Science-Fiction \| 16mm Year of Production: 2001 Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho Summary: A dark film about a future where advances in genetics have reverted gender roles back to archaic times. Females are used as incubators for a superior human breed- their sole function to manufacture life. After escaping her incubation tank, EVE 187 finds herself caught in the underworld maze of the GenLab. In this world gender dictates. Eve knows she must hide the fact that she is female or face execution. Here the female race is an endangered species. But is she the only one?
		Love is a Four-Letter Word 12min \| Docu-Fiction \| 16mm Year of Production: 2000 Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho Summary: Complete opposites, Frankie and Derek are forced to redefine their relationship and opinions of love. Is this it or is there a better romance waiting around the corner? Half fiction, half documentary, Love is a Four-Letter Word seeks to answer (or confuse) that age-old question: "What is love?"
		Syndicated Life 6min \| Fiction \| 16mm Year of Production: 1999 Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho Summary: Trying to console herself after a break-up, Jackie turns to her television for salvation. Life and fiction soon intertwine as Jackie begins to see her life through the eyes of the various television shows she watches. Will Jackie's TV addiction help her overcome her personal problems?
		The Cardboard Spaceship 5min \| Fiction \| 16mm Year of Production: 1998 Writer/Director/Producer: Karen Cho Summary: Disillusioned by her conforming adult existence, Sarah discovers her inner child when she meets a group of children building a cardboard spaceship.

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