Riceboy Sleeps Screening and Q&A

Q: About Michelle Cho

Michelle Cho is Assistant Professor of Korean Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Her work explores contemporary South Korean genre cinemas, Korean television, K-Pop’s politicization on digital platforms, and histories of race and racialization in K-Pop and its fandoms. She is co-editor of Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader and Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea and author of the forthcoming monograph Genre Worlds: Global Forms and Millennial South Korean Cinema. Her public-facing writing appears in such venues as The Los Angeles Review of Books, and she’s a frequent commentator on Asian media in outlets ranging from NPR to the CBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and the Washington Post. She once hosted a public conversation between hallyu stars and BFFs Lee Jung Jae and Jung Woo Sung at the Toronto International Film Festival

Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute present a special screening of Riceboy Sleeps on November 27. Actor Ethan Hwang, from Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, will join for a post-screening Q&A, moderated by Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of U of T’s Department of East Asian Studies Michelle Cho.

Riceboy Sleeps follows So-young, a Korean single mother, raising her adolescent son Dong-hyun in the suburbs of Canada during the 90s. Determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in her native country, she does her best to overcome the constant racial and cultural challenges that confront them. As Dong-hyun gets older, he becomes increasingly curious about his Korean heritage and in particular, about his deceased father – a topic that So-young refuses to address.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave
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About Ethan Hwang

After sustaining an injury playing competitive hockey, Ethan Hwang transitioned to his acting career. Ethan began by booking commercials and smaller roles, he eventually booked the role of Young Ben in the widely acclaimed Netflix hit The Umbrella Academy. He went on to shoot the award-winning film Riceboy Sleeps and the highly anticipated feature film, Isle Child.

About Michelle Cho

Michelle Cho is Assistant Professor of Korean Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Her work explores contemporary South Korean genre cinemas, Korean television, K-Pop’s politicization on digital platforms, and histories of race and racialization in K-Pop and its fandoms. She is co-editor of Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader and Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea and author of the forthcoming monograph Genre Worlds: Global Forms and Millennial South Korean Cinema. Her public-facing writing appears in such venues as The Los Angeles Review of Books, and she’s a frequent commentator on Asian media in outlets ranging from NPR to the CBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and the Washington Post. She once hosted a public conversation between hallyu stars and BFFs Lee Jung Jae and Jung Woo Sung at the Toronto International Film Festival

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