Minseo

Minseo Angelica Kim (she/they) is a 22-year-old Korean-American model based between Baltimore and New York City. They recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and double minor in Philosophy and Politics. After briefly working for Congress, Minseo began modeling professionally for the first time and signed with her first agency in March of 2023. Through this slice of life documentary, we follow Minseo during her first year as a professional model and get a behind-the-scenes peek into their life during this formative stage in her life and career.

  • Emily May Jampel
    Director
    Lucky Fish, Manoa Valley, Wake, Invasive Species
  • Damian Bao
    Producer
    American Honey, Port Authority, Goldie, Lost River,
  • Stevie Borrello
    Producer
    Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, Old Lesbians, Spring Awakening: Those You've Known
  • Minseo Angelica Kim
    Key Cast
  • Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
    Editor
    So Pretty, In Sudden Darkness, Empathy
  • Eric Schleicher
    Cinematographer
    Cicada, A House is Not A Disco, Treatment
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 30 seconds
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Emily May Jampel

Emily is a filmmaker from Oʻahu based in New York City. Her short film Lucky Fish has played at festivals including Palm Springs International Film Festival (Winner, Young Cineastes Award, Special Mention, Best LGBTQ+ Short), Champs-Élysées (Winner, Audience Award), Outfest L.A., Frameline, Inside Out and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and premiered on NOWNESS Asia. She is one of the 2023 Recipients of The New Voices Filmmaker Grant, a new initiative from NewFest in partnership with Netflix.

Emily has curated film programs for Metrograph, Allies in Arts, Brooklyn Art Haus and NowHere Gallery and has served as a Jury member at the Mint Chinese Film Festival and Oakland Drunken Film Festival. She previously worked as a development executive at the Academy Award-Nominated and Peabody Award-Winning production company The Department of Motion Pictures (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, PATTI CAKE$, MONSTERS & MEN, PHILLY D.A.) and was an Associate Producer on the podcast series OPERATOR produced in partnership with Topic and Wondery.

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Director Statement

My goal with this film is to tell a portrait of Minseo in a way that humanizes modeling as a profession and shows a more complex, multi-dimensional side to it, while also giving them as a subject a voice and platform through the collaborative process of making the film. Especially knowing that as a young model who is rarely get to be in a position of power or the opportunity to be on set in a creative capacity or represented in a way that feels true to themselves, it was extremely important for me to make sure Minseo had input on everything from what they wore in the interviews, and even in the styling, creative direction and makeup in the editorial shoot. The environment was very intimate, with a minimal crew of young artists, many of them Asian-American and queer, which was important to me in giving Minseo the opportunity to also see what it felt like to work with artists behind the camera and behind the scenes that she could relate to with less of a hierarchy, which I feel really added to the energy and intimacy and comfortability we were able to foster and hopefully capture on-screen.