{"id":14710,"date":"2023-09-17T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/?post_type=fest_movie&#038;p=14710"},"modified":"2023-12-25T22:11:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T22:11:29","slug":"paradise","status":"publish","type":"fest_movie","link":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/fest_movie\/paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Minki Hong<br \/>\nScript: Minki Hong<br \/>\nProducer: Todd A Henry<br \/>\nWith: Six anonymous gay men<br \/>\nSouth Korea, 30 minutes, 2023, Korean with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Festivals:<\/strong><br \/>\nWicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival 2023<br \/>\nKorea Queer Film Festival 2023<br \/>\nJeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, 2023<br \/>\nSan Diego Asian Film Festival<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n\u201cParadise\u201d<\/em> revisits South Korea\u2019s era of authoritarian development (1970s-1980s) through the lens of queer livelihood. Despite the harsh realities of successive dictatorships, compulsory military service, and expectations of marriage and children, six elderly gay men reveal how they converted second-run theaters and nearby bars into popular sites of erotic liberation, same-sex friendships, and romantic encounters. Using rare footage of Seoul\u2019s only extant second-run movie house, visual archives, and historical animation, \u201c<em>Paradise\u201d<\/em> documents South Korea\u2019s vibrant gay underground before the solidification of democracy and the introduction of the internet in the 1990s. Along the way, it follows the pain and joy of queer citizens, whose stories appear for the first time in this empowering film of self-discovery and community building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Minki Hong Script: Minki Hong Producer: Todd A Henry With: Six anonymous gay men South Korea, 30 minutes, 2023, Korean with English subtitles Festivals: Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival 2023 Korea Queer Film Festival 2023 Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, 2023 San Diego Asian Film Festival \u201cParadise\u201d revisits South Korea\u2019s era of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/fest_movie\/paradise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paradise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-14710","fest_movie","type-fest_movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"original_name":"","credits":null,"directors":null,"actors":null,"producers":null,"\ufeffscript_writers":null,"festivals_and_awards":"","country":"","release_date":"","duration":"","language":"","age_rating":"","movie_galley":"","poster":"","screening_hours_and_events":null,"general_link_to_by":"","trailer":"","trailer_2":"","tags":[],"logo":null,"sponsors":"","collection":"","collection_item":["Part of a collection"],"support":null,"":""},"custom_fields":{"original_name":"","directors":false,"producers":false,"festivals_and_awards":"","country":"","release_date":"","duration":"","age_rating":"","movie_galley":false,"poster":false,"general_link_to_by":"","trailer":"","trailer_2":"","tags":false,"logo":false,"collection":"","collection_item":["Part of a collection"],"support":false,"actors":false,"\ufeffscript_writers":false,"language":"","screening_hours_and_events":false,"sponsors":""},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Paradise-300x200.jpg","featured_image_url_resized":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Paradise-300x200.jpg","tags":false,"crowd":false,"competition":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fest_movie\/14710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fest_movie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fest_movie"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fest_movie\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14711,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fest_movie\/14710\/revisions\/14711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlvfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}