FEATURE LENGTH CERAMICS DOCUMENTARY

SEVEN DAYS IN HELSINKI: CONVERSATIONS WITH KYUNGMIN PARK

In November of 2018 Kyungmin Park spent seven days in Helsinki. These are her stories.

Internationally recognized award-winning filmmaker Jesse Borkowski (Real Value) presents an intimate portrait of the life and work of internationally celebrated figurative sculpture artist Kyungmin Park (Emerging Artist, NCECA).

Excellent Documentary Winner San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival

Best Documentary Winner Mile High International Film Festival

Jury Special Award Winner The Golden Wheat Awards

Official Selection Switzerland International Film Festival

Official Selection Richmond International Film Festival

Official Selection Mesa International Film Festival

Official Selection Golden State Film Festival

Official Selection Andromeda Film Festival

Official Selection Anatolia Film Festival

About Kyungmin Park

Originally from South Korea, Kyungmin earned her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia in 2012 and her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2008. Currently, Kyungmin is an Assistant Professor of 3D studio Art at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. Park was a long-term resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana where she earned the 2014-2015 Matsutani Fellowship and the 2015-2016 Windgate Fellowship. Park has won multiple awards; her most recent recognition being from the National Council on Education the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), which granted her the 2016 Emerging Artist of the Year Award; Ceramics Monthly Magazine also gave her that same designation in 2015. Kyungmin was invited as a 2017 Guest Artist at the Jingdezhen International Studio in Taoxichuan Ceramic Park, Jingdezhen, China and one of her recent exhibitions, 74th Scripps College Ceramic Annual show in 2018, was featured in the LA Times.

About Jesse Borkowski

Jesse is an award-winning filmmaker with extensive production, distribution, and marketing experience. Jesse holds a Masters in Business Administration from Elon University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Animation from Rochester Institute of Technology. Jesse is a nationally recognized Princess Grace Award recipient, a Jury Prize winner at the Szeged International Super8 Film Festival, and a First Place winner at the After Hours Film Festival. Jesse’s work has been awarded 12 Telly Awards, including 2 Gold Awards, in the categories of Viral Video, Social Issues, Social Responsibility, Education, Editing, Recruitment and Use of Humor. Jesse’s first feature length film Real Value is an award-winning economics documentary that delivers a refreshing meditation on how business can be used to create value beyond profit. The film was an official selection of The South African Eco Film Festival, The Sustainable Living Film Festival, has over a million views on YouTube, and has screened dozens of times internationally.