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PURITY

5 April Wednesay, 6pm
WORLD PREMIERE
NaRhee Ahn | 2006 | 96 min | video | USA
Starring Susane E. Lee, Derek Mio, Jae Suh, Chil Kong, and Leonard Wu

Nineteen year-old Grace Kim (Susane E. Lee) is the standard of purity in her small town Korean church, the pride of her Reverend father, and hasn’t left the house in months. Grace is mourning the death of her mother and is paralyzed by depression, nightmares and an obsessive
need for distraction. Her father, her best friend and her Youth Minister counselor have been unable to pull her out of the hole she has fallen into and the only one who may be able to help her is the only one no one wants near her: her ex-boyfriend. Matt Kim (Derek Mio) is a survivor of an abusive father, but his decisions and mistakes have not lent themselves to a bright future. Grace and Matt are going through a lot of what life can throw at you. Learning to trust each other again may be the hardest thing either of them will ever have to do.
Korean American filmmaker NaRhee Ahn, a Delaware native by way of Seoul, brings one side of the Korean American experience to the screen in a film that meditates on what it is like to come of age in a time when faith, hope and those who care about you may not be enough.
Purity is also supported by and all Asian American soundtrack featuring Kevin So, Alfa, Big Phony, The Ides, Ken Oak, Shaheen, and Taiyo.

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