People Are the Sky Screening
Boston University, School of Theology
Hosts the screening of
People Are the Sky
94 minute documentary, 2015
Directed, produced, written, and narrated by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson,
a Korean American born in North Korea
a Ph.D from Boston University, Graduate School/School of Theology
at the George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Ave., 2nd floor.
November 3, 2015 at 5 pm
The Film
When Dai Sil Kim-Gibson lost her husband in the winter of 2009, she lost her true “home – she felt she became homeless. Alone in America, she set out to explore whether her place of birth in North Korea could be her home once more. Searching its cities and mountains shrouded in myth and misunderstanding, she met people – ordinary citizens, In-min. Eventually she found home not in places, not in North Korea as a country, but in the ordinary people. People Are The Sky is the documentary film chronicling this all important personal journey of self discovery.
Writer/Director Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is the first Korean American filmmaker to be given official permission by the North Korean government to film inside its borders. The view she captures is unprecedented and at times startling as she weaves her own personal story as a native born North Korean forced to flee her homeland, with the history of the North and South Korean division and the genesis of North Korea’s hatred of the United States in her latest documentary People Are The Sky. A mix of talking heads, epic sequences and poetic musings, “People Are the Sky” refers to the ordinary people she meets along the way and the ultimate truth of her pilgrimage.
Bishop Hee-Soo Jung will respond to the film and engage in conversation with Dai Sil Kim-Gibson. Bishop Jung, elected to the episcopacy in 2004, is currently serving the
Wisconsin Area. He will be arriving at Boston directly from his trip of North Korea.
Reception will follow.