Obscura / 옵스큐라
Saturday April 5 at 2:30pm - Strength Program
(Victoria, 21:07 minutes, English & Korean)
Sang-Ook, a Hikikomori (shut in) whose locked himself in his room for a year, builds a camera obscura from his room as a conduit to the outside world.
Arnold Lim
Arnold Lim is a writer, director and producer who won Telefilm’s Talent to Watch grant twice and won the Director’s Guild of Canada’s Greenlight award Established Category for Obscura / 옵스큐라, which won the 2024 Leo Awards for Best Screenwriting and Best Short Film. A video journalist of more than a decade and Photography Manager for five Olympic Games, the graduate of the NSI’s Features First program has been a recipient of awards/grants from the B.C. Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, BravoFACT, the Harold Greenberg Fund, and directs his second Telefilm-funded feature film The Bryce Lee Story July of 2025.
CREDITS
Directors Arnold Lim
Screenwriters Claire Mulligan
Arnold Lim
Producers Lynne Lee
Claire Mulligan & Arnold Lim
Cinematographer Daniel Carruthers
Editor Ashley Lynch Original Score Gilles Maillet Production Design Leta Cushing Woodcock
Principle Cast Andrew Woo
Kyu-Nam Cho
Viva Lee