14th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 26 - Jul 11, 2015

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North American Premiere

The Whistleblower

제보자

Yim Soon-rye (one of Korea's few female directors) turns in the All The President's Men of biotechnology with The Whistleblower, a powerhouse thriller based on the true story of one of the biggest scientific frauds of the 21st century. Dr. Lee is a thoughtful scientist whose pioneering work with cloned stem cells is spurring talk of the Nobel prize. He is also a monster who has faked his research and when a TV producer gets involved, The Whistleblower becomes a white-knuckle thriller where secret phone calls, boardroom confrontations, DNA analysis, and conversations that contain double, and sometimes triple, meanings are assembled into a high-performance engine designed to flood your brain with outrage. Not since Michael Mann directed The Insider has the world of corporate medical research seemed so out of control, so bleak, and so deadly.

Director: Yim Soon-rye
Cast: Ryu Hyeon-gyeong, Park Won-sang, Yu Yeon-seok, Lee Gyeong-yeong, Park Hae-il
Languages: Korean with English subtitles
2014; 113 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Tuesday July 7, 8:45pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center

Director Yim Soon-rye will attend the screening.

Yim Soon-rye
임순례

Born in 1960, Director Yim Soon-rye's short Promenade in the Rain (94), won prizes at the Seoul, Clermont Ferrand, and Fribourg film festivals. Yim's first feature, Three Friends (96) won the award for best Asian film at the first Busan International Film Festival. Her sympathy for those who are marginalized continued to show in The Waikiki Brothers and Forever the Moment (08), based on the true story of the 2004 Korean women's national handball team. Her latest movie, The Whistleblower, is showing at this year's festival.