LOS ANGELES, October 30th -- MEETING YOU, MEETING ME an engrossing drama film about friendship by Korean American director Lina Suh will enjoy a week-long awards’ run from November 15-21st at Laemmle Noho 7. The film previously competed at CAAMFest, the Asian American International Film Festival, Pasadena International Film Festival with a Best Director nomination, and LA Femme International Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Feature.
MEETING YOU, MEETING ME tells the story of two women from different walks of life who both need a friend in this moment, when they cross paths by chance and form an unlikely friendship.
MEETING YOU, MEETING ME is written and directed by Suh, produced by Sharon Sunjung Park, with executive producers Anna Park and Samuel Yeunju Ha, co-executive producers Junghwan Kim and Hyojung Shin, and associate producer Paul Ji Hoon Lee. The film stars Annika Foster (Deadly Girls Night Out), Sam Yim (Transformers: The Last Knight) and Patrick Luwis (Cobra Kai). Cinematography is by Heyjin Jun and Dawn Suhyun Shim, editing by Daniele Joi and Yu Jung Hou, and music composed by Henry O.
“This film is a testament of so many friendships, old and new, that enabled this, from the writing of the script through production, all the way to sharing it in theaters now. It’s surreal and exciting when people say they see their own friendships reflected back at them through these characters,” says Suh.
Meeting You, Meeting Me (2024)
MEETING YOU, MEETING ME will screen from Friday, November 15 – Thursday November 21 at the Laemmle Noho 7, 5240 Lankershim Blvd,, North Hollywood, 91601.
Watch the Trailer
Tickets can be bought at https://www.laemmle.com/theater/noho-7?date=2024-11-15
For more information, or to interview Lina Suh, please contact Deborah Gilels at gilelsdeborah@gmail.com or at 818-648-9513.
“Meeting You, Meeting Me”
Film Synopsis
An unexpected, much-needed friendship arrives at your doorstep. Two women from very different walks of life -- a Korean American divorce attorney who is very rooted in her immigrant family's upbringing, and a Californian college dropout searching for herself after being canceled online -- both desperately need a friend in this moment, when they cross paths by chance and form an unlikely friendship.
Filmmaker Bio
Lina Suh grew up in Seoul, Korea; the American Midwest; and New York. Lina produced several fiction shorts in New York and Los Angeles, and directed a short humanitarian documentary FLOW ON THROUGH in Cambodia that was in a World Bank-issued “Water and Sanitation” guide distributed to NGOs in developing countries.
She has taught screenwriting at ESRA (Ecole Superieure de Realisation Audiovisuelle) a French film school satellite in NYC. She directed short films SO F*CKING HAPPY FOR YOU and GOOD FACE which was later developed as a TV series with Sony Pictures TV and HBO Max.
Lina is in development to write and direct film and TV projects with an eye towards co-productions with Korea. She was the story editor on DR. BRAIN, Apple TV+'s first Korean language series. MEETING YOU, MEETING ME is Lina’s first feature film as a writer and director. She received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in Dramatic Writing and an MFA from the University of Southern California in film production.
Lina Suh - Director Statement
She has taught screenwriting at ESRA (Ecole Superieure de Realisation Audiovisuelle) a French film school satellite in NYC. She directed short films SO F*CKING HAPPY FOR YOU and GOOD FACE which was later developed as a TV series with Sony Pictures TV and HBO Max.
Lina is in development to write and direct film and TV projects with an eye towards co-productions with Korea. She was the story editor on DR. BRAIN, Apple TV+'s first Korean language series. MEETING YOU, MEETING ME is Lina’s first feature film as a writer and director. She received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in Dramatic Writing and an MFA from the University of Southern California in film production.
Lina Suh - Director Statement
My closest friendships have been the guiding forces throughout my life. Foremost are my two sisters who grew up with me across continents in Korea and in America. Then, my high school best friend is Mexican American living in Minnesota, and my college best friends are from Calcutta in India, Nebraska, New Jersey, Washington -- of Indian, Irish, Taiwanese, Lebanese descent.
These women are all so different from each other, and different from me, but they have each challenged me with the ways they think and live their lives, they ground me with their awareness, we belly laugh together, they annoy me, they cry with me, they listen, and we have continually chosen to spend copious amounts of time together. A glimpse into a friendship like this, perfect with its imperfections, specific, intimate, surprising in its subtleties, is the story I want to share. I want the audience to walk away from this film, recognizing themselves and their closest friends in the characters Sav and Simone, and be moved by the transformative effect different people can have in our lives when we let them in.
Cast - Leads
Annika Foster
Sam Yim
Cast - Additional
Patrick Luwis
Jennifer Pak
Bornila Chatterjee
Steve Greist
Rachel Byrd
Nicole Teeny
Alex Egan
Jamie Roy
