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Grace Park Helps Launch Asia Pacific Actors Network

by Margie

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It’s been awhile since we covered the lovely and talented Grace Park, also known as Sharon “Athena” Agathorn on Battlestar Galactica. Grace traveled to South Korea last month for the Pusan International Film Festival, where she once again teamed up with Lost’s Daniel Dae Kim … this time to help launch the Asia Pacific Actors Network (APAN).

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While in Pusan Grace participated in a panel discussion on APAN and attended the red carpet gala. During the panel, Grace advised Asian actors to focus on specific goals for their career instead of focusing on stereotypical Asian roles: “I had to really hold out to do this” (the article did not give a context to the quote, so I am not sure what “this” is but I am assuming she was speaking of her developing career).

Grace also promoted her first film, West 32nd, while she was in Pusan. A slick thriller set in New York’s Korea Town, the film follows a second generation Korean American lawyer who takes on the case of a young boy accused of murder pro bono. Grace plays the boy’s brother, Lila, who is also a childhood friend of an ambitious Korean gang member. The two men bond and the movie becomes as much about exploring cultural identity and personal history as murder.

West 32nd has been well received at several festivals this year, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. To see a cute interview with Grace in New York, click here, or to see a trailer for the movie click below.


Posted in Grace Park on November 6th, 2007

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