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Film Screening

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon"

Director, Joy Dietrich



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April 30, 2008
Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center 153 W. 12th Avenue
Reception - 5:30
Film Screening - 6:00
Panel Discussion - 7:30

with Joy Dietrich and Rebecca Nelson, Assistant Vice President, Student Affairs and Director, Muticultural Center, The Ohio State University

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TIE A YELLOW RIBBON is a rare view into the very real, emotionally complex interior of a Korean adoptee who needs to reconcile her feelings on race, identity and family, that have nothing to do with her birth-mother search. This film is one of the first feature films to address the abnormally high rates of suicide and depression among Asian American women. This groudbreaking work entices and challenges us to look at the hard, imperfect stuggles that Asian American women face on a daily basis.


* June 2007: TIE A YELLOW RIBBON wins top prize BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE at the
Urbanworld Vibe Film Fest in New York City!

* June 2007: Director Joy Dietrich snags the BEST DIRECTOR AWARD at CineVegas Film Festival!

"Engrossing and poignant. Makes a fresh, credible impression" - Dennis Harvey, Variety.

"Elegant and touching... Using gorgeous location photography in tandem with an evocative soundtrack, Dietrich gives the film a lyrical quality, as we drift in and out of Jenny's dreams" - Benjamin Spacek, Las Vegas Weekly.
Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at The Ohio State University, Dr. Lynn Itagaki, Professor of English at The University of Montana, Missoula will present Joy Dietrich at the panel discussion. For more information e-mail itagaki.5@osu.edu.
Sponsored By:
The Department of Women's Studies
The Women's Studies Film Forum
The Multicultural Center
Asian American Studies Program, Colleges of the Arts
and Sciences
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Korean Studies Initiative


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Background Art: "You Can Make Statistics Look Like Whatever You Want" by fiber artist Carol Phillips Whitt