Miracle on Jongno Street

Miracle on Jongno Street (2011)

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Boys, Be Gay!!

A story about 4 gay men who try to lead a normal life in Korea, the conservative and harsh country for LGBT in Asia. In the middle of making a queer film Jun-moon, a director, loses his self-confidence due to social scrutiny regarding his sexual orientation. Byung-gwon, a gay rights activist, has been participating in movements to establish equal rights for homosexual laborers. Young-soo, a chef who moved from the countryside 15 years ago, lived a lonely life but he finds happiness after joining a gay choir. Yol, who works for a major company, dreams of the day him and his partner, can have a legal wedding with overcoming the prejudice against people living with HIV/AIDS.

Date of release
2011-06-02
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Lee Hyuk-sang

Casting

Interesting facts

Miracle on Jongno Street is a 2010 South Korean documentary film directed by Lee Hyuk-sang. The film follows four gay men connected to Jongno, Seoul, and depicts their everyday lives, relationships, activism, and experiences of coming out. It premiered at the 15th Busan International Film Festival in October 2010, where it received the BIFF Mecenat Award, and was released theatrically in South Korea on June 2, 2011.

Production

The film was directed by Lee Hyuk-sang and produced by Kim Il-ran. It was produced by PINKS, a queer feminist media collective, in collaboration with Chingusai, a Korean gay men's human rights organization. According to an interview in Cine21, the film developed from a coming-out project begun by Chingusai in 2003, and Lee became involved while working with PINKS on films related to sexual minority communities.

In a director's note published by PINKS, Lee described the documentary as a record of four gay men living openly amid discrimination against sexual minorities in South Korea. The film was shot in color on HDV. Cinematography was credited to Lee Hyuk-sang, Kim Il-ran, Kim Seong-hui, and Hong Ji-yu; editing was credited to Lee Hyuk-sang and Kim Il-ran; and music was composed by Jeong Ji-yun.

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