CAA Signs ‘Gook’ And ‘Blue Bayou’ Filmmaker Justin Chon

Key Highlights

• Related Stories News Justin Chon & Elijah Bynum Teaming On Sci-Fi Film ‘Capsule’ For 20th Century Studios Legal CAA To Appeal Range’s Arbitration Win In Equity Battle Released by Samuel Goldwyn Films, Gook follows two Korean American brothers who run a small shoe store and form an unlikely friendship with a young Black girl from their neighborhood during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, as racial tensions and violence escalate around them.
• Chon’s debut feature previewed his talents as a filmmaker offering up richly cinematic and character-driven explorations of the Asian American experience.
• Subsequent lauded efforts in that vein have included Ms.
• Purple, which premiered in U. S.
• Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and Blue Bayou, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and was released by Focus Features.