Film & TV

As a filmmaker, Greg Pak is best known for his feature film Robot Stories, which won 35 awards and played in over 70 film festivals. Pak studied at the NYU Graduate Film program and won a Student Academy Award for his short documentary Fighting Grandpa. Pak’s recent short films include Happy Fun Room and Mister Green.

Feature: Robot Stories

Short: All Amateur Ecstasy, Asian Pride Porn, Cat Fight Tonight, Everybody’s Supersonic, Fighting Grandpa, Happy Fun Room, Happy Hamptons Holiday Camp for Troubled Couples, Mister Green, Mouse, Mr. Lee, Ode to Margaret Cho, Penny Marshall Project, Po Mo Knock Knock, Super Power Blues

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Get free tickets to see “Mister Green,” other shorts, at the AAIFF in NYC!

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Want free tickets to see Greg Pak’s “Mister Green” at this weekend’s Asian American International Film Festival in NYC? Here’s the scoop from AsianAmericanFilm.com on how to get ’em:

All you have to do is follow aafilm on Twitter. Then send a tweet asking for tickets to one of the following shorts programs: “It’s a Little Bit Funny,” “Back to the Future,” or “Untold Stories.” Click here for more about the programs.
[“Back to the Future” is the program featuring “Mister Green.”]
Then we’ll send you a direct message back via Twitter to seal the deal and you’ll be off to the movies!
Please note you must be 18 years or older.
Don’t wait — go to http://twitter.com/aafilm now and make your request!

Report on the Woodstock in the City screening of “Mister Green”

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The fine folks at TheFilmPanelNoteTaker.com have posted a report on the Woodstock in the City screening of “Mister Green” and other Futurestates shorts. An excerpt:

Pak said he began outlining the story for Mister Green in 2008 during the election. With talk of “change in the air,” he found himself thinking how hard change really is, and that nobody wants to really change on a personal level or in any way at all. To him, the idea of fundamental change is something we’re inevitably going to have to face within the next generation, and science fiction is a safe place to try out different ideas about what real change might entail. This was a chance for him to take this notion to the biggest extreme he could build around the topic of climate change and global warming. People have given him different reactions on his film. One friend told him that he found it to be really optimistic, while someone else said it was a horrifying vision of the future.

Click here for the whole thing.

2010.06.30 – “Mister Green” in NYC – Woodstock in the City

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From the Woodstock Film Festival newsletter:

June 30 – WFF’s WOODSTOCK IN THE CITY SERIES, presents
FUTURESTATES – a compilation of shorts
How will Americans live in the 21st century? Which political and social issues will have dire consequences in 10 or 20 years? On Wednesday, June 30th, at 7:30PM at 92Y Tribeca, the Woodstock Film Festival and 92Y Tribeca are proud to present five inspired short films, created by visionary independent filmmakers (including WFF alum Tze Chun), that comment on our contemporary world by depicting a series of dystopian never-never lands of the near future.
Films will include:
Mister Green by Greg Pak won the Best Short Film Award at the Sci Fi London Film Festival.
The Rise by Garret Williams features an older couple that must forego their dreams of retirement.
Silver Sling by WFF Alum, Tze Chun has corporations offering to pay for chemically accelerated surrogate births.
Tent City by Aldo Velasco takes place in a world where housing is granted only to the powerful.
Tia And Marco by Annie J. Howell shows us a world in which all American citizens in good health are required to serve one year in a government job.
A Q&A with participating filmmakers will follow the screening.
FUTURESTATES is a co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS)

2010.06.04 – 06.14 – “Mister Green” at the Ohio Independent Film Festival

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Greg Pak’s short film “Mister Green” will screen at the Ohio Independent Film Festival as part of a special program that will be shown at Blue Arrow Records, The Cafe at Arts Collinwood, and the Market Avenue Wine Bar before the festival (June 4 to 11) and in the lobby of the Beachland Ballroom during the festival (June 12-14).
Click here for the full festival schedule.