Kim's Video
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Synopsis
With the ghosts of cinema past leading his way, cinephile and filmmaker David Redmon sets off on a seemingly quixotic quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily.
For two decades, New York City cinephiles had access to a treasure trove of rare and esoteric films through Kim's Video. Originally run by the enigmatic Yongman Kim out of his dry-cleaning business, his franchise eventually amassed 55,000 rental titles. In 2008, facing a changing industry, Mr. Kim offered to give away his collection provided that it stay intact and be available to Kim's Video members. In a bid to revitalize tourism, the small Italian village of Salemi, Sicily became home to the archive. But after the initial publicity faded, so too did any sign of the collection. Enter filmmaker David Redmon, who credits Kim's Video for his film education. With the ghosts of cinema past leading his way, Redmon embarks on a seemingly quixotic quest to track down what happened to the legendary collection and to free it from purgatory.
David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's playful documentary embraces various filmic forms, from cine-essay and investigative nonfiction to experimental cinema and even heist movies, to fashion an ode to the love of cinema and the enduring power its stories hold.
Screenings
Awards
Chinese Documentary Academy Award, Best Foreign Film Award
SitgesIFF Best Sitges Documenta Award
Audience Award, Best Feature, Scumdance Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary Award, Histeria International Horror, Fantasy, & Sci Fi Film Festival
Honorable Mention, Festival Villa Del Cine
Special Mention, Archivio Aperto Film Festival
Award Winner, Chatham Kent International Film Festival
Best Documentary, Cinema Cappuccino Film Festival
Mejor Cortometraje Documental, Santiago Festival De Cine Del Mundo
Best Documentary Feature, Crossing the Screen Film Festival/Eastbourne Film Festival, UK
Best Documentary Feature, Fredericksburg Film Festival
Award Winner, Wolf Media Film Festival
Festivals/Screenings
World Premiere-Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA
Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado, USA
Tribeca Film Festival, NY, NY, USA
Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey
Archivio Aperto Film Festival, Bologna, Italy
Arkipel International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
Beijing International Film Festival, Beijing, China
Bergman Week, Faro, Sweden
Calgary Underground Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
Ciudad del Este Independent Film Festival, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Chatham Kent International Film Festival, Chatham, Canada
Cinema Cappuccino Film Festival, Jaipur, India
Cinetopia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Corrosivo Film Festival, San Jose, Costa Rica
CPH: Dox, Copenhagen, Denmark
Crossing the Screen Film Festival, Eastbourne, UK
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, USA
Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival, Cuzco, Peru
Docpoint, Helsinki, Finland
DC/DOX, DC, Maryland, USA
Diaspora Film Festival, Busan, Korea
Doc Film Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Docudays, Kiev, Ukraine
Docville, Leuven, Belgium
Dokufest, Prizren, Kosovo
Eastern Oregon Film Festival, La Grande, OR, USA
El Grito International Fantastic Film Festival, San Cristobal, Venezuela
Fantasmagoria Festival de Cine Fantastico y de Terror de Medellin, Medellin, Colombia
Fantaspoa Film Festival, Porte Alegre, Brazil
Fanstic Fest, Austin, TX, USA
Festival Europeen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Villa del Cine, Villa de Leyva, Colombia
Film Festival Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Floripa Que Horror, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Folkestone Documentary Film Festival, Folkestone, England
Fredericksburg Film Festival, Virginia
Frightfest, London, UK
Geneva International Film Festival, Geneza Switzerland
Histeria International Horror, Fantasy, & Sci Fi Film Festival, San Jose, Costa Rica
Insolito Festival de Cine Fantastico, Lima, Peru
International Film Festival of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Jeonju Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Kickoff Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway
Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, England
Lichter Film Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
Macabre Faire Film Festival, Hendersonville, TN, USA
Manchester Film Festival, Manchester, UK
Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN, USA
MOViE MOViE, Shanghai, China
New Haven Documentary Film Festival, New Haven, CT, USA
Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, Newburyport, MA, USA
Off Cinema Documentary Film Festival, Poznan, Poland
Offscreen Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Oslo Pix, Oslo, Norway
Panama Horror Film Festival, Panama
Paracinema Cult Film Festival, Derbyshire, England
Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ramaskrik Film Festival, Oppdal, Norway
Revelation Perth International Film Festival, North Perth, Australia
Rising Sun Internationl Film Festival, Fukuoka, Japan
Rome Film Festival, Rome, Italy
Romford Film Festival, Romford, England
Santa Fe International Film Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Santiago Festival de Cine Del Mundo, Santiago, Chile
Scumdance Film Festival, Sparks, NV
Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Sitges Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Sole Luna Doc Film Festival, Sicily, Italy
St Louis Film Festival, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
The Loft Film Festival, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Athens, Greece
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Weird Weekend, Glasgow, Scotland
Whanau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata, Japan
