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NEXT UP... JOY SONG

verybody is a story. If you want to quickly get a sense of someone, quiz them on their film diet. And so, when it comes to Joy Song, who looked like she hailed from the Goth/ art clique in secondary school, the last film that the filmmaker watched was a Korean horror movie that follows a detective investigating a spate of random killings. Aside from the VFX and the acting, Song zeroes in on the story structure, marvelling at how Korean films don’t ‘follow the three-act structure’ that she was taught. “There are several storylines that go all over and yet, somehow,” she continues, “it’s streamlined that it still

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