Keeping the Vision Alive (2002): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2002, Keeping the Vision Alive is a documentary film directed by Yim Soon-rye, running about 51 minutes.

What it’s about. Keeping the Vision Alive is a documentary film containing the voices and images of Korean women filmmakers-both senior filmmakers and also the peers of director Yim. The film is Yim’s homage to both contemporary Korean women filmmakers, written by a filmmaker of the same age, and also to the history of women filmmakers in Korea. Yim does not reveal her own voice or opinion and lets the voices and images of the filmmakers speak for themselves through a non-interventionist camera. From the pioneers, Park Nam-ok, and Hwang Hye-mi, who directed First Experience in 70’s, to recent filmmakers, Byun Young-joo and Jang Hee-sun, the film traces their experiences, troubles, concerns and thoughts as women and women filmmakers. Keeping the Vision Alive calmly and enthusiastically encourages and celebrates the struggles, the resistance and the survival of women filmmakers in a conservative Korean film industry and a male-dominated and sexist social system. (Kwon Eun-sun)

Who’s in it. Keeping the Vision Alive stars Choi Eun-hee as Herself, Nam-ok Park as Herself, Hwang Jeong-sun as Herself and Hwang Hye-mi as Herself, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Keeping the Vision Alive page.

If you liked it. Fans of Keeping the Vision Alive tend to enjoy One Direction: This Is Us, Burn the Stage: The Movie, BTS World Tour: Love Yourself - Japan Edition and Senna.