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Filmmaker Celine Song's first feature film is being described as the best Sundance Festival debut in years.
Past Lives is a modern-day love story, centered on the lives two childhood sweethearts, separated when one - Nora - leaves South Korea for the US.
Song, known for unorthodox and confrontational plays, wrote the film script in 2018, weaving in parallels of her own life as an immigrant to Canada.
Her previous works include the critically acclaimed broadway show Endlings, and she also, among other projects, directed a live production of Chekhov's The Seagull using The Sims 4 on Twitch for New York Theatre Workshop.
Past Lives is screening as part of the New Zealand Film Festival. She speaks with Susie Ferguson. Past Lives is screening as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival.
