“I remember hearing my mom saying so many times we should never have left Korea. She would see the way that I was growing up and the fact that I was speaking English and not speaking Korean as well, and she would fear the things that we were forgetting.”

American filmmaker

Lee Isaac Chung is an American filmmaker known for his debut feature, Munyurangabo. The film was released in 2007 and was selected for the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Munyurangabo was the first narrative feature film made in the Kinyarwanda language, a distinction that has drawn attention to Chung’s work. He is associated with independent filmmaking and with a career that began with a film noted for its language and festival recognition.