EP 510: Dr. Samuel Jamier On The New York Asian Film Festival & Being a Korean Adoptee

Dr. Samuel Jamier was adopted as a 4-year-old from Korea by a strick Catholic family in the Brittany region of France. Growing up, he was an altar boy and into heavy metal music, but later developed an enormous passion for films. Today he’s a skilled fundraiser, speaker, arts programmer, and serving as the president of the New York Asian Film Festival, which has become North America’s leading festival of popular Asian cinema, and one of the top, most anticipated and critically acclaimed events in New York City.

NYAFF brings Asia to New York with an immersive 2-week festival. An energy-filled event designed to bring new perspectives, experiences, ways of thinking and seeing that provoke thought, bring wonder, and new visions to their audience. It presents the roughest, sharpest, and smoothest of today’s cutting-edge Asian film scene to sold out audiences each summer.