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<div id="pico"><p>Get the career training  you need to start a  rewarding career in  Also Offering:  Medical Administrative Assistant  Pharmacy Technician  Residential Heating, Ventilation, Air  Conditioning Technician  NATIONAL INSTITUTE of  TECHNOLOGY Visit us online at about-nit.com   9100 US Hwy  290 East, Building 1, Suite loco  Austin, TX 78754  Branch Campus of NIT, Southfield, MI  46:  TESOROS Milagros, Retablos  and Arte Popular  0 TRADING COMPANY FOLK ART & OTHER TREASURES FROM AROUND THE WORLD 209 CONGRESS AVENUE 512 / 479-8377 OPEN DAILY 10-6, FREE PARKING BEHIND THE STORE www.tesoros.com   Interview, continued from page  25 poor area outside Mexico City] for 20  years, serving underprivileged Mexican  kids. This project is like an extension  lead or a conclusion to the documentaries that I have made. Like I mentioned,  I want to explore stories of Korean  women in strange places and how the  kind of extraordinary circumstances  that these women have faced shape their  character.  I want to stay in the United States for  a couple of years, working. But eventually I’ll go back to Korea and direct TV  dramas or documentaries made for TV.  TV dramas in Asia are huge. Right now,  it is Korean TV dramas that are dominating Asian pop culture. There’s even  a word to describe this phenomenon:  “The Korean Wave.” This is a dream for a  filmmaker who wishes to reach as many  viewers as possible. If there’s any chance  for me later on, making fiction films in  Korea would be nice, too.  I have submitted  K-Town  to [an international documentary festival] and the  Seoul Women’s Film Festival; I’m waiting to hear from them. Also, I’ve talked  to a nationwide TV network. If everything works out, there’s a possibility  that we will work together to make this  project longer to televise nationwide.   Josh Rosenblatt is an arts writer based in  Austin.  Sulu, Naga  International Headquarters   .  Come Visit us for LUNCH! In addition to our organic  coffee, pizzas, empanadas, pastries and pies, we  now prepare made to order sandwiches, salads,  and even black bean gazpacho.  3601 S. Congress off E. Alpine  Penn Field  under the water tower   check our site for monthly calendar  JULY 8, 2005 THE TEXAS OBSERVER 31 </p>
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