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Benson Lee is a filmmaker I've had the great pleasure of working with on numerous occasions, so I was thrilled to learn that his newest film, Seoul Searching, was chosen as part of the Premiere Lineup in the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Few songs have caused as much of an international pop culture sensation as Pharrell's 2013 hit single "Happy." But perhaps the most remarkable quality of the song is the way that it has spawned a trail of videos from different regions and cities around the world, creating a sense of the world being united by the infectious joy of dancing and clapping along to a single song.

In creating works of art, artists can often find themselves on quasi-mythical journeys of their own. For Raoul Dyssell and William “Sonny” Sonbuchner, co-directors of the independent film Amiss, the struggle to get their film made in some ways follows the trajectory of the Hero’s Journey.