HOLLYWOOD -- Writer, director and star Justin Chon was inspired to create his new movie, "Blue Bayou," after reading several true stories about immigrant adoptees being deported to their birth ...

Chon's film is stylistically overwrought and narratively overstuffed, but rests on his affecting performance as a New Orleans Korean American facing deportation. To New Orleans family man Antonio ...

From the director of acclaimed independent films “Gook” and “Ms. Purple,” “Blue Bayou,” tells the story of a uniquely American family, faced with a devastating dilemma. Justin Chon directs, wrote and ...

Filmmaker Justin Chon has built an impressive oeuvre over the past six years. An actor who broke out in the “Twilight” franchise, he has since dedicated his craft to writing and directing ...

Filmmaker Justin Chon has built an impressive oeuvre over the past six years. An actor who broke out in the “Twilight” franchise, he has since dedicated his craft to writing and directing ...

This review of “Blue Bayou” was first published after the film’s premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. From a distance, Justin Chon’s “Blue Bayou” seems to be a movie that would warrant ...

Justin Chon seeks to create conversation and awareness around the complex and sobering realities of immigration in the United States with his Blue Bayou. “I thought it was so cruel and just ...

Justin Chon's film "Blue Bayou" is an undertold immigration story, the potential plight of thousands of people who were legally adopted as children from overseas before 2001, when they were not ...