STORY CAST FILMMAKERS FEATURES SCREENINGS PHOTOS PRESS

..A Film By Wonsuk Chin

STORY CAST FILMMAKERS FEATURES SCREENINGS PHOTOS PRESS  

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Read the latest stories and reviews about e-dreams, dot-com documentaries and the whereabouts of Kozmo co-founders Joseph Park and Yong Kang.

Reviews

The Village Voice

The whirling dervish at the center of Wonsuk Chin's superb documentary, e-dreams, is Joseph Park, CEO and co-founder of the late, kinda great Kozmo.com. He shares some of the seven habits of highly effective people with Kaleil Tuzman, a fellow Goldman Sachs refugee who dominated last year's Startup.com and the pay-parking-tickets-in-your-undies site it chronicled. But unlike the delusionaries at govWorks.com, Park actually thought to give the people what they wantóvideos and snacks delivered in under an hour. That the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that Chin's film serves up with style and empathy.  
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Variety.com

"e-dreams" plays out in quite a different offscreen context than did last year's similarly themed sleeper "Startup.com." While there's surely a great deal of overlap between [the] two nonfictioners, and "e-dreams" may suffer from perception that this subject has "been done" on the arthouse circuit already, [this] thoroughly engaging pic has its own distinct virtues.

Fast paced docu debut for U.S. Korean emigre Wonsuk ChinÖsports sharp HD lensing, brisk editorial rhythms and apt use of techno-club tracks.

Seattle Weekly 

"Filmmaker Wonsuk Chin manages to make the dot-com saga captivating again, thanks in part to his charmingly sympathetic central character, Kozmo co-founder Joseph Park, who seems as amazed as anyone at his company's dumb luck. Park's garrulous good humor keeps you rooting for him, even as the market falls and the company tanks. There are plenty of priceless momentsÖ" See full review

 

Indie-Underground.com

"Director Wonsuk Chin's maiden documentary effort, "e-Dreams" opened a few weeks ago to well deserved fanfare at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in NYC, sponsored by the Independent Feature ProjectÖThis is a brave and rare indie production - well worth catching if you possibly can." See full review

 

Seattle Post Intelligencer

"[Kozmo] could be the definitive story of the great dot-com gold rush of the '90s and this documentary tells it well: mostly through the eyes of Kozmo's publicity-hungry co-founder Joe Park, who appears to have had a camera trained on him through every stage of his rise and fall." See full review

 

Media Coverage
New York Daily News

 

Casualties of Enterprise -- Two documentaries explore the bursting of the dot-com bubble 

Industry Standard

 

No Surprise Endings in these Dot-com Documentaries 
New York Observer

 

Dead Dot-com of the Day
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