Mukbang is a short film about a white teenage girl fascinated by Korean online culture binge-eating Mukbang shows her sexual awakening.
It is Australian actress Elizabeth Scanlen’s debut film as a director and won the Rouben Mamoulian Award for best short film director at Sydney Film Festival last month.
Eliza Scanlen attends Through Her Lens: on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Source: Invision
The twenty-one-year-old director apologised for racism criticism over the film.
However, the 14-minute film still has more controversy.
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