No one makes a movie in a vacuum. Even filmmakers working with the most micro of microbudgets want their films to be seen; movies are, after all, a mode of communication, a way of celebrating shared experiences or locating common ground amid differences. It’s no wonder filmmakers who make a big splash with a small film often want to stretch their horizons by working on a larger canvas, with a fatter budget and flashier stars, all in the service of speaking to us. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] One of the surprise indie hits of 2020 was Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, an intimate, semi-autobiographical drama about a Korean American family struggling to establish a farm in rural Arkansas.