In the summer of 2021, three Korean Americans traveled by bike along the Great Divide, a 2400+ mile bicycle route from Mexico to Canada.
Riding Han’s foundational essence is based on the Korean word “Han”-an inherent and complex part of being Korean that manifests itself through adversity with emotion, expression, and creation. The film captures their journey while exploring their identities as Asian Americans in a divisive time during the COVID-19 pandemic with anti-Asian violence on the rise. “Han brought clarity that this is our time to create.”