Mu Films

What it reported doing in 2024

MU FILMSPROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2024In 2024, Mu Films continued distribution of its films to educational institutions throughout the U.S., and continued production on our newest documentaries, Relative Strangers and Viviens Wild Ride. Our activities are described below.Crossings DistributionCrossings tells the story of international women including Nobel Peace Prize winners who are working for peace on the Korean peninsula. In 2024, Crossings was made available on the PBS channel and on Amazon Prime. The film also screened at UC Berkeleys Center for Korean Studies and continues to be made available to colleges and universities through the educational distributor Collective Eye.Geographies of Kinship Exhibition Geographies of Kinship looks at the history of international adoption from Korea through the eyes of people who have been adopted to the U.S. and Europe. The film screened as part of "70 Years of Korean Adoption: Wandering Memory, Traces Beyond," at the Seoul Int'l Cinema & Media Festival (Nemaf 2024). Geographies of Kinship also screened in The Netherlands as part of a week-long program about adoption called Far From Here.Relative Strangers ProductionMu Films continued production on this film about a group of mixed race adopted Koreans on their journeys to find their roots and relatives. In 2024, we completed filming key scenes with a Dutch Korean adoptee meeting her African American cousin, as well as footage with her adoptive family members in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Viviens Wild Ride Post ProductionMu Films continued work with filmmaker, Vivien Hillgrove, on her documentary, Viviens Wild Ride, about her decades of work as a film editor and her encroaching blindness due to macular degeneration. Off-line editing of the film was completed in December 2024, with sound mix and color grading scheduled for first quarter of 2025.Educational DistributionGeographies of Kinship, First Person Plural and In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee continue to be distributed to colleges, universities, libraries, and K-12 schools through New Day Films and are all available to the public for free at public libraries through Kanopy. Memory of Forgotten War is also available to educational institutions and the general public through Kanopy.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -59.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings