Reel Food: A Shorts Program
Sunday, October 28
3:00PM, Bright Family Screening Room, The Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston
(T: Boylston or Downtown Crossing)
Featuring WONDER BOY (dir. Corrie Chen), PEOPLE AREN’T ALL BAD (dir. Matthew Hashiguchi), THE COMMITMENT (dir. Albert M. Chan), BLEACHED (dir. Jessica Dela Merced), CAFÉ ELEVE (dir. Kelly Li), MY 2009 EXPERIENCE (dir. Henry Ho), THE COMMITMENT (dir. Raahul Singh) and NANI (dir. Justin Tipping)
A showcase of some of the finest short films by up-and-coming filmmakers who make cinematic forays into personal identity, family crises and everything else in life.
3:00PM, Bright Family Screening Room, The Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston
(T: Boylston or Downtown Crossing)
Featuring WONDER BOY (dir. Corrie Chen), PEOPLE AREN’T ALL BAD (dir. Matthew Hashiguchi), THE COMMITMENT (dir. Albert M. Chan), BLEACHED (dir. Jessica Dela Merced), CAFÉ ELEVE (dir. Kelly Li), MY 2009 EXPERIENCE (dir. Henry Ho), THE COMMITMENT (dir. Raahul Singh) and NANI (dir. Justin Tipping)
A showcase of some of the finest short films by up-and-coming filmmakers who make cinematic forays into personal identity, family crises and everything else in life.
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Wonder Boy
2012 | 15 mins | Drama Directed by Corrie Chen Young Chinese-Australian Clancy quietly struggles between who he is at school and who he is at home against the backdrop of Chinese New Year. |
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People Aren't All Bad
2012 | 4 mins | Drama Directed by Matthew Hashiguchi Eighty-eight year old Yutaka Kobayashi shares his struggles as a Japanese American before and leading up to the World War II Japanese American Internment Camps. Surprisingly, it was during this dark period in his life that he experienced compassion and kindness from where he least expected it, a gun tower guard from within the Topaz Internment Camp. |
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The Commitment
2011 | 20 mins | Drama Directed by Albert M. Chan Inspired by real events, The Commitment is a moving and heartfelt film about Robert and Ethan, an interracial gay couple who have been chosen from a pool of hopeful adoptive parents by Victoria, a shy and very pregnant Asian birthmother. Susan, the adoption social worker who facilitates their first meeting, helps the trio navigate through the awkward but often times humorous discussions of race, sexual orientation, and outlandish baby names. Gradually, Victoria begins to open up and eventually forges a bond with Robert and Ethan. When the unexpected happens, however, Robert's neuroticism and Ethan's anxiety about fatherhood threaten their relationship. |
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Bleached
2011 | 14 mins | Drama Directed by Jessica dela Merced BLEACHED follows Lenny Blanco, a Filipino-American teenager who just wants to be left alone. Unfortunately her overbearing and image-obsessed mother has other plans, forcing Lenny to model for a skin lightening cream to increase her cosmetic sales. Swayed by the prospect of attention from both her mother and a cute boy, Lenny concedes to the bleaching process at the price of her identity, and possibly her health. Beauty, race, and American identity clash in this 'dark' comedy as Lenny struggles to reclaim herself. |
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Café Elevé
2012 | 5 mins | Drama Directed by Kelly Li Set during a late summer’s evening, Café Elevé tells of a former ballerina who has sacrificed her passion in order to support her family. Upon finding an item left behind by a customer, she rediscovers the freedom she once felt and a connection to a person whom she’s never met. |
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My 2009 Experience
2012 | 6 mins | Drama Directed by Henry Ho Winner of 2012 Short Waves My digital story, My 2009 Experience, is about my experiences in 2009 and focuses on my personal life, my immediate family, and, most importantly, about the passing of my father. I will use the art of making sushi (my father was a sushi chef) to symbolize family harmony and my values. I want to share my experience with you, and to show that within a year, anything can happen and yet life still goes on. |
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Commitment
2011 | 10 mins | Drama Directed by Raahul Singh Rahul, a passionate dancer, decides to give up his dance career to marry Asha, the woman he loves and become a lawyer. Years later he wakes up from a dream and realizes he’s un-happy. |
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Nani
2011 | 21 mins | Drama Directed by Justin Tipping Oscar got caught spraying graffiti. Now doing community service at a nursing home, he meets Isabel who is suffering from dementia. At 84 years, Isabel may be a little “old school”, but soon the entire block is covered with her pink tag. |
