Visual Communications Best of the Fest 2009
Best of Fest Program 1: July 25
Best of Fest Program 2: August 7
Best of Fest Program 3: August 27
Best of Fest Program 4: September 9
Best of Fest Ticket and Venue Information
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THE CHICKENS HAVE ESCAPED!
Ladies and gentlemen, here it is…the showcase completely assembled, curated and presented by our stable of Visual Communications summer interns. Besides providing a survey of the astounding breadth of filmmaking styles and themes, this program serves as a sort of homecoming for many of the artists in this program — some newcomers, others veterans of Film Festivals past. We invite you to join us as we celebrate once again our talented cinema artists.

DJ:LA (USA, 2007)
Dir.: Jerry Chan  |  Video, 5 min.
DJ:LA is a short film that remixes the frenzied sights and sounds of the Los Angeles landscape to uncover the rhythm and melody of the city. It takes inspiration from turntablism — the record manipulation techniques of a DJ — and attempts to translate it to film.
AROUND THE WAY (USA, 2008)
Dir.: Ruby Flores  |  Video, 11 min.
AROUND THE WAY is a slice-of-life tale about a young girl, a love-struck boy, a very special Filipino dish, and how they all come together on a day in Jamaica, Queens.
I LOVE SUSHI (USA, 2009)
Dir.: Sadako Matsuura  |  Video, 3 min.
This short film takes an intimate look at food, family, and the benefits of a Japanese diet.
INITIATION (USA, 2009)
Dir.: Nadine Truong  |  Video, 17 min.
A sushi chef-in-training is finally given the opportunity to move out of the kitchen. The apprentice's training goes well until the owner subjects him to a most unusual and humiliating initiation rite.
THE OUTER LIMITS REDUX (USA, 2008)
Dir.: Anne Kaneko  |  Video, 3 min.
A meditation on identity and the passage of time-THE OUTER LIMITS science fiction television series ran from 1963 to 1965. In quick flashes, THE OUTER LIMITS REDUX shows how things have changed, approximately twenty years into the future.
BEING REEL (USA, 2008)
Dir.: Patricio Ginelsa  |  Video, 6 min.
On the last day of a local film festival, screenwriter Justin thinks he may have found the girl of his dreams but his pragmatic director friend Richie tells him the real scoop about "Destiny".
BLUEBERRY (USA, 2008)
Dir.: David Lee   |  Video, 5 min.
A lonely man with a little money seeks the companionship of a $73 hooker. Hilarity ensues when he gets exactly what he asked for.
DRAIN (USA, 2008)
Dir.: Derek Shimoda  |  Video, 5 min.
A chance encounter leads to a beautiful, fleeting relationship between two vastly different types — one is a plumber, and the other is most definitely not.
FREE MATT WONG (USA, 2008)
Dir.: Akio Mitsunaga  |  Video, 9 min.
How conducive is the modern public school environment to student creativitiy? In 2007, Matt Wong dared to experiment and learned not to mess with bureaucracy.
NOISE (USA, 2009)
Dir.: Krishna DK, Raj Nidimoru  |  Video, 14 min.
When three men steal a bag containing a bomb from the local train, they are forced to embark on a ride across the city to find an empty place to blast the bomb in peace.
ONE NIGHT IN LA (USA, 2009)
Dir.: Ray Huang, Jon Maxwell  |  Video, 4 min.
Inspired by the fleeting nature of dreams, ONE NIGHT IN L.A. is an impressionistic mood piece that endeavors to recover dreams, images, and feelings through stop motion high-speed photography.
THIS WILL ALL MAKE PERFECT SENSE SOMEDAY (USA, 2008)
Dir.: Peter Long-Cuu Phan  |  Video, 14 min.
In this re-imagining of Haruki Murakami's short story "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning," a man imagines the kind of life he might have had with a woman he met years earlier in his youth.