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Program 60
David Henry Hwang Theatre • 7:00 p.m.
 
FAMILIAR STORIES, LONG FORGOTTEN (RT: 68 minutes)
From whimsical to trenchant, the works that kick off our mid-week evening in J-Town are guaranteed to provoke soul-searching discussion. Who we are, what we do, and the ways in which we express love and affection are in for serious re-evaluation.

LILO & ME
(USA, 2003) Dir./Wtr.: Kip Fulbeck
What celebrity do you most resemble? For longtime VC FILMFEST director Kip Fulbeck, the question starts as a rollicking ride that is part autobiography, part family portrait, part pop-culture survey, and all Disney all the time. Both hilarious and touching, LILO & ME examines the muting of race in mainstream media and its effects on multiracial Americans.
Video, 10 min., color, Experimental




 
CATHARSIS
(USA, 2002) Dir./Wtr.: Debbie Ramos
In this intense yet detached personal documentary, the director, a college student at a local Southland university, recounts her evolving relationship with her mother, who periodically leaves home to maintain an illicit relationship with a convict serving a prison sentence at the California Men's Colony in Central California.
Video, 8 min., color, Documentary





 
SELLING LOUIE’S VILLAGE (WITHOUT BREAKING THE YOLK)
(USA, 2004) Dir./Wtr.: Jason Mak
SELLING LOUIE’S VILLAGE focuses on one of the oldest Chinese restaurants in a predominantly white Oregon town. Nominally a business that sells “inauthentic” Chinese food that panders to the tastes of Caucasians, the restaurant in fact provides a sanctuary from the subtle racism of the outside world. In actuality, selling “inauthentic” Chinese food was never an issue of representation; rather it was an issue of survival in a strange land.
Video, 13 min., color, Documentary

 

 

 

 
better than friends (than ho’n ban)
(USA/Vietnam, 2003) Dir.: Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Thoa and Lam are more than friends. They're young, married, and in business together. Their conncection with the camera is endearing, empowering, and enlightening. Their stories tell of hardships and heroism as they work through the complicated intersections between the economic, political, and social forces in a country fighting to thrive in its post-war history.
Video, 18 min., color, Documentary
 



ODE TO MARGARET CHO
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Susie Lee, Greg Pak
Susie and David drive Danny insane through the repetition of Margaret Cho lines. A day in Korean American suburbia.
Video (originated on 16mm), 4 min., color, Narrative
 





EVERYDAY CHILD
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Jennie Na
A lonely boy longs to escape his troubled life.
Video, 5 min., color, Narrative
 





FRESH LIKE STRAWBERRIES
(USA, 2003) Dir./Scr.: David Au
Emma, a middle-aged woman, is conflicted by her love for her obnoxious husband, Ray, who is going through his mid-life crisis, and her son, Tim, who’s bringing his boyfriend Bradley home for dinner. Bottling up her feelings without an outlet, Emma finally has a meltdown in the local grocery store. Filled with bittersweet feelings, she discovers what she needs to do to keep herself sane.
Video, 12 min., color, Narrative

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