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PROGRAM 16, 5:00 p.m.
Directors Guild of America, Theatre Three

Ring of Flames
TRT: 75 minutes

This set of powerful narrative shorts comes full circle, delivering stories which move within and beyond these frames of life: birth, growth, and or passing. These stories foreground protagonists and key turning points in their lives where families may try to make and/or break them.

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KATA PRACTICE
(Canada, 2004) Dir./Scr.: Siu Ta
David, a six-year old, junior green belt practices for his final fightÖ Sometimes not even the best of moves can block lifeís challenges.
Video, 4 minutes, B/W, Narrative

  
 


A RAINY DAY
(United States, 2004) Dir./Scr.: Kit Hui
Katie has longed to have a child for some time with no success. When she finally does confirm her pregnancy, however, it is on an unlucky day: the funeral of her mother. Trying to come to terms with her mother's death, Katie has a hard time accepting her own motherhood. But when she overcomes her struggles, she comes to understand something more profound: the fragility of life and the importance of living.
Video, 12 minutes, Color, Narrative
  
 


AFTERNOON (Buoi Chieu)
(United States, 2004) Dir./Scr.: Kim Spurlock
A ghost returns home for a visit on a rainy afternoon. Drawn by the grief of her husband and the desire to experience the vestiges of physical sensation, the spirit of the family matriarch comes calling.
Video, 10 minutes, Color, Narrative
  
 


SILENT YEARS
(United States, 2004) Dir.: James Sereno; Scr.: Lois-Ann Yamanaka
After years of repression, a woman must journey back to her past and confront memories of teenage abuse while growing up on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Adapted from selected poems by renowned Hawai'i author Lois-Ann Yamanaka, SILENT YEARS tells a universal story using the unique dialect of Hawai'ian Pidgin English.
Video, 13 minutes, Color, Narrative
  
 


SOPHIE
(United States, 2002) Dir./Scr.: Helen H. Lee
Sophie, a young Korean America youngster, goes to great lengths to rescue her mother and older sister from a life of domestic abuse by the family patriarch. She finds, though, that the means of escape is not as simple as it seems. This deliberate, devastating short was the 2002 Student Academy Award winner for short film.
Video, 30 minutes, Color, Narrative
  
 
 
 LOWER EASTSIDE STORIES: SOFIA
(United States, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Liselle Mei
Sofia, a too-young Puerto Rican girl sees the young teenaged men and women in her Lower East Side neighborhood and goes to extreme measures to look and act as grown-up as they are. The leadoff segment of an omnibus short entitled LOWER EAST SIDE STORIES, SOFIA is at turns tender and terrifying, capturing the lead characterís seemingly misguided struggle for validation and self-fulfillment.
Video (Originated on 35mm), 6 minutes, Color, Narrative		  
DGA