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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2006

PROGRAM 6

MAY 5 - 10:00 p.m. - Directors Guild of America, Theater 2

ROOM 710

(Canada, 2005) Dir.: Ann Marie Fleming

In a metropolitan hotel room, a guest has trouble falling asleep. The commotion next door doesn't seem to help matters...

35mm, 8 minutes, color, animated narrative

THE MOTEL

(United States, 2005) Dir.: Michael Kang

Ernest lives and works at the family business, a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way with his Mother, his Grandfather and his little sister. Though he's only thirteen, Ernest has to take on the responsibilities of man of the house since his father has abandoned the family. After school, Ernest cleans all the vacant rooms, baby sits his eight-year-old sister Katie and, at night, watches the front desk making sure that guests pay for their three-hour check-ins. His mother, meanwhile, belittles his accomplishments at school, perhaps fearful that Ernest may actually be growing into an individual. And then Sam Kim checks in. Sam, a charismatic Korean American man who has his whole life packed in the trunk of his car, has come to the motel to sleep with as many ethnically diverse prostitutes as possible and hopefully to forget about the crumbling life he left behind. Sam sees himself in Ernest, a boy lost in the worst stages of pre-pubescence with nobody to help guide him. Sam becomes inspired to take Ernest under his wing and teach him the steps to manhood....

35mm, 74 minutes, color, narrative
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