It's a set up! Welcome to the underworld, inhabited by crooked
cops, reluctant robbers, dirty double crossers and manga-crazy
crime sprees. Buckle in, spin the barrel, and watch your
back in these eight tales of fast times and high crimes.
Are you in or are you out?
TRT: 123 minutes
FAST MONEY
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Jerry Chan
A young Chinatown drug dealer enlists
the help of a violent gang buddy to commit his first home
invasion robbery, but his pursuit of "fast money" yields
unintended consequences that will forever change his life.
Video, 14 minutes, color, narrative
THE DUEL
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Tony Chiu
Two estranged brothers unknowingly must
face one another in a deadly variation of Russian roulette.
One is playing to get out of a gang while the other is playing
to join one. Will either one live long enough to attempt
a reconciliation?
Video, 13 minutes, color, narrative
KULTADO
(Philippines, 2005) Dir.: Lawrence Anthony V. Fajardo
Set in a chaotic provincial marketplace,
Boy, a vegetable vendor, comes to terms with a gang of butchers.
The gang daily torments all vendors asking for "protection
money," bribes & lending scams. When the gang turns their
sights on Boys' brother and father, he now prepares for
the fight of his life. He realizes it's now time to fight
back for their own survival-kill or be killed.
Video, 22 minutes, color, narrative
POLLEN
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Chil Kong
Peter loves Theresa. Theresa loves Peter.
He thinks she's an actress. She thinks he's a writer. Howard
and John know the truth.
Video, 13 minutes, color, narrative
MOONLIGHT
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Alice Chen
Three young women run an underground
business selling little red boxes in the night. While buyers
line up in dark alleys throughout the city, a homeless man
discovers their secret.
Video, 16 minutes, color, narrative
SAFE
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Ming Lo
Esperanza, a well-trained field agent
hurrying to reach a safe house, struggles to recount the
events that had led to a failed field operaton earlier that
day. Suddenly, she hears knocking coming from the elevator.
Gun in hand, Esperanza cautiously approaches the door. Listening,
she hears a series of knocks, the signal that she and fellow
field agent Siebel had agreed upon for entry. The sight
of Siebel is welcomed, yet not all is what it seems....
Video, 12 minutes, color, narrative
GOOD BAD KARMA
(United States, 2005) Dir.: David Takemura
A desperate junkie and a dangerous femme
fatale try to outsmart each other and both receive a karmic
lesson.
Video, 15 minutes, color, narrative
BUNNY & CLYDO
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Rocky Jo
Bunny is always stylish, always pink,
loves short skirts and long boots so she can pose and kick
maximum butt at the same time. Clydo, a true graduate from
the school of hard-knocks complete with a tattoo on his
neck and a gun in his pants, is 100% bad boy. Together,
they run rampant through the city streets as they cause
notorious petty crimes, robbing stores of their popsicles
and beloved manga comics. Their latest robbery, though,
lands them smack in the middle of a police trap, as Nicholas
Troy, loose-cannon rookie detective-of-the-year, suddenly
surprises them...
