Shorts
They may be short, but they pack a punch! One of the gem’s of festival is it’s imaginative and talent filled shorts program. This year, emerging and established filmmakers converge, bringing films that highlight love and loss, complex family dynamics, issues of home and land, and visions of the future. Whatever your taste, there is bound to be a short for everyone.
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Dead Meadows
Jaime Lastimosa / Shorts / Philippines / 2013 / Bay Area Connection, Music Video / 3 mins
When the world finally ends, this is the music video you will want playing out the human race.
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Deconstructing My Depression
Sally Tran / Shorts / USA / 2013 / Bay Area Connection, Family, Gay/Lesbian / 9 mins
Mental illness is often an ignored issue in communities of color — passed off as an issue experienced only by the rich and the privileged. In this personal narrative, filmmaker Sally Tran breaks down her struggles with depression — as a first-generation Vietnamese American and as a member of the queer community.
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Distance Between
R.J. Lozada / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Documentary, Short / 9 mins
Filmmaker R.J. Lozada has offered to be a sperm donor for a lesbian couple wanting to conceive. Knowing that he might not play an active part of the child’s life, this documentary serves as a sort of love letter to the child, in an attempt to establish a paternal bond.
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Employed Identity
Bao Nguyen / Shorts
EMPLOYED IDENTITY explores the phenomenon of Vietnamese abroad returning to the country of their parents’ birth, to find both themselves and successful careers. This year's EMPLOYED IDENTITY features Ham Tran, director and writer of HOLLOW, a feature film filled with horror and vengeance.Precedes: Hollow
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FALLING (SHORTS)
Shorts / 90 mins
FALLING is heartbreak and hilarity, a kiss in the dark, a riot of sound and color. From the glance across a room to the end of the line, these tales touch on what it really means to trip and fall into love.In This Program: After Us, Comfort Girls, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Already, Miss Guidance – EP 4: Persevering, Next Like, No No, Homo, The Seed of Need, Touch Of Essence, Tramp
FALLING (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 14, 2015 9:40 pm Not AvailableFALLING (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 16, 2015 9:30 pm Not AvailableFALLING (SHORTS)
New People Cinema
March 20, 2015 9:20 pm Not Available
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FAMILY TIES (SHORTS)
Shorts / 96 mins
In a whirlwind of doubt, rejection, trust and love, these shorts express the struggle and joy that come out of reconnecting with family. With a few autobiographical stories like GIAP’S LAST DAY and narratives like MAMA TANG, histories emerge between generations of disconnect and silence.In This Program: Cold Spring, Giap’s Last Day at the Ironing Board Factory, Jaya, Mama Tang, My Father, Francis, To Sit With Her
FAMILY TIES (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 14, 2015 2:40 pm Rush OnlyFAMILY TIES (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 18, 2015 7:10 pm Not Available
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Finger Running
Diana Li / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Bay Area Connection, Experimental, Short / 9 mins
Two women run their fingers through eachother's hair in an experimental performance that mimics gestures of desire and intimacy.
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FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)
Shorts / 93 mins
Bold and eye-opening, this mosaic of films takes you to the “Flipside.” These films powerfully illustrate unconventional perspectives, illuminating life’s complexities for all its joy and grief. Created with surprising empathy, these directors assure you that many things, and people, are more than what they seem.In This Program: D.Asian, Dandekar Makes a Sandwich, Give It Up, Hypebeasts, My Hot Mom Gandhi, N. King, The Other Side, Woman In Fragments
FLIPSIDE (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 14, 2015 12:15 pm Not AvailableFLIPSIDE (SHORTS)
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
March 18, 2015 9:25 pm Not Available
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Giap’s Last Day at the Ironing Board Factory
Tony Nguyen / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Culture, Documentary, Independent, Reality / 25 mins
Coming from a trialing childhood, Tony Nguyen tracks back to his small hometown to reconnect with his Vietnamese mother. As he documents his and his mother’s journey, contrasting rural American imagery with Vietnamese subjects, the film captures the refugee history of adapting to life in the US.
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Give It Up
Justin Tan / Shorts / USA / 2014 / Drama, Narrative, Short / 5 mins
A comedian’s job is to make people laugh. But a comedian’s life is mostly far from cheerful. Justin Tan stars and directs himself in a brutally honest depiction of a performer’s struggles and the hope that some good might come out of it.
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