October 16, 2019
TWO MEN IN L.A.
DescriptionDescription Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John Helliker's offbeat Norha and the Microbabe, a self-centered avant-garde couple become parents of an...
October 16, 2019
UNBECOMING AGE
DescriptionDescription Tom Garvin represents this delightful new US independent film starring Diane Salinger, Wallace Shawn and Colleen Camp It tells the fairy tale-like story of a 40-year-old woman who suddenly finds that she no longer knows what age she is and - wow!- what a difference it makes. Her life, with her new lack of...
October 16, 2019
TO LIV(E)
DescriptionDescription Actress Liv Ullman's 1900 visit to Hong Kong, in which she condemned the deportation of 51 Vietnamese refugees from the colony, has inspired this first feature film by critic/author Evans Chan. The film is structured around a series of imaginary letters to Ms. Ullman, and examines the apprehensive mood of postTienanmen Square Massacre Hong...
October 16, 2019
TROUBLED PARADISE
DescriptionDescription Troubled Paradise takes us to a Hawaii that few tourists will ever see. This beautifully filmed documentary sensitively examines the social and political problems lacing Hawaii's indigenous population through interviews with an incredibly diverse cross-section of the island's inhabitants. At the same time, we get to experience the richness of Hawaiian culture through some...
October 16, 2019
LAND WHERE MY FATHERS DIED
DescriptionDescription Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond when they confront painful memories during a family reunion. No Reply, by Malia Karrell...
