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Winner, Audience Award - Cinequest Film Festival
Winner, Outstanding First Film - LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
Closing Night Film - Vietnamese International Film Festival
Mr. Do (Chi Pham) has raised his kids to be good Catholics and to live up to his unrealistic expectations. His son Ty (David Huynh) is abandoning pre-med to chase a less practical dream, while Linh (Yvonne Truong) is keeping her fiancé?s Buddhist background a secret. However, they aren?t the only kids with secrets in the Do family. It?s time Dad faces the truth that his kids have grown up.
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Partners for Life is a gritty, harsh tragic story of best friends Brad and Tommy, two small-time criminals/drug dealers living in a false reality that was created primarily by the sensationalistic media they grew up with.
Brad and Tommy find that although its easy to get caught up in this fast-paced underground lifestyle, it is difficult to prosper in it. Having to pay back a local drug lord, they seek new ways to make some fast cash.
Partners for Life is a story about influences, decisions and destiny with subtle messages about today's youth.
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A delicious short film about a little girl who learns empathy from a pastry.
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The short film that begs the question: "What do the dead do on their day off?"
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"I tried to introduce information. Risky business." - Jean L?opold Dominique. Following a brief meeting in Haiti in 1987, director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Something Wild) videotaped conversations with Jean Dominique in exile in New York during the 90s - a man whose passion, style and wit captivated Demme. Although Dominique's education was in agriculture, his life took a radical turn when he became the owner and admired personality of Radio Haiti-Inter, the country's only independently owned station.
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Madness and Genius is an arresting debut from 22-year-old director Ryan Eslinger, who became inspired at the age of thirteen to make his film. The result is a remarkable story involving human relationships, redemption and, ultimately, the alienation that results from those who suffer from madness and genius. Frank (brilliantly portrayed by Tom Noonan), a once brilliant scientist and professor, is haunted by a discovery in his past and may be quietly going mad.
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Two women looking for something steal every piece of mail and FedEx packages they can find. Soon, they find something much more valuable than what they were looking for.
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Lesson #1: If your brother talks like Christopher Walken, get him some help. Lesson #2: Never invite him to meet your new girlfriend.
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Two brothers born from the same parents. Oddly, Doug is white and Donnie, black. Yet, it is more than just the color of their skin that makes the two men drastically different. They do share one thing, however - a common goal: money! So, when their mother, whom they have never met, dies, and they are brought together to claim the trailer park she left her two sons, they find themselves challenged to their limits emotionally and physically.
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Fate conspires to unite a reclusive video game junkie with her only connection to the real world... her delivery man.