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Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Victoria
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Shopping Mall
12 minutes a73 2007 a73 USA a73 In Competition
13 minutes a73 2009 a73 USA/China a73 In Competition
Friday 9:50a
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Sunday 9:50a
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Monday 3:20p
Thursday 12:00p
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Friday 3:00p
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Sunday 6:00p
Plays with: They Killed Sister Dorothy (p37)
Plays with: The Garden (p29) Sponsor: Rogue Creamery
Director/Producer/Editor: Charles Sommer a73 Cinematographers: Jeremy Eckstein, Kennedy
Helm a73 Principal Cast: Simon Fletcher, Presley Jones, Fred Stewart, James Stuart, Vivian
Directors: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano a73 Producers: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, Xiaoli Zhou a73
Vaughn a73
victoriathemovie.com
Cinematographers: Andy Black, Brent Huffman a73 Editor: Sam Green a73 Music/Composer:
documentar
Matt McCormick a73 Principal Cast: Ted Deswart, Alex Hu, Huang Jingcheng
Victoria, an old upright grand piano located in San Francisco’s
St. Anthony Dining Room, is visited and played daily by many
The South China Mall, the world’s largest, once symbolized
of the city’s homeless and low-income population. Although
China’s economic prowess. The reality, however, is a more
she’s out of tune, missing keys and has broken pedals, Victoria,
complex metaphor for the future of global capitalism. [subtitles]
as one guest says, “is just like us, she may be all broken but she
still plays, she still has a melody.”
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Selected Filmography: Green: lot 63, grave c (2007 AIFF); N Judah 5:30; Pie Fight ’69;
The Weather Underground; Lozano: Reporter Zero (2007 AIFF)
Charles Sommer
Student: San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
Director’s Statement
Spending time in the Dining Room, one
quickly witnesses the extremes of
humanity and the ways in which people
are forced to cope. It isn’t long before you
take note of an old disheveled piano in the corner and the
power and rawness of the music being played on it. This is how
Victoria came to be.
Filmography: Directorial Debut
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