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SHORT FILMS PROGRAM 1 PRESENTED BY STELLA ARTOIS fRIDay, OCTObER 15 | 5:30 Pm | REgal DOlE
AIR KNOB HAWAII PREMIERE
CanaDa 2010 | EnglIsh | 8 m DIRECTOR: Nathan Fleet
Two neighbors, one a quiet, would-be folk guitarist, the other a brash wannabe head banger, vie for air supremacy in a take no prisoner battle in a sleepy suburban neighborhood.
THE CONTINUING AND LAMENTABLE
SAGA OF THE SUICIDE BROTHERS HAWAII PREMIERE
UnITED sTaTEs 2009 | nO DIalOgUE | 10 m DIRECTOR: Arran Brownlee, Corran Brownlee
Two brothers with a death wish live out the clockwork like monotony of their every day lives while forever over-looking the presence of their fairy godmother.
EMPIRE CORNER HAWAII PREMIERE
UnITED sTaTEs 2010 | EnglIsh | 12 m DIRECTOR: J.P. Chan
After witnessing the brutal attack of a Chinese food deliveryman, a young African American woman goes in search for a relationship that might have been.
THE GREEN TIE AFFAIR WORLD PREMIERE
UnITED sTaTEs 2010 | EnglIsh | 13 m DIRECTOR: Dane Neves
A short musical about a green tie-wearing puppet who is deprived of his identity when people around him begin to copy his fashion style.
THE HAPPIEST MAN ALIVE HAWAII PREMIERE
UnITED sTaTEs 2010 | EnglIsh | 12 m DIRECTOR: Andrew M. Goodman
An allegorical comedy about a day in the life of a man who instead of wearing his heart on his sleeve, wears a knife in his heart.
JUNKO’S SHAMISEN HAWAII PREMIERE
CanaDa 2009 | EnglIsh, jaPanEsE W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 10 m DIRECTOR: Sol Friedman
Set in the rural backwoods of feudal Japan, a young peasant girl named Junko, returns home to discover her blind grandfather brutally murdered and vows revenge.
MASALA MAMA HAWAII PREMIERE
sIngaPORE 2010 | hOKKIEn W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 9 m DIRECTOR: Michael Kam
When fate brings a young boy aspiring to be a comic artist and a gentle grocery shop owner together, they each discover something much more important.
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TICKETS UNITED STATES PREMIERE
sIngaPORE 2010 | manDaRIn W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 10 m DIRECTOR: Sherman Ong
This film centres on Xiao Jing, a ticket seller in an old cinema in Singapore. She came from China to study acting in Singapore and her ambition is to break into the Singapore film industry as an actress.
WU IS DEAD HAWAII PREMIERE
UnITED sTaTEs 2010 | EnglIsh, manDaRIn W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 13 m DIRECTOR: Richard Wong
Wu is dead, and his sister is pissed. Sun Mei can’t get over her brother’s death, so she decides to seek out the wrongdoers one by one and apply apt vengeance.
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