Crossroads

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RUWATAN

canadian premiere

15 min • 2018 • Indonesia • Bahasa Indonesia, English • Drama

Accompanying her blind mother to alternative therapy is one of Sri's weekly routines . Today might be their last visit .

Best Short Film - 15th Indonesian Film Festival Australia • RIIFF New England Director's Award - FLICKERS' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2020

UNDER THE FLAG

canadian premiere

15 min • 2019 • USA • Mandarin • Drama

Yiyi is a naive but driven girl, pressured by her mother to get the lead role at a dance performance at school . When Yiyi discovers that her mother has bribed the teacher to buy her the part, she’s conflicted about accepting the coveted part which she now considers to be tainted .

ERNEST LESMANA is an Indonesian filmmaker currently residing in Boston, MA . His works explore stories about familial bond, intergenerational issues and cultural identity, and often feature characters from the margin of society . He graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Film Production .

WRITER Ernest Lesmana PRODUCERS Jennifer Octivana, Nonie Pahmi CINEMATOGRAPHER Fajar Ridho Ilahi CAST Vonny Anggraini, Anne Yasmine, Johannes de Britto

JIAWEI CHENG is a graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory (Directing) and NYU’s Tisch Film and TV program (Class of 2016) . Her thesis film, NEW YEAR won Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor at the Wasserman Award of NYU's First Run Film Festival .

WRITERS Jiawei Cheng & Dhruv Kanungo PRODUCER Danwen Lei CINEMATOGRAPHER Leo Purman CAST Michelle Chuang

TO BORROW, TO KEEP

world premiere

11 min • 2020 • USA • English, Cantonese • Drama

Cheryl Wu and her mother Janine share a family secret: her uncle and Janine’s younger brother, Gary, has a gambling addiction . Provoked by a recent visit from Gary, Cheryl will have to decide if the family secret is worth keeping buried .

AMERICAN BODIES

canadian premiere

11 min • 2019 • USA • English • Dark Comedy

It’s a routine day for the women working inside the shipping and packaging facility at the American Bodies Manufactory… until an unexpected delivery reveals an awful truth .

EVAN AT THE CRACK OF DAWN

canadian premiere

16 min • 2020 • USA • English • Dramedy

Evan wakes up in the desert with no memory of how he got there . He soon meets Dawn, a not-so-angelic messenger angel assigned to guide him home . Only by working together can they return to their own lives; but it’s not going to be a walk in the clouds .

BASURERO

canadian premiere

17 min • 2019 • Philippines • Tagalog, English • Drama

BASURERO is about Bong, a Filipino fisherman, working in an urban fishing village on the outskirts of Manila . Desperate for cash, he dumps bodies into the ocean for the drug war’s faceless vigilantes . He wrestles with guilt and tension rises when the killings hit close to home after he discovers his neighbor has been murdered for selling shabu (crystal meth) .

VICTORIA PARK is an actor, filmmaker, and dreamer, best known for playing Kamilla Hwang in CW's THE FLASH . CHANELLE WANG is an actor, writer, poet, and filmmaker . She has appeared on screen, including ABC’s GENERAL HOSPITAL and CBS’ SWAT .

WRITER Chanelle Wang PRODUCER Theresa Chiu CINEMATOGRAPHER Victoria Park CAST Chanelle Wang, Cici Lau, Wilky Lau

A first-generation Korean-American born in the Colorado foothills, RAMMY PARK is an HBO Directing Fellow and a Film Independent Fellow twice over . She tells stories about fierce and conflicted people trying to make sense of an incomprehensible, often absurd, world . She writes on Amazon’s THE WHEEL OF TIME .

WRITER Rammy Park PRODUCERS Jhanvi Motla, Adanne Ebo, Amy Ma CINEMATOGRAPHER Kunitaro Ohi CAST Nancy Ma, Natasha Liu, Julie Ow, Julia May Wong, Hanna-Lee Sakakibara

ROXY SHIH is a Taiwanese-American Emmy-nominated writer/director . Her first feature THE TRIBE was acquired by Empress Road Pictures . She helmed episodes of DARK/WEB, a series released on Amazon Prime in 2019 with a World Premiere at SDCC . Her second feature PAINKILLERS was also released in 2019 on Hulu .

WRITER Chanelle Wang PRODUCER Theresa Chiu CINEMATOGRAPHER Daphne Wu CAST Deyo Forteza, Chanelle Wang

EILEEN CABILING grew up as the only Asian in her class in Richmond, Virginia and is passionate about exploring the Filipino diaspora . She is a graduate of the American Film Institute, a Women in Film Scholar, recipient of the William J . Fadiman Award/Best AFI Screenplay and the ABC/WALT DISNEY Talent Grant .

WRITER Eileen Cabiling PRODUCERS Eileen Cabiling, Darlene Catly Malimas, Sascha Brown Rice, Jose Carlos Mangual, Eva Husson CINEMATOGRAPHER Jae Hyuk Lee CAST Jericho Rosales

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