VC Connect #12: Family Matters
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Family Matters
Mother knows best...or does Father know best? Familial entanglements are as timeless as audio recordings, paintings, or even a collection of aluminum cans. In the end, they are just as memorable.
Thank you to the following sponsors for their ongoing support of the Armed With a Camera Fellowship: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Final Draft, Flash Cuts, Los Angeles County Arts & Culture, SAGindie, Sony Pictures Entertainment, West One Music Group, and Writers Guild of America West.
Funding for VC CONNECT has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020.
11 24 (2011) by Michele Gutierrez
A young girl and her grandfather hunt for aluminum cans and use the spoils of their adventure to play the lotto, collecting memories along the way.
BRIDES WANTED (2010) by Michael W. Wong
A young Indian male must deal with his family and culture in the matters of traditional arranged marriage customs. While he secretly dates girls against his parents’ wishes, his parents are heavily pursuing the perfect future daughter-in-law.
IN BETWEEN MY HANDMADE MOMENTS (2013) by Tiger Souvannakoumane
A young woman makes handmade cards to brighten peoples' day, to her father's disapproval. As he witnesses the impact that her gestures have on strangers, he begins to see the meaning of her work.
THE INTERVIEW (2004) by Lushun Quon
A boy finds an audio recording of his grandmother and finds that he did not know her as well as he thought.
L.A. COFFIN SCHOOL (2011) by Erin Li
A once-renowned Chinese painter is kicked out of her son’s home, prompting her to enroll in a controversial school that claims to teach people how to start life anew. The instructor and class exercises force her to re-evaluate life and what it is worth.
MAKOTO: OR, HONESTY (2013) by Christopher Makoto Yogi
The filmmaker travels home to Hawaii to confront the death of his father, and finds peace through the simple act of talking.
MOTHER & CHILD (2012) by Jocelyn Saddi-Lenhardt
A young Filipina woman struggles through an identity crisis when her estranged husband announces his imminent return to the States. Torn between her traditional mindset and her self-reliance, she becomes resentful at her son, who may be the only logical piece in her fractured world.
