Shorts: How do I Say This?
86 min
Amongst tender moments, heartbreaking rejection, and cool SoCal nights, the films in this program ask: How do you tell someone what’s really going on — the complete and unadulterated truth? Whether revealing you want to be more than friends, accepting a diagnosis that will change your life, or admitting that you need help, these films focus on one of the hardest things for a person to do: open up and let themselves be vulnerable.
Playing as part of this program:
Saturday, March 7th
8:00 PM
Regal LA Live 13
Down Dog
Shae Xu
2019 | 9 min | English
When the new guy she’s been seeing shows up in her yoga class, Tammy must reveal her truth in her own way.
Touch
Song Huang
2019 | 12 min | Chinese
Yue, recently blind due to illness, uses his phone’s screen reader function to connect with other men on apps; but how close is he willing to let them get?
Before It’s Too Late (Antes que seja tarde)
Leandro Goddinho
2019 | 15 min | Portugese
On the eve of anti-LGBTQ Bolsonaro’s regime, two teenage country music superstars, locked in a hotel room, decide to change the course of their lives
Lily Chan & The Doom Girls
Andrew Thomas Huang
2019 | 5 min | English
In 1960s LA, a repressed Chinese American girl joins a group of impossibly cool misfits who adopt her and challenge her to find her own voice
Plus
Andrew J Rodriguez
2019 | 14 min | English
When Zaire’s life is upended by a sudden HIV diagnosis, he carries the burden alone, struggling to tell his closest friends.
Kama’āina (Child of the Land)
Kimi Howl Lee
2019 | 15 min | English
After suffering abuse from her stepfather, Mahina must navigate life on the streets until she eventually finds refuge at the Pu’uhonua o Wai’anae — Hawaiʻi’s largest organized homeless encampment.
Tender
Felicia Pride
2019 | 15 min | English
After an unexpected one-night stand, two women at very different stages of their lives, share an even more intimate morning after.