This is a phenomenal short film. I saw "Chinese Dream" at the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, about a month after it won the festival in San Francisco. It is visually rich, evocative of Wong Kar Wai's film-making, particularly "In The Mood For Love". The film would have made the short story writer O.Henry very proud...its fable-like quality, and its innocent lessons. And the authenticity maintained throughout was impressive, particularly considering the foreign-ness of the material. Victor Quinaz is a very talented young writer-director, who I had the pleasure of meeting after the screening. Charming, intelligent, passionate. He and his producing team seem to have bottomless energy and big plans. I understand they are working on a feature film, which I look forward to. Keep your eyes open for these guys.
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warnerloughlin22 October 2004
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deenying8 December 2006I remember seeing this is LA a few years back. Met the director and one of the stars Jim Leung at the screening.
This is one of those very thought-provoking pieces that will make people wonder more about the other half of the people of the world. No spoilers here, but this is something that everyone in the world should see, especially Americans. It is a film about what it means to be American and it does it in about 15 minutes.
Excellent cast, especially down to the supporting cast to include Jim Leung, who's been popping up in Youtube here and there. The nurse, I want to see more of. There are not enough older Asian women in movies nowadays.
The filmmakers should make this movie available for wide distribution or pack it on some other DVD of similar nature. This one needs to be seen by people of the world.