• Closing Night: The People I've Slept With

    Oct 11, 09:07 PM by administrator

    Closing Night

    Sun. Nov. 8th, 7:00 PM

    There is no doubt modern relationships can be difficult with navigating unchartered territory. The female leads in this program must make tough decisions in their search for love and self. VAFF alumnus Quentin Lee returns this year with his fourth feature, THE PEOPLE I’VE SLEPT WITH, an edgy sex comedy in which a promiscuous woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy needs to figure out who the baby daddy is. This is preceded by Rumana Huq’s THE CALL CENTER, a “The Office” style look at language and accents.

    The People I’ve Slept With



    Director/Producer: Quentin Lee | Writer/Producer: Koji Steven Sakai | Producer: Stanley Yung
    Narrative | HDCAM | Colour | 2009 | 86 min | USA

    Angela Yang (Karin Anna Cheung) loves sex. She loves it so much she needs to make baseball cards of her lovers to help her remember where she’s been. She doesn’t think twice about her lifestyle until she finds out that she’s pregnant.

    Her gay best friend, Gabriel Lugo (Wilson Cruz), tells her to “take care of it,” but her conservative sister, Juliet (Lynn Chen), persuades Angela to get married to the baby’s father and lead a “normal” life like her. Angela listens to her sister, chooses to keep the baby, and goes on a quest to find the identity of the father by any means necessary. She revisits her recent sexual conquests most likely to have impregnated her: 5-Second-Guy, Mystery Man, Nice-But-Boring-Guy, Mr. Howe, and BFF. She finds creative ways to obtain each of their DNA samples in the hope of identifying the dad and ultimately marrying him.

    Beneath the steamy adventures of THE PEOPLE I’VE SLEPT WITH lies the touching story of the importance of defining friendship and family for a modern woman who must find the path to accept herself.

    CANADIAN PREMIERE | DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE

    preceded by:

    The Call Center



    Director/Writer/Producer: Rumana Huq
    Narrative | DigiBeta | Colour | 2009 | 13 min | USA

    THE CALL CENTER is a short mockumentary about Raj, a Mumbai University dropout who decides to become a call center agent. Trouble begins when Raj fails to impress his new manager during training. But with the help of an overzealous linguistics instructor, Raj gets the verbal skills he needs to finally please his manager with his unique style of handling customers.

    CANADIAN PREMIERE | DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE

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