Alan Ng

My Happy Place

By Alan Ng | November 2021

A 7-year-old girl finds freedom on Disneyland’s Autopia in writer-director Devin Scott’s short film, My Happy Place. It’s 1965, and young Anna Boreman…

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A 7-year-old girl finds freedom on Disneyland's Autopia in writer-director Devin Scott's short film, My Happy Place. It's 1965, and young Anna Boreman is...

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AFI FEST 2021 REVIEW! Yimou Zhang's One Second is an odd-little film about the power of cinema and its sway over communities and individuals. The story...

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Considered one of Charlie Chaplin's funniest shorts, The Idle Class celebrates its 100th anniversary. Yes, it's still funny. Running the gamut as writer,...

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Salar Pashtoonyar's short film, Bad Omen, is not a horror film but presents a horrific situation. Pari (Fereshta Afshar) is a widow raising two young...

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Nothing brings more joy to my heart (and the heart of the Film Threat office) than to see small studios take on the big boys. Yes, Pixar. I'm talking about...

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What is one reason we love independent films? As demonstrated in Chris Green's feature film, The Pebble and the Boy, it's learning something new. Have you...

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In Weijia Ma's animated short, Step Into The River, two girls forge a bond through trauma in a small Chinese village. Wei is a young girl living with her...

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