Alan Ng

Chase Your Dreams

By Alan Ng | October 2026

Far be it from me to tell a child about life’s harsh realities or to tell them never to dream about the…

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Far be it from me to tell a child about life's harsh realities or to tell them never to dream about the future. In Brandon Oldenburg and Limbert Fabian's...

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As the saying often credited to Hippocrates goes, "Desperate times call for desperate measures." In Amir Zargara's dramatic short, Vital, a mother must...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! What happens when you reach the top of the rock-and-roll mountain at 26 and there's nowhere left to go but down?...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! In writer-director Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal's environmental, apocalyptic short film Europa, in the...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Director Harrison Buck's short documentary Dragon Mom is not the film you expect. It's a story about a mother...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! It's 2010, and Iran's government does something almost too strange to believe: it bans the mullet. Yes, that...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! It's common sense. When you send your child to college, they shouldn't die within months of arriving. Daniel...

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Do we finally have a good video game movie after a year of wasted efforts? I don’t know. It’s fair to enter these things with a great deal of...

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Can you outrun the inevitable? In Jewel Maranan's documentary short, Remigia's Lessons, an Indigenous elder asks what will become of the land when she and...

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In the wake of the tragic events of 9/11, ordinary citizens stepped up to the plate and became heroes. Dale Fabrigar's dramatic short, Boatlift 9/11, tells...

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