Newport Beach Film Festival

The Reception

By Alan Ng | October 2020

NEWPORT BEACH 2020 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! A bowl of strawberries is the focus of Sean Sakamoto’s short film, The Reception. Two fathers, Robert…

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NEWPORT BEACH 2020 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! A bowl of strawberries is the focus of Sean Sakamoto's short film, The Reception. Two fathers, Robert and Gary...

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NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2020 REVIEW! Alonso Llosa's comedy La Restauración takes on aging and the elderly, while set in a gentrifying Peruvian city...

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NEW TO HULU! When you think of comics taking their act on the road, you don’t typically think of comics, you know, actually renting a Mini and hitting...

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As the summer heats up and the world proceeds to reopen, the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) is moving away from virtual screenings and returning to...

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On paper, Stephanie Turner’s Justine really shouldn’t be as good as it is. The story of a mother who neglects her family, but changes her ways after...

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Family is an integral part of every culture. Every culture has more in common with one another than there differences. Writer/director Emily Ting tells her...

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In 2011, a peaceful uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship in Syria ended five years later in a bloodbath of Russian bombs, leaving the...

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From South Korea, The Witness takes a modern spin on the parable The Good Samaritan. Briefly, the Biblical story is about a man, beaten on the side of the...

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In Major Arcana Dink (Ujon Tokarski) is a carpenter by trade, but life has left him rudderless and he drifts from job to job. After living in Canada for...

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“Save the whales” only begins to explain Sea of Shadows, directed by Richard Ladkani. The vaquita, the planet’s smallest species of whale, is near...

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