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    Advantageous

    Jennifer PHANG 2012 USA Fiction color 23min English DigiBeta
    30 years in the future, the unemployment rate in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented proportions. In a highly competitive New York City, Gwen, a hardworking single mother, suddenly finds herself on the verge of unemployment. Determined to send her daughter to an expensive school, how far will a mother go?

    Director

    Jennifer PHANG

    A Berkeley-born daughter of a Chinese-Malaysian father and Vietnamese mother, PHANG graduated from the MFA directing program at the American Film Institute. PHANG's sophomore feature Advantageous won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Special Jury Prize in Collaborative Vision at Sundance 2015. She is also the 2015 recipient of the inaugural San Francisco Film Society Women Filmmakers Grant for genre women filmmakers. With the support from San Francisco Film Society and Sundance Institute, she was able to develop the short version of Advantageous into a feature film.

    Director's Statement ▾

    Jennifer PHANG
    • 2015《2Q41：茱兒的禮物》Advantageous
    • 2012《2041：心靈漫遊》Advantageous (Short)
    • 2008《再見朝陽》Half-Life
    • 2007 Midnight Boycow
    • 2003 The Matrices
    • 2000 Love, Ltd.
    • 1998 Still Life

    Director & Screenplay/ Jennifer PHANG Executive Producer/ Moon MOLSON Producer/ Jayda D.
    THOMPSON Director of Photography/ Ming Kai LEUNG Editing/ Jennifer PHANG, Moon MOLSON
    Original Score/ Timo CHEN Production Design/ Aiyana TROTTER Sound Design/ Tyler STRAUB
    Casting/ Anne TEUTSCHEL Art Director/ Jorge ZERABA Cast/ Jacqueline KIM, James URBANIAK,
    Samantha KIM

    Moon Molson
    moonmole@mac.com

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