Louis Vuitton Hawaii International FIlm Festival 2008

THE AVIATRIX – Lonely Anne, suffering from cancer, finds escape with The Aviatrix, a superhero alter ego.
Director: Toddy Burton, USA, 2008, 10 min.

BEIJING HAZE – For a Chinese immigrant, one dream ends and another one begins.
Director: J.P. Chan, USA, 2008, 9 min.

CHIEF - Samoan chief Semu Fatutoa retreats to Hawaii in an attempt to forget his painful past - until a series of events causes him to confront the very responsibilities from which he is trying to escape.
Director: Brett Wagner, USA, 2008, 21 min.

CITY OF CRANES – 'City of Cranes' is a poetic celebration of the lives of crane drivers, whose work brings them hundreds of feet above the ground.
Director: Eva Weber, UK, 2007, 14 min.

KJFG NO. 5 – Three "professional" musicians, the Bear, the Rabbit and the Wolf are practicing their art in the forest, but suddenly the hunter turns up on the scene...
Director: Alexei Alexseev, Hungary, 2007, 2 min.

PETER AND BEN – 'Peter and Ben' documents the relationship between reclusive Welsh Peter, and Ben, the foundling sheep that became his inseparable friend.
Director: Pinny Grylls, UK, 2007, 10 min.

SMILE – A Chinese family living in culturally-disparate 1980s Vancouver prepares to take a family portrait.
Director: Julia Kwan, Canada, 2008, 18 min.

THIS WILL ALL MAKE PERFECT SENSE SOMEDAY – A man imagines the kind of life he might have had with a woman he met years earlier in his youth.
Director: Long-Cuu Phan, USA, 2008, 13 min.

THE VULNERABLE ONES – A young boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo helps his handicapped once-famous father smuggle goods over the Congo-Rwanda border.
Director: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, USA & Congo, 2007, 14 min.

WET SEASON – 'Wet Season' is a stop motion animation piece about the filmmaker, who is trying to make a short film about his late father.
Director: Michael Tay, Singapore, 2007, 6 min.