Asian American Film: Minute Movies

Robot Stories - trailer

01.16 - Posted by Editor

"Robot Stories" trailer
3 mb, 1 1/2 minutes, 2004
Written and directed by Greg Pak
Starring Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Wai Ching Ho, and Greg Pak

Synopsis

Winner of over 30 awards, "Robot Stories" is science fiction from the heart, four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers, and digital immortality.

Filmmaker Bio

Greg Pak is an award-winning writer and director whose first feature film, "Robot Stories," starring Tamlyn Tomita and Sab Shimono, has won over 23 awards, including the Best Screenplay Award at the 2002 Hamptons International Film Festival and the Special Jury Award for Emotional Truth at the Florida Film Festival. Greg's feature screenplay "Rio Chino" won the Pipedream Screenwriting Award at the 2002 IFP Market and a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship in 2003. His shorts, including "Fighting Grandpa," "Asian Pride Porn," and "Mouse," have screened around the world. He runs the websites AsianAmericanFilm.com and FilmHelp.com.

Contact

Greg Pak "Robot Stories" website
www.gregpak.com

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Greg:
I'm gonna comment on the film itself, since I saw it at the VC Film Fest. I remember it came out around the time Spielberg's (and sometimes Kubrick's) film A.I. and this was a much, MUCH superior film in terms of its subject matter (robots and human emotions) acting, storytelling. I was hoping all the disparate stories would be integrated more as a whole -- the different characters from one story overlapping into another, ala Pulp Fiction -- but it was well done regardless.

Posted by: Harry Kintama on October 21, 2005 04:05 PM