Directed by:
Kulap VilaysackScreenplay:
Kulap VilaysackComposer:
Steve JablonskyCast:
Kulap Vilaysack, Scott Aukerman, Casey Wilson, June Diane Raphael, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Sarah Silverman, Howard KremerVOD (1)
Plots(1)
All superheroes have origin stories. This is Kulap Vilaysack’s. One night when she was 14, a blow-up at home led to the revelation that the man she thought was her biological father was not. There was another man, somebody from her mother’s past, who once helped raise Kulap, but then vanished. Coping with that revelation was one thing. Coming to grips with why everyone - especially her mother - kept it from her was just as torturous. To disentangle the secrets, as well as the decade-long emotional paralysis between mother and daughter, Kulap embarks on a quest for answers. Kulap is an able storyteller and a natural screen presence, her face expresses the elation and befuddlement that comes with meeting a father and discovering family she never knew existed. Kulap’s river of recovery, which takes her from Minnesota and to the Mekong, traces a history that is personal but also spotlights the reality of refugee marriages and the relationship between the second generation, its grief, and that shattering reality. (CAAMFest)
(more)Cast
Kulap Vilaysack
USA
Best movies:
I Love You, Man (2009)
Welcome to Me (2014)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Scott Aukerman
USA
Best movies:
Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Run Ronnie Run (2002)
Casey Wilson
USA
Best movies:
Gone Girl (2014)
Why Him? (2016)
Julie & Julia (2009)
June Diane Raphael
USA
Best movies:
Zodiac (2007)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
USA
Best movies:
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Masterminds (2016)
Godmothered (2020)
Sarah Silverman
USA
Best movies:
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) (video compilation)
Don't Look Up (2021)
Howard Kremer
USA
Best movies:
Man on the Moon (1999)
Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Uncle Sam (1996)