SHORTS: Thicker Than Water

Name: SHORTS: Thicker Than Water
Start: 2023-08-02
End: 2023-08-13
Location: Clapp (formerly Lillie) Auditorium

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw

Baseball With Dad, Black Maria, Daughter of the Sea, Mandarins, Wok Hei

Presented in Multiple Parts

A misguided father forces his unwilling son to spend a day with him learning to play the family pastime of bas...

15 min | Cody McHan

After moving away from her childhood home on the remote island of Marado, South Korea, Jaeyoun finds herself p...

18 min | Nancy Kwon, Nicole Gormley | United States | Korean | English

Estranged black sheep Olivia Chu reunites with her family by crashing her mother’s funeral. Unprepared but d...

14 min | Chelsie Pennello

An Asian-Canadian mother of two restores a rusty family wok, and in so doing reconnects with her cultural root...

11 min | Joel Salaysay | Canada

Black Maria is a matriarchal story of brotherhood and bloodshed, a uniquely American tale of a multicultural c...

31 min | Marcus W. Albino

RUN TIME: 89 Minutes