Immersive and Experimental Theater, In collaboration with Angry Fish Theater
At first glance, The Waiting Room is a clerical space frozen in time. It features an outdated electronic system calling numbers and a silent warden distributing mysterious packages to ten waiting individuals. Yet it’s only so on the surface. Behind each story is a powerful AI and a story related to it, that will make you reflect on your values and the state of humanity in the context of progress. Technology heightens our mundane environments and prompts us to think of who we are in this moment of history, in this moment of waiting... The waiting experience changes us. It gives us opportunities to experience self-reflection, patience, dependency, boredom, frustration and bond with others over seemingly simple interactions.
Once stepping into The Waiting Room, you won't walk out the same person.
Eva's Gabriel (Short)
Winner: Best Director, Best Short, Best Acting Ensemble
In collaboration with Real Reel Productions
A woman is arrested for protesting and put under house arrest in an apartment controlled by the government. She eventually accepts her fate and earnestly waits for the day of her release when she unexpectedly develops a relationship with a fellow prisoner next door, Gabriel. Although they have not seen each other, the relationship grows from their conversations through Eva’s bedroom wall.
With it's success, this short is now in development as a Feature film.
By Vision Z Productions (/www.visionzproductions.com)
Directed and Written by: Zilong Zee
The Last Act follows Jacqueline, an oversized, struggling musical theater
actress living in the hustle and bustle of NYC. After enduring countless rejections and
humiliations, Jacqueline’s frustrations reach a breaking point when a casting director
cruelly insults her at an audition.
In a desperate spiral, Jacqueline kidnaps Andrew, a pretentious producer, and drags
him to a basement to force him to confront the industry’s callousness. However, the
lines between reality and Jacqueline’s performance blur as it’s revealed that the entire situation may be part of a twisted film production.
With sharp dark humor and a suspenseful edge, The Last Act explores the relentless
pursuit of success, the weight of societal expectations, and one woman’s descent into
madness as she fights to have her final moment in the spotlight.