Screening Time: Sunday, May 4, 2:00 PM, Charles Theatre 2

Director: Greg Pak
Cast: Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Wai Ching Ho, Greg Pak

Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 85 minutes
Format: 35mm

Four stories about love, death, family… and robots. In “My Robot Baby”, a couple must care for a robot baby before adopting a human child. When the husband leaves on business, the mother must confront her fears of the machine and of motherhood itself. In “The Robot Fixer”, a mother tries to connect with her dying son by completing his toy robot collection. In “Machine Love”, an office worker android (The Sprout G9 iPerson) learns that he, too, needs love; and in “Clay” an old sculptor must choose between natural death and digital immortality. Director Greg Pak creatively and effectively explores the relationship between emotion and technology, with a mostly Asian-American cast, science fiction sensibilities, and an award-winning animated opening credit sequence by Daniel M. Kanemoto. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival and a Special Jury Award for Emotional Truth at the Florida Film Festival.

--Skizz Cyzyk

Presented By: Greg Pak

Greg Pak studied political science at Yale University, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and film production at the NYU graduate film program. His film Fighting Grandpa has won twenty prizes, including a Student Academy Award, and has played in over fifty film festivals. His comic shorts, Asian Pride Porn and All Amateur Ecstasy are among the most viewed films at Atomfilms.com, while his other shorts, Mouse, Po Mo Knock Knock, and The Penny Marshall Project have won awards and screened in dozens of film festivals around the world. Greg edits FilmHelp.com and AsianAmericanFilm.com, and was the cinematographer for the Academy Award winning short documentary, The Personals.