Athens International Film Festival
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Take Out

28/9/2015, 21:00,Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος

Ming Ding only has one day to pay back the loan shark who smuggled him illegally into the US. The urgency of DIY cinema turns the streets of New York into an inescapable nightmare, even on a shoestring budget.

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Ming Ding who arrived in New York illegally without papers, works as a delivery boy in a restaurant on the Upper side Manhattan in order to financially support the family he left behind in China. However, he is running late in paying off the debt to the smuggler who brought him in the USA. One morning, the latter’s bodyguards give him a deadline of a few hours to pay his debt.
«Take Out» focuses on the events of a determining day in the hero’s life and follows him on a race towards regaining part of his freedom and dignity. Going after double the tips he earns in an ordinary evening, Ming Ding plows the streets and neighborhoods of a city that reminds nothing from the radiant, lively and welcoming New York of the big screen. With a tiny budget but smoldering realism, Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou reveal through a documentaristic directness the cruel routine of those claiming uninvited a place under the American sun.

Filmmaker in attendance


Take Out/Διανομή Κατ' Οίκον- trailer from NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Directors
Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Sean Baker
Μοντάζ / Editor
Sean Baker
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu
Wang-Thye Lee, Justin Wan

ΗΠΑ / USA
2004
Εγχρωμο / Color
DigiBeta
87'
Αγγλικά, Μανδαρίνικα / English, Mandarin

 



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