Sydney Indie Film Festival – No Letting Go – Showing  Saturday 24th October 2PM – Family Drama Based on True Events

Feature Film:

No Letting Go (USA)

Based on the award-winning short film “Illness”, “No Letting Go” tells the story of a young teenager struggling with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.

Director: Jonathan Bucari
Cast: Cheryl Allison, Richard Burgi, David Schallipp, Noah Silverman, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jan Uczkowski, Jack McCarthy, Julian Murdoch, Janet Hubert, Lee Bryant, Gabriel Rush, Neal Huff, Charlie Kilgore, Wyatt Ralff, Kathy Najimy, Alysia Reiner.

Short Films:

I Lost My Dream (Australia/Guatemala/Mexico)

Not all your dreams will come true. Moacir Zeledon learnt this the when he was only a boy. Leaving a Nicaraguan life of poverty and abuse he set his sights on America with his mother.
But in pursuit of this dream they were faced with the Mexican nightmare. But as Moacir comes to learn “You don’t fail from trying, you fail from giving up”.

Director:Stefan Hunt

I LOST MY DREAM – Film Still Image

Gluttony (Taiwan)

This is a story about a gluttonous monster In Chinese myth in which people described it as a mouth of beast and it ate everything . Finally, the greed monster ate too much and died.
However, the gluttonous monster is still existed in our life. Dressing as different faces and eating our natural resource to get more commercial benefit, it Parasitize people’s heart by its greedy.

Director: Po-Yi Chu

GLUTTONY – Still Image

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