Genre
Synopsis
Gena Park, an Asian American academic super-star, has discovered a novel gene which may be harnessed someday to prevent tumor formation in cancer patients. In the final throes of her doctoral program, she ambitiously schedules her defense in time to be eligible for a coveted research position, but hits a crisis of faith after troubling data emerges and her advisor demands she re-evaluate her methods. After becoming a Resident Advisor at an offbeat undergraduate dorm, Gena strikes up a friendship with Howard Hamid Mabrook, a deeply philosophical physics major, who helps her navigate the dorm’s counterculture ways. Gena embarks on a journey to help Howard with his struggle with depression and in the process rediscovers her joy for science.
Bio
The daughter of Korean immigrants, Alice left her hometown Ovilla, Texas to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While immersed in the world of science, biotech, and the dot-com era, she began to write and make films. Alice’s short film, ANA’S TIME premiered at the 2008 Atlanta Film Festival and has also been seen at the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Anthology Film Archives, NYC. In 2008, she founded rustrainfilms with a mission to create preternatural films inspired by places and environments either real or metaphorical. Alice most recently wrote and directed the short film, POISONBERRY, with funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council NYSCA, DCA regrant programs and the Jerome Foundation. She is currently in development on a feature film titled THE PLAINS OF ARNING.
Credits
Creative Producer - Albert Chan
Cinematographer - AJ Strauman-Scott
