Asian-American International Film Festival ‘05

BLUE HOUR

Sunday, July 31 at 7:00pm

Francisco Aliwalas in creating this film was a one-man production crew: he wrote the script, then shot and edited the film guerrilla style on Manhattan streets on a micro budget of $1000. Oh yes, he composed the music score for Blue Hour. This stunning high-tech, remarkably low budget sci-fi neo-noir thriller from Filipino-American filmmaker Francisco Aliwalas tracks the daunting experience of John (Arthur Lacuna), who comes to New York to visit his old friend Catfish (Orlando Peabody). Catfish, threatened by intimidating gangsters, asks John to submit to medical experiments conducted by a mysterious Orwellian organization known as The Foundation. Put to sleep by a potion, he wakes up three days later with all memories erased. As he tries to solve the mystery of what happened to him, flashes of memory haunt him as he struggles to find out who he can and cannot trust.

(US | 2004 | 79min | dir. Francisco Aliwalas)