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The drama America’s Family had a strong showing at the 25th annual Dances with Films festival in Los Angeles, claiming the Grand Jury Award for Features as well as the Audience Award for Competition Features when the fest wrapped on Sunday.

The film from writer-director Anike L. Tourse watches as the Diaz family home is raided by Ice on Thanksgiving, with mother Marisol (Tourse) being put in detention, son Koke (Ricardo Cisneros) being deported and father Jorge (Mauricio Mendoza) fleeing for protective sanctuary. Marisol and Jorge’s two American-born children—young attorney Emiliano (Emmanuel López Alonso) and his disabled teen sister Valentina (Jailene Arias)—then scramble to reunite the family as their parents and brother fight to get home.

Dwf is a festival celebrating the best of the best in independent film, which is based at the Tcl Chinese Theatre. It ran this year from June 9-19. Closing out...

Incorporating a universal and visceral human experience into a film’s story that also highlights the unique perspective of immigrants in their new country can often inspire a commanding emotional response from the audience. That’s certainly the case with the new romantic crime thriller, ‘Baby, Don’t Cry,’ which also gives an enthralling depth to the psychological […]

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Baby, Don't Cry

Baby (Zita Bai) is a Chinese immigrant with a troubled home life, living on the outskirts of Seattle. Fox (Vas Provatakis) is a young delinquent who steals from her only to be charmed by her fighting spirit. Their passionate affair turns everything upside down. Screening as part of 2021’s Fantasia International Film Festival, Baby, Don’t Cry! is a small but impactful film which presents an outsider’s view of US culture and charts a young woman’s sexual and spiritual journey into adulthood.

Zita, who wrote the film herself – it was directed by Jesse Dvorak – agreed to meet shortly before the festival to talk about the film. Her co-star Vas and producer Qiyu Zhou joined us, and I began by asking Zita about the roots of the story.

“I think that goes back to a lot of how I was growing up in America as an immigrant,...

Hot on the heels of today's final wave announcement for Fantasia we have an exclusive clip to share with you from one of those films, the crime thriller Baby Don't Cry. Check it out down below, with a small selection of stills as well.    Baby, a withdrawn and sensitive 17-year-old Chinese immigrant from a troubled home, is living in the outskirts of Seattle. One day, she meets a 20-year-old delinquent named Fox. Together they embark on a twisted journey to escape their hopeless fate.   Jesse Dvorak directs a script by actress and filmmaker Zita Bai, who produced with Zeron Zhao and Qiyu Zhou, and stars in the film alongside Vas Provatakis.   Baby Don't Cry will have its world premiere during the Fantasia...

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