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2016 Black Maria Film Festival Program

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The Loyalist<br />

Narrative<br />

by Minji Kang<br />

Studio City, CA. 20 min.<br />

A North Korean general visits his<br />

talented daughter at a prestigious<br />

Swiss school to test her loyalty to<br />

her motherland. An outstanding<br />

singer with a promising future,<br />

she dreams of studying in America.<br />

But her dream will cost her father his life if she doesn’t<br />

return to North Korea. This political drama unveils the complexity<br />

of patriarchy, tradition and honor in a family.<br />

The Third Dad<br />

Documentary<br />

by Theresa Moerman Ib<br />

Glasgow, Scotland, UK. 11 min.<br />

At the time of Cees Moerman’s<br />

death, his only daughter<br />

had not seen him for 15<br />

years. In her twenties, she had<br />

asked him to stop drinking.<br />

When he told her he couldn’t,<br />

she cut off contact completely.<br />

Now, ten years after breaking all ties, and seven years after<br />

his death, she sets out to find his grave.<br />

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