Attend Film Prize in-person October 16-17th or watch online starting October 15th, watch all 20 short films, and then you can vote for the grand prize winner of $50,000 cash. Plus you can vote for the best acting performance category!
Every year, on the eve of the 1973 Up-stairs Lounge fire in New Orleans that Jason survived and his lover did not, he returns to the house where Ronald, who never left, still waits to say goodbye all over again.
Produced by Kai Tan, Stevie Lynn Cavalier, Jeff Van Gerwen
Starring Nicholas Bordelon, Kai Tan, Valerie Perkins
Cinematography by Jeff Van Gerwen
Sound by Charlie Mascagni
Edited by Jeff Van Gerwen
Music by C. Leonard Raybon
Kai Tan is a Chinese Malaysian Australian writer-director-actor based in New Orleans. After two decades in corporate finance, marketing and entrepreneurship across Sydney, London and Malaysia, he made New Orleans home and turned his love of storytelling into filmmaking telling the untold Asian American stories that have long been invisible and marginalized. In the years since honing his craft in writing, acting, producing and directing, he has developed a voice that weaves documentary truth with artistic vision with commitment in storytelling that bridges across cultures to reach a global audience. His debut short, On the Seventh Day, a meditation-horror social justice film, won the Judges Founder’s Circle Award at the Louisiana Film Prize and continues on the international festival circuit.
