Written and Directed by Liao Jiekai
Assistant Producer: May Shek
Production Assistants: Bryan Bankovich, Julia Zinn, Murad Yunus, Lee Mi Sa, Yoon Ah Yim

Key Cast: Anthony Joseph Rosati, Mike Hwang, Bryan Bankovich


Sypnosis:

Where is the Paradise? It is somewhere within and someplace beyond.


Director's Statement:

I arrived in America in the fall of 2005 to commence my studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I remembered walking past the same homeless people everyday on my routin walk to school - the same faces, the same eyes, the same posture, the same words, and the same rejection. A self-detest builds up over time, a helplessness transferred from the gaze of these people. The result is the conception of "Paradise", based on a simple story of how a man, stabbed, robbed and left to die, was helplessly stripped of his clothes and belongings from the strangers that walked past him. THe fallen world mirrors the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah from the old testament, the inner hearts of man dark and sinful.
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