Nikoleta Morales says....: "Shortcomings" - Sundance Film Festival 2023

Monday, January 23, 2023

"Shortcomings" - Sundance Film Festival 2023

Photo Credit: Sundance.org

This year's Sundance Film Festival held in-person at Park City, Utah, had a big comeback after two years of online presence due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There was a variety of great films to choose from and I chose the film "Shortcomings," which was an official selection of the U.S Dramatic Competition section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. This was also the first Sundance year for actor/director Randall Park. The film also received an emotional standing ovation from the audience.

Short synopsis:

Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an art-house movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blond women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend, Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.

The cast:

Randall Park (Director/Producer), Adrian Tomine (Writer), Justin H. Min (Cast), Sherry Cola (Cast), Ally Maki (Cast), Debby Ryan (Cast), Tim Simons (Cast), Margot Hand (Producer), Hieu Ho (Producer), Jennifer Berman (Producer), Howard Cohen (Producer), Eric d’Arbeloff (Producer), Michael Golamco (Producer), Michael Bloom (Producer), Ryan Heller (Producer), Ryan Paine (Producer), Lia Buman (Producer), Neil Shah (Producer), Max Silva (Producer), Gene Back (Composer), Robert Nassau (Editor), Santiago Gonzalez (Director of Photography), Ava Yuriko Hama (Costume Designer), Nicole Abellera (Casting Director), Bill Boes (Production Designer)

I was able to talk to a few of the cast members at the red carpet event held on Sunday, January 22 at the Eccles Theater.