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2018 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

SEARCHING

Directed by Aneesh Chaganty

Special Features / USA / 2018 / Drama / 101 mins / English

OPENING NIGHT: SEARCHING

Directors Guild of America - Theatre 1
Thursday | May 3, 2018 7:00 pm

Description

Filmmakers in attendance.

After David Kim (John Cho)’s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter’s laptop.

We are very excited to open the Festival with the Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner SEARCHING from director Aneesh Chaganty and #StarringJohnCho. This innovative film, which takes place all within a computer screen, is a unique experiment that is very outside-the-box, yet it all takes place within the “box” of a computer screen.

Stretching the parameters of genre cinema that may, on the surface, be limiting, Chaganty’s deft direction, coupled with an intense performance by Cho, showcases a new voice in Asian American and genre filmmaking, much like how Jordan Peele’s GET OUT flipped the script on horror film conventions. – Anderson Le

 

Director's Bio

Aneesh Chaganty is a 27-year- old writer/director whose two minute short film, a Google Glass spot called “Seeds” became an internet sensation after garnering more than 1 million YouTube views in 24 hours.  Following its success, Aneesh was invited to join the Google Creative Lab in New York City, where he spent two years developing, writing and directing Google commercials.

He is a recipient of the Future of Storytelling Fellowship, awarded to only five young creatives around the world “who have demonstrated a fearlessness to tell stories in unconventional ways” and whose works “will be instrumental in shaping the future of storytelling.”  SEARCHING is Aneesh’s first feature.  He quit his job to make it.

Credits

Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Writer: Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian
Producer: Timur Bekmambetov, Sev Ohanian, Adam Sidman, Natalie Qasabian
Cast: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La

Precedes

  1. Opening Night Party presented by TIGER BEER

    Events / Party / 120 mins
    Join us for the Opening Night Party on Thursday May 3rd from 9:30 - 11:30 pm after the screening of SEARCHING. FREE for badge holders and Opening Night film ticket holders.

    Preceded by: SEARCHING

Dates & Times

OPENING NIGHT: SEARCHING

Directors Guild of America - Theatre 1
Thursday | May 3, 2018 7:00 pm