Pan
90 minutes, 2006
Sun. Oct 8, 8:00PM, Rafael
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Friendship between a homeless man and a middle-class child forces both to re-examine their lives and places in society. The moral leader of a homeless encampment, Pan struggles to provide for his group. Bobby, a fatherless youngster, naturally gravitates toward this leader, but the boy’s presence soon challenges the encampment's way of life. Rob Nilsson (Need, MVFF 2005; SAMT, MVFF 2004; Attitude, MVFF 2003) doesn’t settle for easy answers or shy away from complexity in his storytelling. Continuing to rely on the Tenderloin Y Group, a company of homeless actors, this seventh installment in Nilsson’s 9@Night series tackles heavyweight issues of all kinds with equal fervor, from prostitution and alcohol abuse to the meaning of art. Alternately euphoric and profoundly sobering, Pan is the ultimate odyssey, not only into the grim realities of the Bay Area’s destitute, but into the human constitution of two friends from separate worlds. — I. Tovbis
Director: Rob Nilsson
Producer: Rob Nilsson, Chikara Motomura
Screenwriter: Rob Nilsson
Cinematographer: Chikara Motomura
Editor: Michael Edo Keane
Cast: Kieron McCartney, Kara McCartney, Nighttrain Schickele, Mantra Plonsy, Kevin Woodruff, Deniz Demirer
Print Source:
Citizen Cinema
1418 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA, 94710
Tel: 408.836.9515
Email: ciro1@pacbell.net
