My Dinner With Victor
Best Short Film
Jimmy still has a crush on his childhood best friend Victor. When the two finally meet after a long absence, a cultural mix-up leads to hilarious -- and deadly -- consequences.
Director Biography - Andrew Chiu
Andrew Chiu is an award-winning filmmaker with a Bronze Prize from Creative Pool. His film BREATHE won 4 awards, including the People's Choice for Best Short at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, and was shortlisted for the Canadian Screen Awards. His work has been nominated by Shots (UK), Webbys, and Shorty Awards, and his short ROMANTIC ROUSE won multiple Audience Awards. A Producer on Elvis Deane's THE THOUGHT OF YOU which premiered at BLOOD IN THE SNOW, Andrew's film BREATH ANEW premiered at Cinémathèque Québécoise and is distributed worldwide on SVOD. Andrew was chosen for Netflix-Banff DOV, Warner Bros Showrunner Bootcamp, and Emerging 20 by Reelworld. He's alumni of Reykjavik, BiFan Fantastic Film School, and RESO's inaugural ETAP program working with Producer Janice Chua (Crazy Rich Asians). Andrew has served on juries for Yorkton Film Festival & UK Production Music Awards.
Director Statement
The film is a comedy/horror about two childhood best friends who reunite after a long absence, but a cultural mix-up leads to hilarious – and deadly – consequences. Its brisk 9 minutes is my cheeky genre-bending spin on being born in the East, raised in the West, and the funny cultural misunderstandings that can happen in between.
