The DisOrient Asian American Film Festival is screening “Baby” as its Centerpiece film. Last year the film was the Official Selection the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Los Angeles VC Film Festival, Chicago Asian American Showcase, and the San Diego Asian Film Festival. At the Los Angeles VC Film Festival, the film also won the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE BEST EMERGING ACTOR: DAVID HUYNH and SPECIAL JURY PRIZE BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE: BABY. If you are in the Eugene, Oregon area, check out this film.

Movie Synopsis

Baby is the tragic tale of an Asian youth trapped in the world of East Los Angeles gang life. Our story winds through the streets of Monterey Park and Alhambra and the seedy, dead end worlds of hostess bars, pool halls and drug dens.

Baby is a motherless, poverty stricken teenager with only an alcoholic father left to raise him. Things get worse when he gets mixed up with a pack of older gangsters who live next door. At the age of eleven he gets convicted of manslaughter and spends the next six years in Juvenile Hall.

Once released from prison, Baby struggles to fit into a society that rejects him. He soon finds his way back to a lifestyle of drugs, murder and street gangs. A lost love and a best friend are his last hopes to turn his life around before it is too late.

Watch the “Baby” trailer