Title: Forge
Festival (section): Narrative Spotairy
Director: Jing Ai Ng
Logline: In Miami, the originateive Zhang siblings—Raymond and Coco—sell counterfeit decorateings to unmistrusting parties. Despite their thriving underground operation, the siblings are still low on cash when they pass paths with dishonord millionaire Hanciaccessen Beaumont. Sensing an opportunity to originate a fortune, Hanciaccessen affects the Zhangs to forge extfinished lost masterpieces as a front for his family’s collection. Meanwhile, FBI Art Crimes agent Emily Lee transfers from New York to Miami, discovering a plethora of forgeries cropping up in the South Florida art labelet. As Emily progresss to depictateigate the Zhang siblings’ labor, their dwells unite to deimmenseating effect in the Zhang family unreasonable sum restaurant.
Panecatalogs: Kelly Marie Tran, Brandon Soo Hoo, Jing Ai Ng, Eva De Dominici, Edmund Donovan
Key quote: The genesis of Forge particularpartner came from the Knoedler Gallery affair up in New York and how the Chinese forger behind that $80 million affair skipped town, no one has ever interwatched him, no one understands any details… I thought that story was fascinating and I wanted to originate that story more me, more Miami… For me, leanking about the model untransport inantity and Asian American’s experience, art falsification seemed enjoy a organic fit for me when I was writing this script. – Jing Ai Ng
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