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Miss D

Country: USA, Language: English, 17 mins

  • Director: Stefan Blomquist
  • Writer: Stefan Blomquist
  • Producer: Mai Arakida Izsak

CGiii Comment

When you have the inability to direct comedy - avoid it like the plague.

The first half is played for laughs via a Chinese neighbour...unfortunately, those laughs failed to materialise...due, in part to some duff editing...but, in whole, to the direction - timing, darling - it's everything!

The second half...falls flat.

And, the weak performances don't help either.


Watch...

Miss D from Oliver Rush on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

The film opens on the countdown on the eve of New Year's, 1995. Miss D, a modest transvestite slinks home to her studio in Chinatown as the day breaks. She lets her answering machine play as she recomposes and recovers from the night before. D is startled upon hearing a voice message from her ex-lover Gina and causes commotion. Enter Ms. Ling, D's Chinese neighbor and landlady. Ling agrees to offset D's rent in exchange for herbs and consoles D as they unwind together in an empty bath. As Ling warns D of her ex's selfish ways, the phone rings. Gina is in town. D must decide whether to fall back or break free of the destructive pattern.

Cast & Characters

Lori Tan Chinn as Mrs. Ling;
Homa Hynes as Waitress;
Meghan E. Jones as Club Kid;
Eugene Martin as Cab Driver;
Octavia McKinney as Veronica Green;
Kojenwa Moitt as Club Kid;
Jamie Neumann as Jack;
Scott Speiser as Miss D;
Zuzana Stivinova as Gina