Screening
Open Category Finalist
Palace
Chan Cheong-wai Marcus
Col / 24’14” / In English with Chinese and English subtitles
William Stack’s leap to stardom at the age of eight was followed by a string of commercial and film and television shows. But soon, it all caught up with him. Parties, drugs, arrests. It did not take long before he was in and out of rehab. Tonight we will talk to him about his meteoric rise to fame, his shocking fall from grace, and what the future may hold.
wanted to explore how exploitation often forms an integral part of interpersonal relationships and the irony behind the victims’ tendency to spread the damage “forward” as opposed to paying it “back” to their abusers.
