A coming-of-age story set in 1980's rural America where a mixed Asian boy navigates his way through love in a white world.
IS A SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SHORT FILM FROM AWARD-WINNING WRITER-DIRECTOR LEVI WILSON AND PRODUCED BY LISA HAMMER OF VENTURE BROS FAME. LUKE IS MIXED ASIAN-AMERICAN, AND EMMA IS WHITE, AND THEY LIVE IN 1986 SMALL TOWN AMERICA. THEY HAVE AN INCIDENTAL MEETING IN THE PARKING LOT OF A LOCAL MINI MART WHILE WAITING FOR LUKE’S THAI MOTHER AND EMMA’S WHITE AMERICAN FATHER TO SHOP. IT’S CLEAR THEY BOTH HAVE CRUSHES ON EACH OTHER, BUT THEY PROCEED WITH CAUTION AS THEY HAVE AN INNATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMMUNITY ‘S PREJUDICES REFLECTED BY THEIR PARENTS’ EXTREMELY AWKWARD INTERACTION INSIDE.
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"From writer director Levi Wilson comes Luke and Emma and a Gas Station on Franklin Ave..." |
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