Triple 8 Palace

"A Chinese girl owes a staggering smuggling debt to the Snakeheads — and the sweatshop pays three cents a piece. But there’s another way. The gangs. Bodywork. And Full Service at two hundred an hour."

Directed byAlexander Ku. Winner of NYU’s Adam Balsano Award for Social Significance,Triple 8 Palaceis an Official Selection of The Cannes Film Festival and of the famed Beijing Academy Film Festival.

InTriple 8 Palace, Qian Yi stars as a girl struggling to survive in a vibrant, destructive Chinese-American sub-culture fragmented by ambition and desire.

2007 / 30 minutes / color / 1.85:1 aspect ratio

TRIPLE 8 PALACE
Qian Yi • Steven Chan • Ting Zhang • Carl Ka-Ho Li • with Rob Yang • Produced by Sylvia Lloses • Rebecca Pietri • Rafael del Toro • Cinematography Michelle McCabe • Editor Adrienne Haspel • Sound Chris Arbisi • Written and Directed by Alexander Ku

VENUES

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – Official Selection
NYU FIRST RUN FILM FESTIVAL - Adam Balsano Award for Social Significance
BEIJING ACADEMY FILM FESTIVAL – Official Selection

Photo credit: Michelle McCabe.