Vilcek Foundation

Director: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Screenwriter: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Producer: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, Derrick Tseng
Cinematographer: Sam Chase
Cast: Christina Chang, Tina Chen, Edison Chen, Kelly Hu, Ivan Shaw, Roger Rees

Synopsis: At thirty-four, Vanessa is still her large and boisterous family’s go-to girl, with a threadbare excuse of a life of her own. Her love life begins to blossom when she runs into Dwayne, an old friend (Ivan Shaw). Dwayne is the almost perfect guy, who just might be perfect for her; but as those sparks fly, her family starts to go up in flames. Her surf-bum brother (Edison Chen) has gone AWOL; and her overanalyzing, overintellectual mother (Tina Chen) has barred her father (Roger Rees) from their home, sending him into his own midlife crisis.

They all need Vanessa, all the time, to fix all their problems, much to the consternation of Dwayne, who’s beginning to get fed up with the whole deal. Trapped within one family crisis after another, Vanessa has decisions to make: be the family’s savior, or carve out some “me-time“ and concentrate on possibly the best thing to happen to her in her entire adult life! ­

—Abraham Ferrer