Journey is a short film, written and directed by Christine Shin. It was first released in the United States on December 10, 2004 as a part of the Hollywood DV Festival. It stars Christine Lucas, John Emmet Tracy, Cole Delaney, Cindy E. Newman, Suzanne Tsai, Teresa Tharp, and Clara Smyth.
Journey and his grandfather Marcus have to come to terms with each other's reactions to the loss when Journey's mother, Min, decides to leave Journey and his sister Cat to be looked after by their grandparents. Written by Jim Brawn
You're living it every second.
Sometimes you have to get lost... to find yourself.
The year is 1991. The Soviet Union has collapsed and Armenia is at the threshold of her independence. It has been ten years since twenty-three-year-old Eve left her homeland and emigrated to New York City with her parents. Eve struggles to pursue her passion as a photographer while waitressing at nights. However, amidst the ever continuous vitality of America, Eve yearns for stillness that will soothe her soul. Tragedy strikes, transforming her dreams into nightmares. Eve learns that in Armenia her childhood friend, Arman, has been killed. Unexpectedly she gets called on an assignment to photograph the events taking place in the Caucasus and finds herself on a journey that changes her life. Facing her past both culturally and emotionally, Eve finds herself caught up in the independence movement of Armenia and the crisis of committing to a man, whom she falls in love with. Written by J F Productions
After college, Eric Saperston bought a 1971 Volkswagen Bus, took his Golden Retriever, Jack, and set out to follow The Grateful Dead and work a ski season in Aspen. While out on the road, he called up some of the most powerful people in the world and asked them out for a cup of coffee. Written by Patrick Jones
Kishan Singh, his wife, and an only child, a son, Raj,live in India. Kishan runs his household by working as a school-teacher. They want their son to grow up well educated, and live a better life abroad. Raj studiously pursues his studies in medicine, & re-locates to in Pittsburgh, U.S.A., soon becomes establishes his practice there. He falls in love with a lovely Caucasian woman named Laura, and both get married, and soon give birth to a daughter and name her Jenny. Thereafter tragedy befalls the Singh family as Kishan's wife passes away. Alone, retired, and not having much to do in India, he decides to re-locate to U.S.A. and live with his son. He is received warmly by Laura, Raj, and Jenny. Kishan and Jenny take to each other very well, and often go for long walks in the countryside. On one such walk, Kishan and Jenny separate. Kishan is unable to locate her, and asks Raj and Laura to help him. A frantic search does get them to Jenny - but anger and acrimony have now taken over Laura, and she distrusts Kishan, and would like him to keep away from her family. Kishan does get the message and moves out to live with another East Indian named Ashok. Raj and Jenny regret this, and often miss him. Kishan and Laura do not know that they will meet again soon when Kishan is held at a popular book store for purportedly attempting to steal a book. Will this meeting change their relationship with each other? Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
When a child finds herself lost in 'the plaza', an ambiguous place isolated between heaven and earth, an old man appears to help... But it's the old man who must learn to take the final steps to freedom.
Budapest 1956. A group of Westerners try to leave the city when the the Soviets occupys the country. But the airport is closed down and they have to take a bus to the border. At the border they are stopped by red tape - and Major Surov. The reasons are sketchy, but it seems that the major is romantically interested in one of the westerners, Diana Ashmore. Written by Mattias Thuresson
You're living it every second.
Sometimes you have to get lost... to find yourself.
What happens to places when we left them? 'The journey' is about the stories that are bound to us in eternity. Childhood memories. Places, colors and sounds - things we attempt to revive. Is this possible? Can these gaps of the past be refilled with life? A young man has began the journey to search for those lost memories. He hopes to find his identity at the places where everything began, but his encounters are not what he had expected. Written by Kaya Behkalam
Jill, a blind woman who is a few months away from getting married, was adopted when she was very young. She believes that her birth-mother abandoned her due to her blindness. Despite her anger, however, she feels a strong desire to locate her birth-mother before creating her own family. Written by Anonymous
"The Journey" follows the unique adventures of Steve, a chronic video game addict, wasting his days away in a cloud of pot smoke and underachievement as a flunky at Target. In deep denial of his Latino heritage, Steve is locked into a life of mundane gratification. That is, until his long suffering girlfriend Rhona rocks his world by dumping him and leaving for an archaeological dig in Mexico. "Getting the boot" snaps Steve out of his comfort zone and sends him into a spiral of depression and anger. Trying to recover his emotional equilibrium, Steve hooks up disastrously with several ex-girlfriends before finally realizing that he's just lost the only woman he truly loves. Heeding the words of several impromptu mentors, Steve finally gets off his couch and heads off to Mexico in a spur-of-the-moment adventure to track Rhona down and win her back. However, Steve quickly finds himself lost and alone in a strange, magical country that is quite different from the one he's seen on TV. Danger, temptation and adventure are around every corner. But, most of all, it's the heartfelt encounters with the Mexican people that start to change Steve; awakening his Latino soul and changing him from a shallow slacker into a mature young man. But it's not just the challenges of the wild, open road that confront our hero. To win Rhona back, Steve must contend with "Antonio" - a mysterious rival who taunts him mercilessly on the Internet and claims to have seduced her! So, come along on "The Journey!" a heartfelt, funny, and exciting coming of age story, seen through the eyes of a likable hero discovering the man inside himself, his heritage and the real world that lies just south of his own backyard. Written by Anonymous
