Still Voices Short Film Festival

Manila is Full of Men Named Boy

Manila, July 7, 2009. As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays throughout the country despite terrorist attacks in the south, an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke to impress his father. However, when the patriarch and his friends embrace the new child as one of their own, the question must be asked: what determines who is more valuable of attention?

Director Bio

Andrew Stephen Lee, b. September 29, 1988 in San Francisco, California. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University, Stephen assisted Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg for three years. He then became an MFA Candidate at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program and graduated in 2018 with his thesis playing at the 75th Venice Film Festival.