Sundance Institute

Institute History

2015 Sundance Film Festival
2015 Sundance Film Festival — Hong Kong Selects
2015 Film Fund Grant

Description

In a metropolis in the near future, Gwen Koh, a beautiful woman full of poise and grace, works as the spokesperson for the Center for Advanced Health and Living, a company that offers a radical new technology allowing people to overcome their natural disadvantages and begin life anew. But when a shift in company priorities threatens her job and her family, will Gwen undergo the procedure herself?

Jennifer Phang returns to the Sundance Film Festival (Half-Life played in 2008) with this fresh, soulful, and sophisticated science fiction that elegantly engages the future of our society, its economies, values, and gender disparity. A haunting and inventive tale that glistens at its center with a penetrating performance by Jacqueline Kim, Advantageous spins an intriguing and entirely tangible emotional fabric of a future society that powerfully resonates with how we live in our world today. —S.F.

— Shari Frilot

Screening Details

Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition
Film Type: U.S. Narrative Feature Films
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English/French
Run Time: 97 min.

Credits

Actor
Editor
- Gena Bleir
- Sean Gillane
Producer
Composer
- Timo Chen
Screenwriter
- Jacqueline Kim
- Jennifer Phang
Director
- Jennifer Phang
Production Designer
- Aiyana Trotter
- Dara Wishingrad
Cinematographer
- Richard Wong

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