Type A (film)
Nominee, Bridgeport Film Festival: Best Comedy, Best Lockdown Project, Best Female Actor in a Comedy (Hui-Shan Yong and Molly Powers Gallagher)
Interview on WMVY Martha’s Vineyard Radio
a new short film
produced by Leap the Room
Written by: Molly Powers Gallagher
Directed and Edited by: Emily Hartford
Music and Sound by: Ned Hartford
Colored by: Phoebe Titus
Featuring:
Hui-Shan Yong, Molly Powers Gallagher, Alisha Spielmann, Ned Hartford, and Emily Hartford
Type A has appeared in the Woods Hole Film Festival, Adirondack Film Festival, NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, Kansas City Film Festival, Twin Cities Film Fest, and Bridgeport Film Festival. It’s also included in the Palm Springs Film Market Video Library.
Hui-Shan & Molly live parallel lives as actors in New York City, but couldn't be more different. From their headshots, they are seemingly the same "type." But when that type has no definition except the stereotypical Asian with a Capital A, will they ever be seen as more than Type A?
Type A is a snapshot of two women's friendship and showbiz hustle, set amidst the isolation of pandemic-2020. Actors Hui-Shan and Molly crack wry jokes over the absurdities of the industry, via virtual spa nights and ramen lunches. On their own, they navigate hope, rejections, microaggressions, and the torture of the Zoom audition. Filmed entirely remotely in fall 2020, Type A explores how two women with individual and multi-layered Asian identities assert themselves, in a world that continually tries to flatten them into a single image. And how their friendship with each other becomes an anchor, in an uncertain time.