Tagalog/English film screening @ Asian American Int Film Fest

“The Pleasure of Being Served” a short film is screening at the 40th Asian American International Film Festival. This deceptively simple, symbolism-filled story is about a life of an undocumented immigrant living and working in the fringes of society and the unexpected moral dilemma she is encountering.

SYNOPSISROSA, an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines is a single mother trying to save enough money to bring her young son Richard in to the U.S. She works for HUDSON, a rich, young American as a domestic worker. Part of her job is to juggle logistics between his two girlfriends LYNN, a fellow Filipina, and JEN an American who don’t know about each other and visit him on alternating weekends. Having befriended the girls, Rosa becomes morally conflicted and must soon choose between enabling Hudson with his womanizing or accept the generous pay he offers, money that she badly needs.