Ghosts Of The Heartland  (80m, USA)
Directed by: Allen Blumberg
Narrative Feature - World Premiere

Synopsis
It's 1952, the McCarthy era is at its peak and big city reporter, Roland Lu,

is returning to his hometown of Millville. When Roland arrives in town he finds

that the Chinese community is experiencing persecution similar to the early

stages of the Jewish experience in 1930's Germany. Roland fears that his old

nemesis, McCarthyite thug, Frank Dugan is behind a plot to steal land from the

Chinese., the way he did twenty years earlier from native Americans.
Roland suffers from a bad case of racial self-hatred. His old girlfriend Liz, fears

he will sell out the Chinese to write his big story, to win the Pulitzer, so he can be

accepted into white society.
Either way, Roland will have to take on Frank Dugan...