
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...