No Dogs | Award Winning Historical Short Film

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Set against the backdrop of the Watsonville race riots that set central California ablaze in 1930, Filipino American Marisol seeks shelter at Carl’s diner. Neither of them can foresee where that violent night will take them, or what secrets will be revealed.
"No Dogs" is directed by Randal Kamradt / monsterswithout
Written by and Starring Georgina Tolentino / georginatolentino
co-written by Alex Fabros / fabrosalex
also starring Ian Coleman / ianrosscoleman
composer and executive producer Tangelene Bolteon @TangeeBolton / tangelenebolton
executive produced by Daniel Berhane, Ryan Bever, an Jeremy Nocon
cinematography by Frederick Duarte / freddy_duarte
camera operatior Daniel Berhane / butters986
edited by Roy Rutngamlug / royboyee
sound design by Jan Domino and Alain Le Godornes
/ jan_domino327 and / alain.godornes
AWARDS:
Chelsea Film Festival
-Petite Prix for Best Short Film
-Best Supporting Actor: Ian Coleman
-Audience Award
Twin Cities Film Fest
-Nominee: Best Short Film
Bridgeport Film Festival
-Best Actress: Georgina Tolentino
-Best Director: Randal Kamradt
Asian World Film Festival
-FilAm Creative Best Short Film
-FilAm Creative Best Director: Randal Kamradt
FACINE: Filipino Arts & Cinema International
-Gold Lead Role - Female: Georgina Tolentino
-Silver Lead Role - Male: Ian Coleman
-Particularly Noteworthy - Writing: Georgina Tolentino & Alex Fabros
-Particularly Noteworthy - Direction: Randal Kamradt
FILM FESTIVALS:
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival - World Premiere
Chelsea Film Festival - East Coast Premiere
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
Twin Cities Film Fest
The Bridgeport Film Fest
FilAm Creative Film Festival with Asian World Film Festival
FACINE: Filipino Arts & Cinema International
Las Cruces International Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Randal Kamradt
Randal is a Filipino-American writer/director of award-winning films seen at festivals worldwide. His films range from genre creature-features to historical drama, with a consistent focus on dynamic visuals and socially relevant themes.
WRITERS/ACTRESS/PRODUCER: Georgina Tolentino:
Georgina Tolentino is an American actress and filmmaker of Filipino European descent. She will be starring as Victoria Manalo Draves in a feature-film biopic about the first woman to win two gold medals in Olympic diving at the 1948 London Games.
#historical #filipino #filipinoamerican #watsonville #shorts #indiefilm

[@tomhill4003]

A truly amazing short film, with a historical instance I was totally ignorant of. THANK YOU!

[@mrk9989]

Wow I just watched this with no knowledge of what I was about to actually watch!!! I am from New Zealand and we the tribes of mother earth have similar stories to share, so much sadness and anger. These actors were great and I would love to shake their hands BRAVO

[@jkirk1626]

Mother Earth? What a hippy dippy nightmare.

[@stephaniedouglasaviewfroma9596]

A piece of history I was not aware of! I am now. This moving short led me to do some research.

[@saralynn518]

Raw and powerful. For once and for all, I wish we could have learned something from our past.

[@ozdigg9254]

Superb. Thank you. A horrible history I was ignorant of until now.

[@soliloquy_films]

Thank you for watching! We're just glad to be able to illuminate some less-known parts of history.

[@neissansaber8423]

Same here. Thanks

[@marketads1]

Thank you for a beautifully realized true story and metaphor about humanity’s circular and ancient inhumanity.

[@apistosig4173]

Well shot - wonderful lighting - sub-standard dialogue - he was unconvincing - she was wonderful.

[@cookiecazares5833]

Great short!! Alot was said/acted in a few minutes not hours. Glad it was to educate us as well!

[@irreverentjules-240]

Wow! I felt myself contracting every time he spoke, and relaxing every time she responded. Loved the ending. Bravo

[@jessegonzalez8167]

Good short film. Good acting. Great pace--never got bored. Nice to have some aknowledgement to the Filipino community. I'm a Stocktonian, but not a TRUE one. In 1964, I was born at San Joaquin General Hospital, in a little town called, French Camp, about 5 miles south of City Hall. Raised on Grant Street, I was able to enjoy downtown in the 1970's. The Cross-Town freeway, took out most of, "Little Manila." Seen The Fox sign, now The Bob Hope Theatre, really caught my attention. Also, the Stockton Record, on the table brought some nice detail to the film. All of the posters of the famous boxer, "Little Joe," have been taken down. The last standing monument is the, "Filipino Center." Thanks to all who worked on this project.

[@honestg]

Well and truly disturbing. We are totally ignorant over here (Scotland) with all that Racism crap that went on. As our famous Bard wrote "We're all Jock Tamson's Bairns". Nice acting and story - Enjoyed this educational short film 👍

[@gaylandbarney2231]

well , it's been a bit over dramatized and focused on here....yes , there was racism here , as everywhere else in the world , but somehow it seems important to a minority here to lash us all with guilt.....it almost guarantees winning an award

[@abraxasjinx5207]

​@@gaylandbarney2231oof. I bet your family loves having you over at Thanksgiving.

[@stephaniecook2441]

Thank You! Wow. Some History I wasn't aware of even after 60 years in California. All peoples are Created equal!

[@e.l.france5136]

Oh yeah, that was excellent all the way through to a fine ending. I've subscribed and will let others know that this is what we've been looking for: human interest movies not CGI cartoons taking up the big screens.

[@VJGilboy_01_10]

Nice acting both of them thanks for sharing.

[@RankAndFileGuy]

Showing so much with so little. It was great.

[@OurTube_TheOriginal]

Great acting…great writing. The dialectical banter like walking amidst political landmines buried in a soil of universal human connection that sometimes provides a safe path to walk along and sometimes hides the danger beneath. I was married to someone whose parents came to US in their 20s and I never knew about that war nor the Watsonville race riots (can we please start calling them ethnic riots?). I noticed his family had no tolerance for anything negative and when something hard was brought up which was rare, such as his mother recalling her father ducking into the bushes and leaving her on the road when Japanese were shooting, they laughed. I came from tough backround in US which i too was ignoring so I also “looked only on the sunny side” but was older and changing a little bit. My family didn’t talk about the hardships the Irish suffered; i only found out later when reading Frank McCourt’s books. Overall i don’t think the Irish were treated as badly as some other ethnicities and less recently also. Nonethelesss, generational PTSD and the cycle of violence when victimized become perpetrators is saturated in so many families about which nothing is said of the roots.

[@offduty6255]

eye opener indeed!

[@krisshassebrock7518]

Loved it

[@DelightLovesMovies]

Well done. I really love a good film like that.

[@annamariesantillan9196]

Bravo for being brave and instilling fear against these bastards

[@soliloquy_films]

Thank you for watching! Yes, Marisol is very brave.

[@crabwalk7773]

👏👏👏❤❤❤❤

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[@soliloquy_films]

Thanks for subbing!

[@devd-sm2jo]

@@soliloquy_films 🥰😊

[@SharonNolfi]

Wonderful portrayal of a dark and shameful part of California history. Lovely shots within the diner.

[@roxanarosado8706]

OMG

[@mp_1231]

I hope this goes viral soon. It's a really important story.

[@ChuckSeayII]

When you hear a gun get cocked and the see it not cocked it kinda kills the mood!

[@celiajarvis3168]

Oops... I didn't notice. Overall, it was a sadly historical movie, suspenseful with excellent acting performances from both actors.

[@brianpan6453]

Excellent. Both characters well played.

[@pauldavey]

Well done. Nothing I can say that has not already been said. Superb and history repeats itself every day in every country. How sad is the human race?

[@barbaramccoy6448]

We are all God's children. Why can't we just all get along?

[@raven5ism]

Note to set designer, There was no plastic containers in the time period portrayed here.

[@jaguarreow749]

fucking excellent!

[@oikeasti_anton]

I love the music!!! The intro score is amazing

[@soliloquy_films]

Thanks! The composer, Tangelene Bolton, is terrific!

[@malgorzatazytkow6127]

Very good movie eye-opener

[@afkfromk1]

Well.....no comment needed .....

[@soliloquy_films]

Haha, thank you for commenting anyway! And thanks for watching.

[@seracessna]

My birthday 😢

[@maurawhelan3530]

Great film.

[@patriciarussell1177]

I hope Texas doesn’t do this to all the Mexicans coming over...

[@williebeamish5879]

Rumor has it some are doing exactly that from what I've read.

[@HanoverFiste-xu2ot]

Perhaps the original Texanos should had done the same to all the illegal immigrants that came in droves from the US. But they didn't.

[@notme9816]

​@@HanoverFiste-xu2otIt's sad they didn't d8 their duty.

[@JoniCarol1]

Wow, we got some messed up history.

[@Stasiaflonase]

Good old hate mongering. There’s always something bad about ‘others’.

[@ei3170]

Dang she is pretty.

[@kingsircheng4540]

I’m from China 🇨🇳

[@kylebrewer9582]

I’m a Marine stationed in Japan in the late 80’s . We took a mac flight to Subic Bay for 3 days R & R!❤ Philippines was Awesome! I got drunk and laid All Weekend!😅 and it cost about 13 American dollars!✌️❤️

[@nuioo6643]

Proud you exploited poor women? 🤢🤢🤢

[@notme9816]

This is so wrong for all the wrong reasons.

[@CalTC_]

Luck of the Irish! Of course we are not suppose to see anything but the woman here. Are we suppose to think her gun didn't fire or was unloaded? Dude is flat as cardboard and probably not an Irish actor. USA government and farmers looking for lowest wage labor are the elephants in the room?

[@abraxasjinx5207]

That male actor is just awful. At acting I mean. His character is supposed to be objectionable, but his acting is so much worse.

[@bonitacurtis8053]

Why on earth would you show a film like this on You Tube. It is hatwful and abusive in a world where people should try harder to get along. The re are people who would feed on hate. I was a target of hate, awful film.

[@VeretenoVids]

Because some people have no idea about the things that have happened in the past and caused immense harm. People need to know each other's history to truly understand and move forward. Just saying "try harder to get along" brushes past all the past traumas that have shaped what our society looks like today. We cannot move past hate until everyone sees and understand what hate really does to people.

[@melmo5218]

tired stuff. racism, yeah, get it. work on it a bit harder. drive the wedge deeper while pretending to do otherwise.

[@gusmonster59]

Your comment shows your ignorance. This isn't just about racism, it's about history, humanity and we, as humans, tend to treat those we don't, and sometimes refuse, to understand. Unfortunately, this still goes on today. People of certain races are subjected to hatred, but when they strike or protest, they are the 'bad guys'. So perhaps open your eyes and see where you, yourself fit in to the picture rather than just complaining about a video you didn't even have to watch.

[@dmorfeus3910]

..... ...now you have all kind of dogs ( weirdly enough they still aren't allowed ) even the ones that consider themselves as such, and all kinds of filipino, malaezian, coreean.. all kinds.. everywhere.. ... wonderful !!! .......

[@000aleph]

No objections to this film. And yet, how ironic is it that not a single filmmaker or platform dares deal with the rampant anti-white racism we have today.

[@jeanzeeb7495]

Really? Have you looked at virtually every position of power and wealth in this country? White. Male. Racism is about enforcing a system of power in which an advantaged majority enforces it's dominance over a disadvantaged minority. That simply isn't happening in America today. Virtually all wealth and power is in the hands of whites, especially wealthy whites.

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[@Boatperson]

My god America has a dreadful racist history………I never knew about this though - just shameful!

[@Stasiaflonase]

Good old hate mongering. There’s always something bad about ‘others’.