Director Karla Murthy and Composer Bobak Lotfipour Attending

Filmmaker Karla Murthy’s father left his small village in India and spent years looking for work, before coming to Texas to raise a family. Her father married a woman from the Philippines, and Murthy herself lives in New York and has a family herself–it sounds like the perfect summation of the American Dream. Using recordings of late night calls with her dad while working at a gas station, and home movies, Murthy crafts a loving portrait of her father, the challenges of being an immigrant and a child-of-immigrants, and a clear-eyed examination of the American Dream.