Despite the fact that the Sundance Film Festival purports to cater to independent artists, there’s still a push towards established names over brand new voices.
Eli and Daniel are two Korean American brothers that run their late father’s shoe store in a predominantly African American community of Los Angeles.
“Gook rises above message-movie mediocrity,” the Hollywood Reporter noted, “enjoying its characters too much to use them as political mouthpieces.”
These two brothers strike up a unique and unlikely friendship with an 11-year-old African American girl, Kamilla.