Tragedy and Triumph At Pacific Rim Film Festival

Santa Cruz native Sasha Friedlander directed 'Where Heaven Meets Hell.'

Only a handful of the selections in this year’s Pacific Rim Film Festival are by filmmakers with local roots, and perhaps it’s merely coincidence that they are among the best. But what’s uncanny is the synchronicity in play among three of them—Where Heaven Meets Hell, The Power of Two and Playing With Fire. In separate interviews, the people behind the films sometimes even echo each other when they speak about how they achieved these three very different and yet strangely connected, truly compelling portraits.

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