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The Best Of New Media Film Festival Los Angeles Screening Series

6:30PM –Networking | Screening Begins at 7PM | December 19, 2011

FEATURE WINNER –

Quirk of Fate

2011| Germany | 45:00 | Dir. Marco J. Riedl

Luke Hallow has been wrongly serving a long-term sentence. He killed a young man, who threatened his pregnant wife Eve with a gun, in self-defense. Nine years later, during a visit in jail, his daughter Noel breaks down unexpectedly. The doctor’s conclusion: "If Noel doesn’t get a donor heart soon, she’ll die.“

Luke begins a battle against a socially discriminating and morally reprehensible health care system, which forces him to pay a $100,000 cash advance to get Noel placed on the vital recipient list for donor organs. The fees for the operation and the follow-up treatment add up to $300,000, a sum nowhere near covered by his wife’s insurance.

Even after he is released from prison, Luke is stuck with his back up against the wall. As a caring father he needs to get hold of the money, even if that means risking his freedom. Meanwhile, Eve takes out a $300,000 life insurance policy in her name. Luke realizes that if he went back to jail and anything were to happen to his wife his daughter would be left all alone.  Out of options and losing hope, it appears that only a miracle can save their daughter.