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Festival selections & Awards:

2019 Whistler Film Festival

2019 Silicon Valley Film Festival, California

2020 Cinema on the Bayou, Louisiana ** Special Jury Award Narrative Feature

2020 Las Cruces Film Festival, New Mexico

2020 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival ** Special Jury Award for Music

2020 San Francisco IndieFest, California

2020 Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Wales ** Best Feature Film Nomination

2020 Richmond International Film Festival, Virginia

2020 Vancouver Asian Film Festival - Covid Watch Party 

2020 Bowery Film Festival, New York

2020 Directors Guild of Canada Award Nomination - Best Sound Editing

2021 Oakville Festivals of Film & Art, Ontario

THINGS I DO FOR MONEY

2019 Feature Film - Completed

88 min

Crime Thriller/Drama

A young Japanese Canadian cellist finds a big bag of money and all the woes that go along with it.

THINGS I DO FOR MONEY is about Eli and Nick Yaguchi, two Japanese Canadian cello-playing brothers (played by real-life brothers Theodor and Maximilian Aoki) who inadvertently steal a bag of money from a lethal hitman and all the woes that go along with it. Through a confluence of events and massive bad luck, they also have to save their father’s life, steal an $8 million dollar painting and fight for their lives to get into a prestigious music conservatory. Along the way they find out that blood is indeed thicker than bullets and that family never bails on family, no matter the cost.

CREDITS

A Federgreen Entertainment/Filmcoop Inc./Ravenbanner/Urban Post Production

Directed by Warren P. Sonoda

Written by Gary Nolan & Warren P. Sonoda

Produced by Avi Federgreen, Emily Andrews, Laura Nordin, Jennifer Pogue

Cinematography by Christoph Benfey

Edited by Anna Catley

Starring Theodor Aoiki, Maximilian Aoiki, Yodit Tewoderos, Jennifer Walton, Rhett Morita, Edward Aoiki, Dax Lough & Colette Zacca