''Baby'' is a 2007

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directed by

Juwan Chung Juwan Chung (born 1983) is an American director and writer. His gangland film ''Baby'' won a Special Jury Prize for Best Feature, Narrative at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and lead Actor David Huynh won a Special Jury Prize at ...

and starring

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Feodor Chin Feodor Chin is an American actor, producer, writer and director. Chin starred as the antagonist "Benny" in Juwan Chung's ''Baby'' opposite David Huynh, the protagonist. ''Baby'' won a Special Jury Award for Best Feature Length Film, Narrative at ...

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and

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. Considered part of the

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genre, the film tells the story of an Asian-American youth's gang life in

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, set during the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. It has been called "the Asian American ''

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''" by the

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. The film won Best Narrative Feature at the 2007

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and a Special Jury Award for "Outstanding Newcomer" for star

at the same film festival that year, and a Best Director award for Director

at the 2008

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.Baby, Gangs of Los Angeles, Quantum Wire, http://quantumwire.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/baby-gangs-of-los-angeles/ It was also distributed by

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Synopsis

''Baby'' is the tragic story of an Asian-American youth trapped in the seedy, dead-end world of

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and

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dens that characterize

gang life in the 1980s. Baby (Ryan Andres) is a motherless, poverty stricken 11-year-old with only an alcoholic father (

) to raise him. Things only get worse when he's taken under the wing of his gangster neighbor Tommy (

), who leads him down a path that lands him in

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for

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, with Benny (

) ostracizing Baby from the group. After seven violent years in prison, Baby (now portrayed by

) is released, but struggles to fit into a society that rejects him, and soon returns to a life of drugs, street gangs and murder. Meanwhile Benny has risen through the ranks to become the local Crime Boss for a side of the

Wah Ching Wah Ching ( zh, s=华青, t=華青, first=t, j=Waa4 Cing1), meaning Chinese Youth, is a Chinese American criminal organization and street gang that was founded in San Francisco, California in 1964. The Wah Ching has been involved in crimes inclu ...

Triad. Only his childhood friends and a lost love offer him any hope of turning his life around before it's too late.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baby (2007 film) 2007 films Asian-American action films Chinese-American films Hood films Triad films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films 2000s Hong Kong films

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