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pasquines.us | Hannah Tran
by | Apr 16, 2025 | Federal Government, Headlines | The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), established in 1979 under the United States Department of Homeland Security, plays a crucial role in responding to natural disasters across the nation.
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scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Hannah Tran
Computer SciencePhysical and Mathematical SciencesMatthew BaileyAmber GondaSeth Holladaybioinformatics, cancer genomics, copy number variation (CNV), cell cycle reversal, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer Tran, Hannah, "Regulation of Cell Cycle Proteins at the Extremes of Copy Number Variation in Cancer" (2025). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 425. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub_uht/425
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filmfestivaltoday.com | Hannah Tran
“Control Freak” Doesn’t Quite Scratch Its Horror ItchControl Freak (Shal Ngo, 2025) 3 out of 5 stars Negative self-talk is one of the most common feelings in the world. It can be a constant weight around people’s necks, holding them back from accomplishing their goals. But in writer/director Shal Ngo’s new film Control Freak, it’s much more literal. In his world, we learn that the evil voice in your head is not only real, but may be actively trying to devour you from the inside.
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2 months ago | 
filmfestivaltoday.com | Hannah Tran
Deaf President Now! (Nyle DiMarco/Davis Guggenheim, 2025) 4½ out of 5 starsIf you ever need reassurances about the power of protest, look no further than Deaf President Now! Based on the 1988 protest of the same name, this invigorating documentary tells the story of how students at Gallaudet University, the oldest university designed specifically for the deaf and hard of hearing, fought to have the first deaf president in the school’s 124-year history.
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2 months ago | 
filmfestivaltoday.com | Hannah Tran
Sundance Review: “Together”Together (Michael Shanks, 2025) 4 out of 5 stars Commitment is scary for many, but in Michael Shanks’ Together, it turns into an actual horror movie. While it’s nearly impossible to commend the film without spoiling its twisty conceit, be prepared for equal parts romance and disgust.
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filmfestivaltoday.com | Hannah Tran
Last Days (Justin Lin, 2025) 2 out of 5 starsIf you didn’t hear about the death of John Allen Chau in 2018, you can probably imagine the discourse that followed. Chau was the 26-year-old evangelical missionary who was killed when he illegally travelled to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to convert the isolated tribe there to Christianity.
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2 months ago | 
filmfestivaltoday.com | Hannah Tran
All That’s Left of You (Cherien Dabis, 2025) 4½ out of 5 stars It may be impossible to condense a history that feels as vast and complex as Palestine’s into a single story. But through the lens of a family, All That’s Left of You—from director Cherien Dabis (Amreeka)—reminds us how storytelling can stir all-encompassing emotions capable of capturing something much larger. Spanning almost 75 years, Dabis’ film creates an epic tale with an intimate landscape.
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2 months ago | 
filmfestivaltoday.com | Hannah Tran
Predators (David Osit, 2025) 4 out of 5 starsThe notion that a film has no idea where it’s going would typically be seen as a criticism. In the case of David Osit’s Predators, it becomes the documentary’s cardinal virtue. Osit (Mayor) dives into the rise, fall, and eventual fallout of To Catch a Predator, Dateline NBC’s hidden-camera series from the mid-2000s.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
filmfestivaltoday.com | Hannah Tran
Interview with “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” Director Mohammad RasoulofIranian Director Mohammad Rasoulof (Evil Does Not Exist) premiered his latest feature, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. I reviewed it out of the Toronto International Film Festival, in September. As he discusses in the press notes, the film almost landed him in prison for 8 years, given its politically fraught subject matter. Fortunately, Rasoulof was able to flee Iran and now resides in Germany.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
hammertonail.com | Hannah Tran
(Check out Hannah Tran’s Santosh movie review, in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)“There are two types of untouchables in this world,” begins the imperative line of director Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, “one who nobody wants to touch and one who no one can touch.” Premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, Suri’s narrative debut zeroes in on the whirlpool of those caught in-between.
