Sandra Oh plays the Minister of Health who orders that the infected people be quarantined in Blindness. Here’s more about Blindness the movie:

From Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago and acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant Gardener,” “City of God”) comes the compelling story of humanity in the grip of an epidemic of mysterious blindness. It is an unflinching exploration of human nature, both bad and good–people’s selfishness, opportunism, and indifference, but also their capacity for empathy, love and sheer perseverance.

It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters – his wife, his doctor, even the seemingly good samaritan who gives him a lift home – will in due course suffer the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and paranoia set in across the city, the newly blind victims of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to break down.

But inside the quarantined hospital, there is one secret eyewitness: one woman (four-time Academy Award® nominee Julianne Moore) who has not been affected but has pretended she is blind in order to stay beside her beloved husband (Mark Ruffalo). Armed with increasing courage and the will to survive, she will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey, through horror and love, depravity and beauty, warfare and wonder, to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city where they may be the only hope left.

Their journey shines a light on both the dangerous fragility of society and the exhilarating spirit of humanity. It is brought to life by Academy Award® nominated director Fernando Meirelles from a screenplay by Tony Award winner Don McKellar, based on the international bestseller by Jose Saramago, and an ensemble cast that includes: Julianne Moore (“Far From Heaven,” “The Hours”), Mark Ruffalo (“Zodiac,” “Reservation Road”), Alice Braga (“I Am Legend,” “City of God”), Yusuke Iseya (“Sukiyaki Western Django,” “Kakuto”), Yoshino Kimura (“Sukiyaki Western Django,” “Semishigure”), Don McKellar (“Monkey Warfare,” “Childstar”), Maury Chaykin (“Where the Truth Lies,” “Being Julia”), with Danny Glover (“Dreamgirls,” “The Color Purple”), and Gael García Bernal (“Babel,” “The Motorcycle Diaries,” “Y tu mamá también”).

Also the first guy that goes blind is Japanese actor Yusuke Iseya. His wife is played by Japanese actress Yoshino Kimura. Oscar Hsu plays a prominent ophthalmologist. (You need one of those for a movie about blindness.) Chinese Canadian/Jamacian Linlyn Lue of Ms. Kwan Degrassi fame has a small role as well.

Blindness Trailer

Beau Sia plays Norman Sklear, a wedding czar emcee guy in Rachel Getting Married. He helps plan the rehearsal dinner and wedding with Rosemarie and Anisa George (Emma). It was an unscripted character imposed on the filming by casting Beau — an actor and poet.

Here’s a synopsis of Rachel Getting Married

When KYM (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister RACHEL (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis, family conflict and tragedy along with her. The wedding couple’s abundant party of friends and relations have gathered for a joyful weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym—with her biting one-liners and flair for bombshell drama—is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.

Filled with the rich and eclectic characters that remain a hallmark of Jonathan Demme’s films, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED paints a heartfelt, perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait. Director Demme, first-time writer Jenny Lumet, and the stellar acting ensemble leaven the drama of these difficult but compelling people with wry affection and generosity of spirit.

Rachel Getting Married Tariler

More about Beau Sia

Beau Sia is a Chinese-American poet from Oklahoma City. Beau has been featured in the award-winning film Slam and the documentary Slam Nation. He wrote the poetry book, A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge and two spoken word CDs, Attack! Attack! Go! and Dope and Wack. In 2001, Sia received the California Arts Council Writer-in-Residence grant for Youth Speaks, and was the lead artist for the Creative Work Fund. Beau has appeared on all seasons of HBO’s “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry,” and is one of the original cast members in Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, for which he was a 2003 Special Event Tony Award Winner. Sia is currently working on a new theater piece for the opening of the Museum of the Chinese in America in New York City. Prior to “Rachel Getting Married,” Sia was seen in Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate and coincidentally, in a TV on the Radio music video.