Winner of the 2010 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Special Jury Award in the Narrative category for “Best First Feature!” Here’s a lil’ video I captured of Daniel “DPD” Park’s acceptance speech (shot w/ my ghetto digital camera):
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May 10
“Ktown Cowboys” Episode 2
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Interpretations
Brought to you by You Offend Me You Offend My Family and director Justin Lin. Make a 3-minute short film with the following script:
It’s not something I’d do.
Well?
It’s not what I expected.
You sure?
It’s totally up for your interpretation. Sounds like a lot of fun. Five finalists will be announced at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in October and will receive $3,000 each as well as a one-year subscription to the WGA’s WRITTEN BY magazine. For more info, check out: interpretationsfilm.com.
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May 10
What Happens When We Don’t Sleep…
So Arden and I were cleaning the house for five hours today after she came home from a night shoot. I went to sleep at 6:30a, so I didn’t get very much sleep. You can prob guess that the both of us were quite delirious. Anyway, it was actually a really good time… just deep cleaning and listening to/singing along to worship music. After all the cleaning, we were hungry, so we ordered some food. We also made 3 vlogs while we were at it…
Quite a productive day… or not. Haha. We don’t even really know what we’re doing with this YouTube channel… just being random.
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May 10
Cinema Musica 2010 was a success!
The crowd pleaser of the night was Sour’s “Hibi No Neiro (Tone of Everyday)” directed by Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura, and Masayoshi Nakamura (mucho thanks to Anderson Le for hooking this one up!):
Kina Grannis’ “Valentine” directed by Ross Ching, Far East Movement’s “I Party” directed by Choz Belen, and Taiyo Na’s “Immigrant Mother” directed by Gary San Angel were also very well-received by the audience. All in all, everyone I spoke to said that they really enjoyed the program and that every single video, even the ones lower in production quality, stood strong in concept.
A highlight of the night for me was when Gene Cajayon came up to me after the program and thanked me for putting it together. He told me that he’d been thinking of quitting filmmaking, but my program inspired and encouraged him! I was actually really encouraged by his words and by others’ feedback throughout the night, cuz’ to be honest, I had been thinking this might be my last year curating the program after last year’s not-so-strong program. Btw, Gene directed THE DEBUT, which I’ve actually owned on DVD since college, so it was very cool to meet him!
Anyway, I’m so glad people liked the music vids this year! For those who missed the screening, you can watch all the videos online here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E4112D44F4663E7F
Finally, thanks again to all who came out last night! Mucho thanks to all the filmmakers and artists who were in attendance. And of course, to LAAPFF/Visual Communications for giving me the opportunity to curate this program, to Toyota for sponsoring, and to the Downtown Independent for hosting us!
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May 10
“Ktown Cowboys” Episode 1
is now online!
5 out of 7 of the webisodes actually premiered as a feature-length at a sold out screening at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival this past Saturday. ‘Twas definitely a good night for “Ktown Cowboys” with lots of buzz.
Now that the first episode has been released online, expect to see the rest in the coming weeks. If you like it, please comment, subscribe, favorite, and share!
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Artichoke & Peachies
Um. I don’t know what to say about this… except that Arden and I were just really bored. Since we’re both unemployed and live together, maybe you’ll be seeing more of these…
Any suggestions on what to talk about?
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Justin Chon x Big Phony’s “But I Will, Everyday”
Last night at the film fest, Justin Chon showed me a music video he directed for our friend, Big Phony. Check it out… “But I Will, Everyday” shot with Justin’s iPhone! Watch it all the way through! It’s super cute:
I think if Justin keeps it up with directing, we might see something of his at the film festivals in the next few years!
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Apr 10
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Opens tonight! See you there? http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/
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Toyota Presents: Cinema Musica!
Next Tuesday night at the Downtown Independent, my music video program returns in its 4th year at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. This is usually quite the popular event with a lot of artists in attendance, so I’d recommend getting a hold of your tickets sooner than later, cuz’ it WILL sell out. There will be an afterparty on the rooftop (for badgeholders only) and most likely one at Origami or another nearby joint! Come enjoy some music videos on the big screen and then mingle for a bit! Viva la Cinema Musica!
Buy Tickets: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8087995
Program Info: http://asianfilmfestla.org/2010/program-guide/program-52/
One of my fave vids from last year’s program:
