Daily Archives: July 22, 2008

4960 by Wing-Yee Wu

4960 by Wing-Yee Wu made it into the YouTube Screening Room. The New York based director was recently invited to represent the United States as part of “Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Frontera” in Italy.

Synopsis:

The faster you run, the more likely you are to stay alive.

Aida and Josef try to communicate between the distance from Point A to Point B. An exposed space, clearly visible to snipers, prevents them from doing so. Set during the Sarajevo siege, shot in NYC, award winning short film 4960 earned Jury comments: “Brutal, riveting, fearless . . . Profound depiction of human hunger for connection, scathing social commentary . . . Dead on convergence of ethics and aesthetics.”

Watch 4960 by Wing-Yee Wu

Help with David Choi’s album

Here’s a note from David Choi about his upcoming album

I wanted to open up this opportunity for everyone here who have supported me and been an active part of this forum. I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to do for my album cover art and here’s what I came up with.

Basically, I’m going to create a collage of everyone’s art and make it my cover. I’m thinking little boxes lined up in rows and columns. I’ll decide if I want to use your picture, depending on what it is. You will not be compensated for this except you will be able to say you are a part of my album (literally!).

OK, so what to draw? You can draw either a picture of me or something relating to me, or my songs. Here are some songs that will be on my album for inspiration…

Don’t Fade Away
Enjoy the View
Heart
Hold On
Only You
Our Song
Windmill
Thief in the Night
Won’t Even Start

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I recommend drawing something simple, because the more art I get, the smaller those boxes will be and harder to see your artwork. I also suggest you don’t use words. Just pictures. After you finish your art, send them to me in your BEST resolution/quality possible. You can send up to 3 pictures.

MAKE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME OR USERNAME AS THE FILE NAME OF THE ARTWORK.

davidchoimusic@gmail.com – Make the subject title ARTWORK FOR ALBUM

And remember, the pictures will be scrunched down, so in detailed pictures, you won’t be able to see all the intricacies BUT, there is a chance that I won’t get as many pictures and yours will be the only one there if you DO decide to make something fancy.

DO NOT GRAB PICTURES FROM THE INTERNET!!!!!!!! MUST BE ALL ORIGINAL ARTWORK!!!!!!!!!

David Choi tells you how you can help with his album

Big Dreams Little Tokyo DVD release

Boyd (Dave Boyle), a self-proclaimed businessman convinced he’s Japanese, and his roommate Jerome (Jayson Watabe), a sluggish but affable Japanese-American sumo wrestler, have big dreams for themselves. Together, the two travel door-to-door by tandem bike, giving flyers and sales pitches to anyone who listens…but Boyd’s Japanese clients aren’t buying his “Translation Services,” and no one will give Jerome–a paltry 200 pounds–a chance in the ring. When they meet Mai (Rachel Morihiro), who is unfazed by their oddities and offers a hand, Boyd and Jerome discover that in a world where cultural identity is seldom what it seems, there’s a place for everyone. The movie also stars Drew Knight, James Kyson Lee, Michael Yama and Pepe Serna.

Buy Big Dreams Little Tokyo DVD

Big Dreams Little Tokyo trailer

Boycott 21 DVD

The DVD for 21 gets released today. Continue to boycott 21, since “The main characters of Bringing Down the House are Jeff Ma and Mike Aponte, former real-life MIT students who are both Asian American men. Jeff Ma is played by Jim Sturgess, Mike Aponte is played by Jacob Pitts, and John Chang is played by Kevin Spacey.” Asian roles all got white-washed. Later in the casting process, a couple supporting characters who were Asians were added including Aaron Yoo as “Choi” and Liza Lapira as “Kianna.”

Aaron Yoo talks 21

Liza Lapira talks 21

Twin Daggers DVD release

In the 1930s, a famous Los Angeles underworld hitman Scholar (Rhett Giles) and a band of trained assassins are hired by the exotic and beautiful Kay (Coco Su) to avenge her parents’ death by the hands of her equally stunning twin sister. Traveling to Shanghai Scholar finds the twin sister Sue (Coco Su) has taken over the family fortunes and lifestyle. He finds himself falling for his target. Instead of killing her, he chooses to save her from his fellow assassins (Veronica ,Joey Covington, Vasilios Elovalis) by taking them out one-by-one. Torn between his commitment to his paying client and his romantic feelings for her sister Scholar enters into a dangerous liaison with both unable to trust either one and unable to let them go. In a moment of truth Scholar finds that Kay and Sue are not as he perceived and instead are one in the same. He had been set up by this woman to honor her family. Come to find out Scholar had killed her parents when she was a teenager and she had spent her life savings seeking revenge and restoring her family’s honor. Culminating in a spectacular martial arts battle between the twins and the assassins hired to kill them TWIN DAGGERS is an intricate and stunning movie that delivers one surprise twist after another. The film is directed by Kuen-Hou Chen.

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Twin Daggers trailer