Monthly Archives: February 2009

Watchmen screenwriter Alex Tse

Arowana Films created a trailer for the panel “From Sucker Free City to Watchmen: An Afternoon with Screenwriter Alex Tse” that will take place during the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The event takes place on March 14, 2009 at 3:30PM in the HOTEL KABUKI in San Francisco.

One of the most sought-after young screenwriters in Hollywood, San Francisco native Alex Tse has, in just a few short years, risen through its ranks to pen one of the year’s most anticipated films, DC Comics’ THE WATCHMEN. In this intimate session, Tse, in conversation with friend and fellow filmmaker Spencer Nakasako, will delve into the world of writing for the screen: his unorthodox route through Hollywood, the inspirations for his creativity and the pressures of adapting one of the most beloved graphics novels of all time.

Watchmen screenwriter Alex Tse

More about Alex Tse

A graduate of Emerson College, Tse’s first feature script, 87 FLEER, set in The City’s Richmond District, was bought by Showtime (though not yet produced), opening the door to a more ambitious project that eventually became the television movie SUCKA FREE CITY (2004), directed by Spike Lee. A gritty and incisive sociological portrait of San Francisco, CITY won accolades for its distinctive and authentic voice, and propelled Tse to his most recent project, THE WATCHMEN, directed by Zack Snyder (300).

Bobby Jindal response to Obama speech

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal delivered the Republicans’ rebuttal to Obama’s speech. You can watch the full speech below.

Bobby Jindal response to Obama speech

Left Behind by Dai Sugano

Japanese videographer Dai Sugano delves into the slums of India and brings back powerful images. These are the same slums in Slumdog Millionaire. Sugano’s work has been shown by the San Jose Mercury News and MSNBC.com. Take a look at this dramatic video about the poverty in Mumbia.

Left Behind by Dai Sugano

More about Dai Sugano

Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com whose interactive story telling has been judged among the world’s best two years in a row in the Pictures of the Year International contest. Sugano covers wide range of assignments which have included: Poverty in India, Hmong refugees’ immigration to the United States; the California Recall; former Japanese Internment camp survivors and number of stories in politics. In 2008, “Uprooted,” which looks at displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, won an Emmy Award in New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries. His other work have been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize in photography; and have received international and national recognitions.

Kristin Kreuk from ‘Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li’

The lovely Kristin Kreuk joins G4TV in the studio to talk about her role as Chun-Li in the soon to be released ‘Street Fighter’ film all about her, as well as her 9 years working on ‘Smallville.’ Check out the footage with the fight in the bathroom. Also see the Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li trailer.

Kristin Kreuk from ‘Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li’

Vote in 2nd annual DIY Music Video Contest

UPDATE: The winners of the 2nd annual DIY Music Video Contest have been announced.


The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Locus@Kearny Street Workshop have teamed up for the 2nd annual DIY Music Video Contest. Asian American musicians were teamed up with Asian American filmmakers to make music videos. All of the videos were made in the span of two months by teams of community filmmakers, musicians and volunteers with little or no budget. That’s grassroots collaboration!!

You can participate too. watch and rate the videos below to decide who will win a spot in the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival’s Music Video Asia which will be March, 14 2009. Voting ends March 6. The highest rated video will win the DIY People’s Choice Award and a jury panel will determine the Jury Prize Winner. Both awards will be announced on March 9, 2009. (The ratings are pretty close right now.)

Wicked Smile – Cast of Thousands

Careless – Mud

Change Gon’ Come – Aristyles

Holdin’ Up the Wall – Denizen Kane

Lay Where She May – Under Kat

Where Do We Go From Here – Mandeep Sethi

Paper Heart – Erik Satie

Jonah – Fiveng

Secret Identities – 9066

This is the second of 8 trailer for Secret Identities. The chapter is entitled “9066”, which can be found on Page 25 of SECRET IDENTITIES: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (in stores April 2009). The story centers around a Japanese American superhero who is sent into an internment camp after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor — using his authority as Commander-in-Chief to exercise war powers to send ethnic groups to internment camps.

Executive Order 9066 was finally rescinded by Gerald Ford on February 19, 1976.

“9066” was written by Jonathan Tseui and drawn by Jerry Ma — and is one of the several “shadow history” pieces in the book inspired by actual historic events pertaining to Asians in America.

Get your copy of “SECRET IDENTITIES: The Asian American Superhero Anthology” today.

Secret Identities – 9066

UPDATE:

Secret Identities Book Trailer

In the Beginning

9066

You Are What You Eat

Secret Identities panel at New York Comic Con

Secret Identities at ECAASU 2009

The Blue Scorpion & Chung

A Day At CostumeCO.

The Citizen

S.O.S.

Secret Identities with Lynn Chen

Secret Identities with Secret Asian Man Tak Toyoshima