Marié Digby stars in an all-new music film series “Breathing Underwater”. She shares the story of a young woman’s heart told through her music. Here’s the first of 17 episodes.
Breathing Underwater – Part 1
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Here’s a dope track for Going Away by Petey-O x Monica x JL. It’s a chill video with some of their friends out in Virginia celebrating the 4th of July. The music video was directed by rapper Lyricks. (He also edited Bullets of Truth by Dumbfoundead.)
Going Away by Petey-O x Monica x JL
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Wong Fu Weekends is back with Season 2. With all the work that Wes, Phil, and Ted have to do, they’ve got all sorts of office distractions from fellow youtubers Ryan Higa and David Choi along with the gift of nerf.
Wong Fu Weekends – Episode 18
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Wong Fu Weekends – Episode 18 (extended footage)
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As most of you know, Clara has been recording her debut album at Paramount Studios, which have had the likes of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, John Mayer, Lupe Fiasco and many other great artists and musicians walk through the very halls and record in the same room that Clara is recording her debut album in. This video will show a glimpse of what Clara’s recording sessions are like. The studio used in this video is Paramount Studios flagship studi, a 3,000 sq ft. private studio with a private lounge, kitchen, bedroom, and the best recording equipment available to any musician. If you missed the previous peek behind the scenes, watch Making of CLARA C’s Debut Album – Day 1.
Here’s few of Clara’s recent songs: Clocks, Up in the Air, Fool’s Gold, and Clouds. She even did a gig at the White House.
Making of CLARA C’s Debut Album – Day 2
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Enemies of the People is a compelling personal documentary exposing for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s horrific genocide. Winner of a dozen top documentary festival awards, including a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, this is a riveting film that takes audiences as close to witnessing evil as they are ever likely to get.
The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now.
In Enemies of the People, the men and women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two – break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen. Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia’s best investigative journalists, Thet Sambath. He is on a personal quest: he lost his own family in the Killing Fields. The film is his journey to discover not how but why they died. In doing so, he hears and understands for the first time the real story of his country’s tragedy.
After years of visits and trust-building, Sambath finally persuades Brother Number Two to admit (again, for the first time) in detail how he and Pol Pot (the two supreme powers in the Khmer Rouge state) decided to kill party members whom they considered ‘Enemies of the People’. Sambath’s remarkable work goes even one stage further: over the years he befriends a network of killers in the provinces who implemented the kill policy. For the first time, we see how orders created on an abstract political level translate into foul murder in the rice fields and forests of the Cambodian plain. Sambath’s work represents a watershed both in Cambodian historiography and in the country’s quest for closure on one of the world’s darkest episodes.
The United Nations and the Cambodian government have set up a tribunal to try the senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge for international crimes. Brother Number Two’s trial is expected to start in 2010.
Also check out the short film Cambodian American.
Enemies of the People Trailer
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Keep your eyes out for this short film hitting a film festival near you. The topic of paper sons is rarely discussed in the Chinese community. The short film “Journey of a Paper Son” delves straight in with this melodramatic look at the subject. Here’s a synopsis:
In “Journey of a Paper Son,” an elderly Chinese man (Jack Ong), who’s dying from cancer, shocks his family when he reveals that he’s a “paper son” (one who illegally immigrated to the U.S., using fake documents and claiming he’s the son of an American citizen) and asks them for a final wish to change back his name. His request threatens to tear apart his family (Patty Toy Chung, Angelina Cheng, Teddy Chen Culver), testing the limits of their love. He forces them to question who he really is and even their own identities. Meanwhile, his doctor (Mario Cortez) desperately tries to save him. We discover that the dying man is just one of countless “paper sons” who were born from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first federal law to restrict immigration to the U.S. based on race or nationality. Recently, the California legislature approved a landmark bill—ACR 42—on July 17, 2009 to apologize to the state’s Chinese American community for racist laws, including the Chinese Exclusion Act.
STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR:
“I always wanted to make a film about Chinese American history. One major event in our rich history is the Chinese Exclusion Act, which deeply affected many generations of our people. I explored this far-reaching event through its profound impact on a single family. Hopefully, by revealing the past, our film helps to prevent similar events from happening in the future.”—Ming Lai, Producer/Writer/Director, “Journey of a Paper Son”
Check their website here for upcoming screenings.
Journey of a Paper Son Trailer
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