Daily Archives: April 26, 2011

Juliette Hing-Lee in Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale

Juliette Hing-Lee in Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale

Actress Juliette Hing-Lee plays Kit in the new film “ELLE: A Modern Cinderella Tale”. Kit is the kind of friend that every girl needs. The kind of person who can pick you up when you’re down or help you see the good things you can’t see in yourself. Here’s more about the film:

Elle (Ashlee Hewitt) wants to be a singer/songwriter, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her parents. She moves in with her adoptive uncle, who runs a small independent record label whose biggest act, Sensation, is also Elle’s biggest pain. The pop music environment at the label, very different than the country roots she is used to, adds to Elle’s feelings of loss and frustration, and her misplaced guilt, which is caused by the fact that her parents had been en route to her performance at the time of their death. But when she meets Ty Parker (Sterling Knight), a famous pop singer with a passion for “real” music, her repressed ambition is released through a revitalized interest in singing and songwriting.

Sort of like Elle’s fairy godmother, Kit challenges Elle to take risks she is afraid to take, and is always there for an encouraging word. But when it comes to her own life, will she practice what she preaches? Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale also won “Best Family Film” at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival. You can get the movie on amazon.

Find out how Juliette Hing-Lee liked working on the movie & with the cast, learn new things about her & more!

Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale trailer

The Perfect Girl by FREQUENCY 5 (look for Juliette Hing-Lee in the video)

The Lulu Sessions directed by S. Casper Wong

The Lulu Sessions directed by S. Casper Wong

Nominated for the Grand Jury Award by the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (April 28-May 7, 2011), THE LULU SESSIONS will have its World Premiere on April 30th at the Directors Guild of America. THE LULU SESSIONS is a raw and deeply personal documentary with a larger-than-life protagonist. It wrestles with everyone’s biggest fear – how to face the end of life.

“LuLu”, short for Louise, is an incredibly charming and challenging personality who defies all convention. At 42, she’s the potty-mouthed, chain-smoking, no-holds-barred Dr. Louise Nutter, genius cancer researcher and demanding yet beloved professor, though her sweet-sounding nickname has stuck from her childhood days as a former cheerleader growing up on a farm. At 42, she is told she has malignant breast cancer.

The next 15 months—LuLu’s last—are an adventure that rattles her assumptions, values and self-image and tests the limits of even the bond between LuLu and her best friend, the filmmaker. THE LULU SESSIONS, is a film that offers us insight not only into a deeply connected relationship but the beginning of an intimacy between two women that outgrows our understanding of friendship and partnership – and maybe even life. Lulu returns to her family farm for stability and solace but battles resurrected ghosts instead. Dying becomes a process of shedding long-held but stale presumptions, obligations and relationships and forging new ones.

The Lulu Sessions is a powerful, stark testimonial about our capacity for love, friendship, forgiveness and life itself, in the face of impending mortality. It prods us to wonder what our own final adventure will look like. And with whom will we be sharing this last ride.

The Lulu Sessions teaser

More about S. Casper Wong
The LuLu Sessions is the debut feature documentary of director/writer S. Casper Wong. Her Shirts & Skins, a narrative short, was broadcast nationally by the Independent Film Channel and is in the Tribeca Film Institute’s curated Reframe Collection. OO 1, a narrative feature screenplay, received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Grant for Screenwriting and Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at Urbanworld Film Festival and was awarded screenwriting grants. Wong is currently working on Staying Well, a feature documentary and television mini-series in collaboration with UCLA about integrative East-West medicine, and Becoming, a longitudinal documentary chronicling Chinese adoptees growing up in American families. Prior to earning an MFA in film directing from New York University, Wong was a senior attorney at IBM.

Inspired by the Struggle, Created in the Hustle by Bossquach

Inspired by the Struggle, Created in the Hustle by Bossquach

Bossquach dropped the autobiographical track “Inspired by the Struggle” from gang banging to turning his life around. He went from a middle class family to running with gangs on the streets. Now he’s taking a new path. It’s a 9 to 5 job, then afterhours in the studio recording track after track. The song is pretty inspirational.

Last year, he teamed up with Mike-Dash-E to do the single Ridin’ Thru tha City.

Inspired by the Struggle, Created in the Hustle by Bossquach

A Yo the Bossman by Antoneus Maximus

A Yo the Bossman by Antoneus Maximus

Rapper Antoneus Maximus delivers a new music video fresh from the Saigon Electric soundtrack. B-boys from the film strut their stuff in the video with Antoneus Maximus proclaiming he the bossman. He raps about his grind and goal to strive to be the best. Who’s the hippest to ever hit the stage?

Also check out his track Look Up.

A Yo the Bossman by Antoneus Maximus (contains profanity)

Kimchi Chronicles Preview for PBS

Kimchi Chronicles Preview for PBS

Long a favorite of in-the-know foodies, Korean cuisine is poised to become the next big food trend, with dishes like bibimbap and kimchi popping up on menus nationwide. In a new PBS series that will begin airing in summer 2011, Korean-born actress/model Marja Vongerichten and three-star Michelin chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten will give viewers an insider’s look at Korea as they travel the country and experience its authentic flavors and cultural traditions. The series is a food and travel show that discovers Korean food and culture over a 13 episode journey. Guest stars include Hugh & Deb Jackman and Heather Graham. Each episode will be a combination of eating extravaganza and picturesque travelogue with food serving as a vehicle to meet and celebrate the people, places and traditions of Korea

As the show’s companion cookbook, The Kimchi Chronicles will include a recipe for every dish featured, explaining how they can be easily duplicated in an American kitchen. Chef Vongerichten will also offer original dishes with a lighter, modern flair, showing how the flavors of the Korean table can be readily integrated into any meal.

For lovers of Korean food, those eager to experiment in search of an accessible introduction to this intriguing cuisine, and readers who just want a little taste of culinary and cultural exploration outside the Western Hemisphere, The Kimchi Chronicles is sure to provide plenty of inspiration, information, and entertainment. The series will premiere in New York in early May and then air nationwide starting July 2011 on a public television (PBS) station near you.

Kimchi Chronicles Preview for PBS

Kimchi Chronicles – 1st Episode Intro

Sometimes When We Touch with Manny Pacquiao x Dan Hill

Sometimes When We Touch with Manny Pacquiao x Dan Hill

After his performance of “Sometimes When We Touch” on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Manny finally got a chance connect with the original singer Dan Hill. The pair did a duet of the track with the original team behind the song. Hill stated of Pacuiao, “I was immediately drawn by the honesty and the gentleness of his performance. It was like ‘wow'”. Now you can get Manny Pacquiao’s greatest music hits on Sometimes When We Touch - null or amazon.

Manny Pacquiao is promoting his music a week before his next fight. He’ll be on Jimmy Kimmel later this week promoting his fight for the WBO welterweight title in Las Vegas against Shane Mosley on May 7, 2011. We’re expecting his to sing in his appearance. Most likely “Sometimes When We Touch”.

Sometimes When We Touch with Manny Pacquiao x Dan Hill

Sometimes When We Touch with Manny Pacquiao x Dan Hill

Also check out the spoof of this song in “Sometimes When I Punch“.