Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park released music from the “The Raid: Redemption” Original Motion Picture Score & Soundtrack. The music was composed by Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese. With Mike’s first full length score, he creates an intriguing blend of palette of sounds rather than themes with different sounds represent various characters. Take a listen to this amazing score. You can download the soundtrack on .
Mike Shinoda is no stranger when it comes to music for films. Linkin Park has done several song for Transformers including Iridescent and New Divide.
The Raid: Redemption soundtrack by Mike Shinoda x Joseph Trapanese
A Week in Metro Manila: Up Dharma Down” is directed and produced by Tony Rago, a Chicago-based Pinoy Music-loving fan. The film started as a means to chronicle his week-long trip in Manila where he met with his favorite band, Up Dharma Down.
The documentary, which put together over a span of a year, features Up Dharma Down in a way their fans have never seen; in-depth interviews, live performances and fan testimonies are featured in this documentary. It’s a film made by a fan for fans.
This documentary was made not only for Rago’s self-confessed love for the OPM band but also to introduce the band in the international music scene – a possible achievement for Up Dharma Down with their music which is most likely to cross various countries.
This film was an official selection of the 2011 Chicago Filipino American Film Festival.
Temple City (aka Tri-City) is a community populated by foreign immigrants and plagued with police corruption. Coming overseas with dreams of a better life Jimmy Truong and his family immigrated to America. However with the death of his father and limited sources of income, his older brother Johnny, younger sister Jenny, and mother May moved to the Chinatown projects of Temple City. Johnny now the head of the household and barely making enough, starts dealing drugs to support his family. After a deal that went wrong Johnny gets arrested and Jimmy now becomes the man of the house. During Johnny’s arrest officer Peter Wong injures May putting her in the hospital where Jimmy starts to despise the ones that “Protect and Serve.” With a “Never Backing Down” attitude along with constant financial burden and stress from his family, Jimmy reaches out to his gangster friend Eric for help. Out of desperation Jimmy joins Eric’s gang the “Fook Sing’s” one of Chinatown’s most notorious triad organization to make ends meet. With intentions to just make enough and walk away, Jimmy meets his fist rival David Tao from “Ming’s Gang.” Jimmy is now on their hit list with no choice but to stay in Fook Sing for protection where he quickly moves up the ranks. Will Jimmy finally be able to support his family and leave the Fook Sings or will his rise in the gang leading him to be one of the most notorious Asian crime lords in American history?
Shot in San Francisco, the film “The Life” is not just about survival, but also corruption, jealously, greed, power and what a man is willing to do when his back is up against the wall. This gangster movie is unlike your typical Asian Triad movie. The story focuses on how immigrating and growing up in America has its struggles. The story takes a deep look into Jimmy’s stressful family life and the causes which lead him to a life of crime.
VIETTE is the coming of age drama concerning a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American teenager who finds the support and affection she lacks at home in an older young man and a sexual relationship too mature for her age. Balancing the pleasures of their forbidden interracial relationship with maintaining her academic excellence, Viette’s journey into womanhood turns with unexpected devastation and betrayal.
Desperate to carve her own path in spite of her parents’ expectations, she possesses a profound longing for love, acceptance and exploration. Falling into a downward spiral as her double life is revealed, Viette is forced to choose her fate. Will she choose individual freedom, and at what cost?
The Crumbles is an indie rock slice-of life tragicomedy about Darla (Katie Hipol), an overly serious musician whose stagnant life is shaken up when her long lost best friend Elisa (Teresa Michelle Lee) shows up and crashes on her couch… indefinitely. Free-spirited Elisa has just moved back to Los Angeles after a devastating break-up, and no one else in their funky group of friends is willing to help her out. She is charming and musically gifted, making her the perfect partner in the band that Darla has long wanted to start up. But when the band gets rolling, insecurity, heartache, and oversized egos all work against them. While they both share dreams of rocking the globe, it becomes a monumental struggle just getting out of the garage. But despite all the setbacks, dashed hopes, and unrealized dreams, the Crumbles do what needs to be done … and keep on rocking.
The Crumbles trailer
More about The Crumbles
The Crumbles was inspired by the real-life experience of playing in a garage band—and the ego battles, minor successes, unfulfilled dreams, and life lessons that went along with it. The film was completed on a shoestring budget with the help of many smart and talented friends and UCLA film school classmates. It was shot by James Yuan using a Canon Rebel T2i fitted with Nikon lenses from the 1980s, and edited on an iMac in a garage in Eagle Rock. The music was composed and performed by Quetzal Flores with assistance from his musician friends. Long live rock ‘n’ roll!
Sunset Stories is a dark comedy, part After Hours and part Chunking Express, combining satire and awkward, relentless denial. May (Monique Gabriela Curnen) and JP (Sung Kang) are each other’s perfect excuse for imperfect lives. Their unexpected reunion forces the couple to explore issues of penance and self-forgiveness through the genre of a chase movie. Here’s more about the film:
May, a high-strung and overly meticulous nurse with a swearing problem, must return to Los Angeles to retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. Soon after her trip begins, her world turns upside down when past and present collide and she runs smack into JP, the man she left behind five years ago. Flustered, May loses the cooler containing the marrow. With only 24 hours remaining, the two embark on an offbeat search through the streets of Los Angeles only to discover that just when you think all is lost you find what you least expected. The closer they get, the closer they come to finding the truth of what went so terribly wrong between them.
Propelled by insults from strangers, running from the past, losing time, and navigating through the world of the post-hipster, Sunset Stories visually carries the story through a use of macro-close up, wide city landscapes and a restless, voyeuristic camera to fuel the emotional urgency of the characters and heighten the joy ride for the audience.
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