Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor…a fearsome Bengal tiger. The film stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, and Gerard Depardieu. Life of Pi hits theaters on November 21, 2012.
An epic film of a girl, Soutchada Pradith (Tabatha) born in Laos who was abandoned by her father. At age 13, she travels to America to find out who she is by locating him. She hires a washed up private investigator to track down her father. This dramatic story of lost love takes a bad turn when the PI becomes a suspect in a homicide he witnessed. Follow along this ground breaking motion picture as the two elude the police, run from a killer all the while searching for the girls father. It combines for the first time in film history African American and Laotian cultures.
On a stormy Sydney evening, Linh (Nammi Le), a young Vietnamese-Australian university student, climbs into an anonymous car to begin work as a part-time escort. Her driver, Dion, and Mint, the Thai girl sitting in the back, will be her constant companions as she travels the city from job to job, negotiating her way through experiences that are often confronting to Linh whose moral compass has to be re-adjusted after each evening’s work.
Linh’s father has lost his job and her family are in danger of losing their house. Linh’s new income helps pay the mortgage, but to keep her prostitution secret, she becomes a consummate liar. Her parents are only too pleased she is able to help and believe her lies. Not even her closest friends know – least of all her boyfriend Jack.
How all this affects Linh emotionally is glimpsed in the relationship she forms with one of her regular clients, Luke, a former US Marine dealing in looted art works from Iraqi museums. They talk about Linh’s studies in social anthropology and religion and Linh gradually adapts to the double life she leads.
When finally Linh’s two worlds collide, she struggles to deal with the shock and distress of those close to her and the value judgements of a society whose double standards she has witnessed first-hand.
Being in a relationship is hard enough, but when your parents’ opinions get involved your relationship can get out of control quickly. Chinese parents the Lees (George Cheung and Elizabeth Sung) want their kids to marry Chinese. When their daughter Anita (Lina So Myung) known as the Pink Raider goes out with a unemployed Korean American writer for the Power Raiders (Steve Myung), Anita’s parents aren’t too happy. Her parents try to derail the relationship by introducing their daughter to a doctor. Will Anita or her parents win the battle of who she dates?
The films stars Lina So Myung, Steve Myung, George Cheung, Elizabeth Sung, dumbfoundead, megan lee, and more. Look for the movie to be released soon.
As a tropical storm beats down on the Philippine island of Cebu, two sisters leave work and never make it home.
That same night, 300 miles away in Manila on a different island, 19-year-old culinary student Paco Larrañaga, 19, is at a party, surrounded by dozens of reliable witnesses. The missing women, Marijoy, 21, and Jacqueline Chong, 23, are pretty and innocent Chinese-Filipinos, a group that has formed a traditional underclass. Paco, accused of their rapes and murders, is part of a prominent mestizo political clan that includes a former president. One of the most sensational trials in the country’s history ensues, exposing shocking corruption within the judicial system and long-simmering class and racial antipathies among the population. Beefy and tough, with a past of petty offenses, he neatly fits the role of privileged thug–and that is how he is cast by a frenzied media circus that swarms his arrest and trial, and cheers his eventual sentence to death by lethal injection. Reflecting schisms of race, class, and political power at the core of the Philippines’ tumultuous democracy, clashing families, institutions, and individuals face off to convict or free Paco. Against a backdrop of tabloid journalism, political intrigue and police misconduct, one mother becomes a media darling, the other waits for justice, a judge commits suicide — and the young man remains behind bars. Their irreconcilable versions of reality and justice play out in a case that ends a country’s use of capital punishment, yet fails to free an innocent man.
GIVE UP TOMORROW is not your usual suspense story of a man wrongly accused, and Paco Larrañaga is not your usual hero. But his very lack of facile appeal challenges his society and filmgoers to rely on facts over impressions, evidence over prejudice. Amnesty International, the government of Spain, Fair Trials International, and the United Nations are unequivocal in the belief that for more than a decade, Paco has been paying with his freedom for a crime he did not commit.
Check your local listings for the film on Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 10 pm PBS.
Chink the movie just concluded production a few months ago and now the first glimpse of the bloody teaser is making its way online. Chink is about an Asian American man who has internalized the racism he felt as a child and turned it into a hatred of all Asians – including himself. Meet Eddy Tsai. He hates being Asian. He’s even changed his last name to “Richards” and lies that he was adopted by Caucasian parents. His anger and his desire to be like his hero (Ted Bundy) leads him to violence and ultimately to his dream of becoming the greatest serial killer in history.
The film stars Jason Tobin (Better Luck Tomorrow and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), Eugenia Yuan (Memoirs of a Geisha), Rane Jameson (The People I’ve Slept With), Shoshana Bush (Dance Flick), Kenzie Dalton, and Tzi Ma (Rush Hour).
The micro-budget feature CHINK was shot on location in Los Angeles in late June through early July 2012. The team was fortunate enough to have an extremely talented crew. Without their hardwork and dedication the film would not have been possible.
Chink the movie teaser (contains graphic violence)
