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Daniel Hsia Interview: Shanghai Calling 纽约客@上海
The Newport Beach Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival kick off the premiere of Daniel Hsia's film Shanghai Calling about an ambitious New York attorney (Daniel Henney) who is sent to Shanghai on assignment immediately stumbling into a legal...
Janet Yang Interview: Shanghai Calling 纽约客@上海
The Newport Beach Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival kick off the premiere of Daniel Hsia's film Shanghai Calling about an ambitious New York attorney (Daniel Henney) who is sent to Shanghai on assignment immediately stumbling into a legal...
Perry Chen Interview: Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
We caught up with animator Perry Chen at the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival to talk about his film Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest and his new animated project in the works. Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest will screen at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival Sunday,...
Sean Gallagher Interview: Shanghai Calling 纽约客@上海
On the red carpet with actor Sean Gallagher. The Newport Beach Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival kick off the premiere of Daniel Hsia's film Shanghai Calling about an ambitious New York attorney (Daniel Henney) who is sent to Shanghai on...
Susan Lew Interview: Shanghai Calling 纽约客@上海
The Newport Beach Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival kick off the premiere of Daniel Hsia's film Shanghai Calling about an ambitious New York attorney (Daniel Henney) who is sent to Shanghai on assignment immediately stumbling into a legal...
Lily Mariye Interview: Model Minority
Actress Lily Mariye decided to step behind the camera to direct her first feature film that she also wrote, Model Minority. The film is about Kayla Tanaka (Nicole Bloom), who is 16 and half-Japanese, half-white, but totally American. Kayla meets Treyshawn Doty (Delon...
Lily Mariye Interview: Asian American Film Roles, ER, Star Trek, Shameless
Having worked for over 3 decades in Hollywood, Lily Mariye has a wonderful perspective on how roles for Asian Americans have evolved in the film industry and she also gave us insight into playing doctors/nurses and her role as Nurse Lily Jarvik on the long running TV...
Sheetal Sheth Interview: ABCD, Looking For Comedy In the Muslim World, Reign and The Wisdom
Sheetal Sheth has had a number of great film roles over her varied acting projects during the last 10+ years she has been working as an actress and we picked some of those film roles to talk about including Kurtin Patel's "ABCD," about an ageing Asian-American widow...
Lynn Chen Interview: Saving Face, White On Rice, Surrogate Valentine and The People I’ve Slept With
Lynn talks about some of her roles including the films Saving Face, Alice Wu's movie about a Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother who are both reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations; working with Director...
Sheetal Sheth & Lynn Chen Interview: Nice Girls Crew
Sophie (Lynn Chen), Leena (Sheetal Sheth), and Geraldine (Michelle Krusiec) have been true "frenemies" since elementary school. All grown up and finding themselves in the city of Los Angeles, the ladies seek refuge from their isolation in a book club where they never...
Michelle Krusiec Interview: Nice Girls Crew
Sophie (Lynn Chen), Leena (Sheetal Sheth), and Geraldine (Michelle Krusiec) have been true "frenemies" since elementary school. All grown up and finding themselves in the city of Los Angeles, the ladies seek refuge from their isolation in a book club where they never...
Michelle Krusiec Interview: Relative Insanity & A Helping Hand
Michelle talks about two upcoming film projects, a contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic play The Seagull set in present-day New York City and The Hamptons called Relative Insanity written by Michael Din, and the short film starring Sandra Oh, A Helping...