Prince Gomolvilas’ mysterious skin

Gregg Araki did a masterful job of bringing Scott Heim’s Mysterious Skin to the big screen and now Prince Gomolvilas has done a brillant job of bringing the book to stage with the East West Players. While the costume design is a weak spot and a bit distracting...

Charlie Nguyen Interview

1.  Your films Chances Are (2001), The Rebel (2006) and Fool For Love (2010) have 5 and 4 year gaps between between the productions. Many people probably don’t know that you are actively involved in live concerts, music videos and documentaries in addition to...

Charlie Nguyen is a fool for love

The film Fool In Love is now in limited release here in the USA, but sold out where it’s being shown. That isn’t really a surprise considering who the director is, Charlie Nguyen, who gave us the awesome Vietnamese film The Rebel in 2006 (we’ve seen...

Tadashi Nakamura Interview

Sometimes sound bites are not quite enough! We posed five questions to Tad and as promised, Part 2 of our Tadashi Nakumra posting is now here! 1. Your parents have a long career in documenting Japanese-American history and experience including the establishment of the...

Tadashi Nakamura is history, part 1

Director Tadashi Nakamura is a unique breed of filmmaker who created a trilogy of films, Yellow Brotherhood, Pilgrimage, and A Song For Ourselves, documenting moments in Japanese-American history. That in an of itself perhaps isn’t unique, but Tad has the...