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Akira Boch’s The Crumbles and His Upcoming Atomic Cafe

Today, AAM.tv is releasing Akira Boch’s The Crumbles, a dramatic feature about two mixed race twenty-something female punk rockers forming their band “The Crumbles.” Director…

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Age Is Just a Number: Why I Started Making Digital Art

As a filmmaker, I’ve worked with many actors since I started in the industry in 1993, attending graduate film school (MFA) at UCLA. As I…

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Quentin Lee at the 2007 Vancouver Asian Film Festival
Posted in Culture US

In a Violent Country

As an immigrant in America, I was writing this article a few months earlier and I stopped writing because I felt like crying over spilled…

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HATE CRIME: FIRST PERSON

In light of the recent post-COVID hate crimes on Asians worldwide, I’m re-posting this original blog published on Xanga.com on January 29, 2004. I was…

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How I Made a Feature, a TV Series and a Documentary Film While Staying COVID-Free During the 2020 Pandemic Lockdown

As the world is slowly coming out of the Coronavirus pandemic, I want to spend a little bit of time reflecting on last year, 2020….

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Game the Short

Why GameStop and AMC? To traditional Wall Streeters and investors, investing in two possibly dying companies seems silly. But for someone like me who has…

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Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival to Feature LGBTQ Showcase

The nonprofit organization ​Chinese in Entertainment ​today announced a showcase of four LGBTQ-themed short films selected for the ​2021 Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival LGBTQ…

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Wayne Lo Discusses Life Incarcerated During COVID

Wayne Lo has been a friend of mine since I first met him close to a decade ago through his art, who speaks from his…

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Yosifu by Kristina Yang

Recently, I received an email from a Yale student asking me to talk to a prospective Yale student Kristina Yang about my filmmaking and grad…

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An Aspiring Kenyan Actor in China

24 years old, Dennis Mirii Kinyanjui was originally from Mwingi, a town in Kenya. He arrived last November in Shenzhen to study filmmaking and Chinese….

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