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Emily Rios, Michelle Farrah Huang, Verton Banks, Nicholas Olbina, and Savannah Schoenecker (Left to Right in Photo) have joined the cast of the LGBTQ+ independent feature The Queerdos, which will be distributed internationally by Italy’s film sales outfit, The Open Reel. The Queerdos marks the feature film debut of writer and executive producer Sandra Grace, alongside award-winning director Jenifer Yeuroukis.

2024 Canadian Screen Award winning filmmakers Quentin Lee and Cindy Au Yeung warmly invite musicians from around the world to submit hip hop dance tracks for potential synchronization and master licensing placement in the film. While we are unable to offer a licensing fee, selected contributors will receive on-screen credit in the film’s end credits and be featured in related publicity and marketing opportunities.

Last year, Colette Johnson-Vosberg’s Unusually Normal world premiered at Inside Out. This year, she is world-premiering her LGBTQ+ follow-up feature doc Unlabelled about three trans people from Toronto at the same festival. I caught up with my prolific collaborator after hearing the news of her film’s world premiere.

Professional dancer and choreographer Viet Dang has launched a groundbreaking new venture titled Guided Dance Meditation—a pioneering movement and television series that blends dance, meditation, and wellness. CHOPSO sat down with Viet, also known as MoOon, to talk about his latest creative endeavor. Catch an exclusive six-episode series of Guided Dance Meditation—streaming FREE now on AAM.tv!

Stand with Mahmoud Khalil!

On Sunday, March 2, I was enjoying a glass of champagne and popcorn while watching the 2025 Oscars show with my family. Conan O’Brien began with a polite greeting in fluent Spanish, followed by something in Hindi… and then proceeded to speak gibberish Chinese.

CHOPSO discovered a young Seattle-based comic Adam Tiller and we have interviewed him for the New Year about his upcoming shows.

When I first landed in San Francisco in 1988 to go to school at Berkeley, I wasn’t planning on staying. Perhaps around Junior Year, after I came out as queer and then started identifying with Asian Americans, as most of my friends were… I thought that I might want to stay… but I didn’t know how.

If Bram Stoker gave birth to the vampire in literature, then Nosferatu gave birth to the vampire in cinema. Nosferatu is the first vampire who protagonized cinema in 1922 during the silent era, the very beginning of cinema. F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) distinguishes itself from Bram Stoker’s classic by asserting love and eroticism, rather than violence, defeats the vampire and its evil.

CHOPSO interviewed Yong Yoon who is releasing his first feature In the Land of the Blind that he made while still at UCLA Film School in the 90s for the first time to the world. In the Land of the Blind streams today via AAM.