Ping Pong Playa

PING PONG PLAYA in theaters Friday, Sept 5!!!

pingpongplaya — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:43:42 GMT

TAKEN FROM JIMMY TSAI'S BLOG HERE

EVERYBODY!!! CHECK IT: the new comedy from Oscar winner Jessica Yu - PING PONG PLAYA opens September 5th in SAN FRANCISCO, SAN JOSE, BERKELEY, LOS ANGELES, GLENDALE, ALHAMBRA, IRVINE a...

About the Film

pingpongplaya — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:15:00 GMT

Christopher "C-dub" Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player. Blaming genetics for his failure to make the NBA, C-dub lives at ho

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

pingpongplaya — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:14:00 GMT

I entered filmmaking through the world of documentaries. My films have dealt with disability, outsider art, and former extremists renouncing their violent pasts. The logical choice for a first narrative feature might have been – oh, I don’t know, may...

PRODUCTION

pingpongplaya — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:13:00 GMT

The origins for the original idea for PING PONG PLAYA essentially came from three different sources: 1) the character, Christopher “C-dub” Wang, as conceived by Jimmy Tsai in a series of web commercials; 2) the idea of a ping pong comedy by producer...

ABOUT THE CAST

pingpongplaya — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:12:50 GMT

JIMMY TSAI (CHRISTOPHER “C-DUB” WANG) Though technically a production accountant, Jimmy Tsai has been creating projects since his early teens, when the order of the day included everything from crime movie spoofs to commercials for the high school swim...

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

pingpongplaya — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:14:00 GMT

JESSICA YU (Writer/Director) Jessica Yu is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for BREATHING LESSONS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARK O’BRIEN, an intimate portrait of the writer who lived for four deca...