Vancouver Panic

I should have blogged earlier, but the cold in Vancouver finally caught up with me. I was way under the weather after the fabulous festival ended. It felt like homecoming being up there with Shopping for Fangs opening the festival 10 years ago. Justin Lin was back with Finishing the Game opening the fest, and my doc. 0506HK closed i...Read more

Costume or bathrobe?

My friend put on a costume which he called "International Man of Leisure" before we went out for Halloween in West Hollywood. From the time when we were at dinner to the streets of West Hollywood, people kept saying, "Is it a costume?" Or is it just a bathrobe?

I guess my friend's concept is that he wants to dress up as someone who goes to the spa every day and doesn&...Read more

Last Day in Tokyo

I stopped in Tokyo for 3 days after leaving Hong Kong. As I was just getting to know the city, I had to leave.

(Nagi left, Iri right)

My last day began with a meeting with Iri and Nagi, two young women who run the Asian Queer Film & Video Festival in Japan. I was grateful for them as they were the first people who showed a feature of mine in...Read more

Faces of HK Indie Film

Indie filmmaker Vincent Chui ( Fear of Intimacy, Leaving in Sorrow) hosted a BBQ yesterday on the roof of his Sai Kung fl...Read more

Taping with Kam Kwok Leung & Wing Shya Party

I woke up and finally felt my jet lag was over. In the afternoon, I went to RTHK and did a taping session with Kam Kwok Leung, someone I've looked up to since I was a kid. I felt very honored to be interviewed by him... and it was probably one of my best interviews in Cantonese. He really knew how to steer me in the right direction of the conversation. The interview will play this Sunday at 11:30PM on RTHK 1's Read more

Racist Desperate Housewives?

On last week's episode of "Desperate Housewives," Susan's (Terri Hatcher) gynecologist tells her that she might be hitting menopause. Susan replies:

"Can I just check those diplomas? Because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines."

Does Hatcher's comment denigrate the contributions of Filipino American medical professionals? You be the judge:

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More Premiere Pictures

Thanks to Eric Lowe who just gave me the pictures he took on the 10/04 premiere of 0506HK:

Teddy Chen, Patrick Lee, Kaiu Choy, Quentin Lee & Kam Kwok Leung introduce 0506HK before the screening.

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A Fab Premiere & Party

A great thank you to the AnD crew for making both the screening and the party a success. It was a full house at the screening and the party was packed at Yumla. Kam Kwok Leung, Teddy Chen, Norm Yip, Amos Why, Bryan Chan, Yan Leung of Ying E Chi, made it out to the sc...Read more

A Letter from Justin Lin

Aleluya, Justin!!!! <

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Supporters:  

FINISHING THE GAME, our new independent film, has been an opportunity to revisit our indie roots and reunite with many in the BETTER LUCK TOMMOROW family.  The challenges of making a no-budget film are harsh and demanding, but at the same time, it is filmmaking in its purest form.  Clearly, passion on the part of the cast and crew made this film possible.  Now we are hoping to share FINISHING THE GAME with you as it comes o...Read more

Eastern Promises

As I'm getting ready to leave L.A., I cannot but make time to watch one last movie here, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. It's a masterfully made thriller about the intersection of a half-British-Russian midwife played by Naomi Watts and Russian mobster/hitman played by Viggo Mortensen.

I've been a DCronenberg fan since I was a teenager watching his earlier horror works like ...Read more