NEW YORK (Dec 19, 2011) — Liquid Comics and Tiger Hill Entertainment today announced the launch of the first four episodes in a 13 episode animated web series from acclaimed filmmaker, John Woo (Mission Impossible 2, Face-Off, Red Cliff).

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Jack Soo

The Center for Asian American Media has a mission to bring the stories of Asia and Pacific Islander communities to light. It is introducing four new dynamic titles to its film collection.

Each of the four new films will be released this November. They will each be paired with a related pre-existing title from the CAAM film collection to better illuminate the multifaceted Asian and Asian American experience.

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(L-r) JOHN CHO as Harold, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS as NPH and KAL PENN as Kumar in New Line Cinema’s and Mandate Pictures’ comedy “A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Photo by Darren Michaels)

John Cho and Kal Penn reprise their title roles in “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas,” which picks up six years after their last adventure. The film opened nationwide on Nov. 4 and should run through the holiday season.

Following years of growing apart, Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar’s door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold’s house ends with the “high grade” contents — and Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree — going up in smoke.

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The APACL short-animated film in online on YouTube.

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 10, 2011) — The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, has unveiled an animated video short to inform the general public about the exploitation of immigrant workers here in the United States.

The informative, animated short is based on the true-life harrowing story of 72 Thai laborers who were held captive and forced to work 18-hour days for many years in a Southern California sweatshop.

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Pushing the Pen
By SAYMOUKDA VONGSAY
AAP staff writer

An interview with whom Governor David A. Paterson and the State of New York has honored for his “legacy of leadership to the Asian American community and the Empire State” in May 2010, Taiyo Na is a singer, songwriter, MC and producer.

Taiyo has studied at the world renown Robert X. Modica’s Acting Studio at Carnegie Hall, has dropped two albums Love is Growth (2008) and Home: Word (2010) a collaborative sonic tome with California-based Hip Hop duo Magnetic North, and has performed with Maya Angelou and Janice Mirikitani before he was of legal drinking age.

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Kristina Wong’s comedy often spoofs everyday life. She has paraded around San francisco’s Chinatown in a “Miss Third-Runner-up” pageant queen’s outfit; has spoofed an over-educated graduate student’s presentation at an arts conference; created a fake Asian mail-order bride website, and here she pokes fun at the formal glamour photo that never seems to go out of style. (Contributed photo)

By SAYMOUKDA VONGSAY
AAP staff writer 

Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based powerhouse renaissance woman who writes, acts, educates, and makes films among other monumental endeavors.

Wong is a recipient of the Creative Capitol Award for Theater, a PEN USA Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, and a Creation Fund from the National Performance Network to create her solo-show, “Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

She has written essays for Playgirl Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, the anthologies Yell-oh! Girls and Catching a Wave, and has contributed to numerous online publications.

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The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is happy to announce our Call for Entry for the 4th annual underground film festival hosted at the Minneapolis Collage of Art & Design. The submission deadline is October 21st and late deadline is open till November 4th for an additional fee, check website for more details.

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Pepin, WI—The 4th Annual Flyway Film Festival announces the exclusive “Flyway Gala” opening night party and awards ceremony at the Lake Pepin Art & Design Center, October 20, 2011. The Flyway Gala, an extravaganza of food, libations and entertainment, as well as the formal presentation of the Festival awards (designed by nationally recognized local artist David Culver), is a must-attend event for film professionals, art and music aficionados and anyone who truly appreciates independent film.

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Beau Sia (Photo courtesy of Eyad Zahra)

By Saymoukda Vongsay
AAP staff writer

Beau Sia, author of A Night Without Armor II: the Revenge, is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, alumni of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and an actor who has appeared in the films, “Slam, SlamNation”, “The Manchurian Candidate”, “Hitch”, and “Rachel Getting Married” alongside Anne Hathaway.

Most recently Sia worked on Los Angeles-based East West Players’ Hip Hop musical production, Krunk Fu Battle Battle, penning the lyrics to a play written by Qui Nguyen of Vampire Cowboys Theater fame.

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Lionsgate Home Entertainment released the comedy The Last Godfather to DVD Aug. 9, a spoof film about the mafia from Korean comedic superstar Hyung Rae Shim, who wrote, directed and stars in the film which takes place in America and also features American actors such as Harvey Keitel and Jason Mewes, among others.

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