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Production has wrapped on “Asian Persuasion,” a New York Asian tale of a down-on-his-luck chef who cooks up a scheme to marry off his ex-wife in an attempt to escape substantial alimony and child support obligations, before realizing that he wants a second chance. Featured actors include Black Eyed Peas’ Apl.de.Ap, Yam Concepcion (“Nightshift”), Janice Sonia Lee (“Emily the Criminal”), Ami Sheth (“Most Beautiful Island”), Rachel Alejandro (“Ang Larawan”), Fe Delos Reyes (“Lumpia with a Vengeance”), Joyce Keokham (“Denture Adventure”), comedian Rex Navarrete (“Badass Madapaka”), Imani Hanson (“An Angry Boy”), Devin Ilaw, Renee Rogoff (“Carma”), Mairin Lee (“Marcy”), Hamilton’s Marc delaCruz, Raw founder Josh Kesselman, CaliStar, and Tony Labrusca. It was directed by Jhett Tolentino from a script by Mike Ang and is now being edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong. Production is by Jhett Tolentino Productions banner in association with Brooklyn-based Planet X Studios.
France-based Cyber Group Studios...
Production has wrapped on “Asian Persuasion,” a New York Asian tale of a down-on-his-luck chef who cooks up a scheme to marry off his ex-wife in an attempt to escape substantial alimony and child support obligations, before realizing that he wants a second chance. Featured actors include Black Eyed Peas’ Apl.de.Ap, Yam Concepcion (“Nightshift”), Janice Sonia Lee (“Emily the Criminal”), Ami Sheth (“Most Beautiful Island”), Rachel Alejandro (“Ang Larawan”), Fe Delos Reyes (“Lumpia with a Vengeance”), Joyce Keokham (“Denture Adventure”), comedian Rex Navarrete (“Badass Madapaka”), Imani Hanson (“An Angry Boy”), Devin Ilaw, Renee Rogoff (“Carma”), Mairin Lee (“Marcy”), Hamilton’s Marc delaCruz, Raw founder Josh Kesselman, CaliStar, and Tony Labrusca. It was directed by Jhett Tolentino from a script by Mike Ang and is now being edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong. Production is by Jhett Tolentino Productions banner in association with Brooklyn-based Planet X Studios.
France-based Cyber Group Studios...
- 6/15/2022
- by Patrick Frater and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
“Come Here” is a rather strange film, since it has no specific narrative to speak of, as it functions more like a collage of episodes, in black-and-white, that begin in Kanchanaburi, in the west part of Thailand, but are not limited there.
Come Here is screening in Electric Shadows Letters from Panduranga © Nguyen Trin Thi
As the “story” begins, four friends in their mid-twenties arrive in the area to check the memorial site of the ‘Death Railway’, built to honor tens of thousands war prisoners who lost their lives here, and the local museum, which they find, though, closed. At night, back at the impressive raft house they have rented, they drink, smoke weed, talk, and have as much fun as possible, occasionally even mimicking sounds of animals. Soon, it turns out that they are all actors in a theater company, acting out scenes from a play. Eventually, fireworks go off,...
Come Here is screening in Electric Shadows Letters from Panduranga © Nguyen Trin Thi
As the “story” begins, four friends in their mid-twenties arrive in the area to check the memorial site of the ‘Death Railway’, built to honor tens of thousands war prisoners who lost their lives here, and the local museum, which they find, though, closed. At night, back at the impressive raft house they have rented, they drink, smoke weed, talk, and have as much fun as possible, occasionally even mimicking sounds of animals. Soon, it turns out that they are all actors in a theater company, acting out scenes from a play. Eventually, fireworks go off,...
- 9/3/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
European film festivals were always hospitable to experimental cinema from Asia, and this year’s Berlinale proves the fact in the most eloquent way. “Come Here” is a rather strange film, since it has no specific narrative to speak of, as it functions more like a collage of episodes, in black-and-white, that begin in Kanchanaburi, in the west part of Thailand, but are not limited there.
Come Here is screening on Berlinale
As the “story” begins, four friends in their mid-twenties arrive in the area to check the memorial site of the ‘Death Railway’, built to honor tens of thousands war prisoners who lost their lives here, and the local museum, which they find, though, closed. At night, back at the impressive raft house they have rented, they drink, smoke weed, talk, and have as much fun as possible, occasionally even mimicking sounds of animals. Soon, it turns out that...
Come Here is screening on Berlinale
As the “story” begins, four friends in their mid-twenties arrive in the area to check the memorial site of the ‘Death Railway’, built to honor tens of thousands war prisoners who lost their lives here, and the local museum, which they find, though, closed. At night, back at the impressive raft house they have rented, they drink, smoke weed, talk, and have as much fun as possible, occasionally even mimicking sounds of animals. Soon, it turns out that...
- 3/3/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Cedric Cheung-Lau’s The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me characterizes landscape in a way that almost seeks to anthropomorphize it. Its central characters, Tukten, a young Nepali man on his way to Dubai and Hannah, an elderly Australian woman traveling on her own, cross paths while traveling in opposite directions on the Annapurna mountains. Their relationship is fleeting, but the Nepali mountain range holds a heightened command of the narrative. Taking great influence in part from the dreamscape style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Editor Aacharee Ungsriwong speaks about the creative nuances of the film. Filmmaker: How and why did […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Cedric Cheung-Lau’s The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me characterizes landscape in a way that almost seeks to anthropomorphize it. Its central characters, Tukten, a young Nepali man on his way to Dubai and Hannah, an elderly Australian woman traveling on her own, cross paths while traveling in opposite directions on the Annapurna mountains. Their relationship is fleeting, but the Nepali mountain range holds a heightened command of the narrative. Taking great influence in part from the dreamscape style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Editor Aacharee Ungsriwong speaks about the creative nuances of the film. Filmmaker: How and why did […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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