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I Am Mahmoud Khalil #standwithMahmoudKhalil

Stand with Mahmoud Khalil!

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Conan O’Brien’s Gibberish Chinese on the 2025 Oscars Broadcast Was Racist #OscarsSoRacist

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.

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Interview with Young Seattle Comic Adam Tiller

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

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The Accidental Immigrant

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.

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10 (Ten) Super (Revolutionary) Vampire Movies #Nosferatu

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.

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Interview with Yong Yoon, Director of In the Land of the Blind

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.

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Posted in Culture Interview Tech

Creating Zombiclaus Shot by Shot

On the eve before the world premiere of Zombiclaus (2024), a 35 seconds short film fully created with AI by filmmaker Quentin Lee, CHOPSO discusses the genesis of Zombiclaus with the writer, director and producer who made the film all by himself via AI technology

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5th Annual Yale in Hollywood Fest Drops Trailer on Youtube

Dropping the trailer on Youtube today, Yale in Hollywood Fest will launch their fifth edition global virtual film festival streaming free to the world from…

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Posted in Entertainment Fresh Fear

Fresh Fear October 2024 List

Each year, Fresh Fear recommends 10 horror features—new, classic or rarely seen—available now on streaming to binge for Halloween! Here’s our October 2024 list…

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FREE WORLD PREMIERE of Barbara Kayee Lee’s SING MY SONG Documentary Feature in Toronto on October 9, 2024

As the Executive Producer of Barbara Kayee Lee’s documentary feature Sing My Song, I would like to cordially invite you to the FREE WORLD PREMIERE on October 9, 2024, at 7 pm in Toronto.

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