Author: Quentin Lee
Who is Kuya Brandon Lee?
A Guest Post by Melissa Reyes and Faye Lacanilao Brandon is a close friend of ours from San Francisco State University. We both met him…
Bee Vang on Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino and Being Hmong
CHOPSO’s Quentin Lee and Koji Steven Sakai interviewed actor Bee Vang, the breakout star of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. When making Gran Torino, Bee was…
Raymond Ma on “I Don’t Have a Phone”
Raymond Ma is a veteran actor who has appeared in more than 130+ films and television shows. I was fortunate enough to work with him…
Comedy Dynamics Nabs “Please Notice Me” from Brash Girls Club’s Star Kim McVicar and Creator Quentin Lee
Comedy Dynamics has picked up worldwide distribution rights to Please Notice Me, the upcoming comedy special starring Canadian comedian Kim McVicar to be produced by Brash Girls…
#metoo, Dr. Dennis Kelly
Last Thursday, I was driving my 3-year-old son to preschool around 7 am listening to NPR news as usual. I heard an interview with a…
Comedian Leah Mansfield on Nukes, Being Native and Coming Out
Comedian Leah Mansfield, Sue Limsukonth and I got together this morning to record an episode for Slanted View podcast, but alas, out of my complete…
Betty Ouyang on Her First Film “Father’s Day”
Betty Ouyang’s directorial debut “Father’s Day” just premiered in streaming on CHOPSO. We did an interview with the upstart Asian American actress and filmmaker on…
Hong Kong Mon Amour (or the Twice Cooked Immigrant)
The most heartbreaking moment in my life was when I was eleven my parents came home in Hong Kong and said that we had to…
Sartthar Tharchai’s Delicious Thailand
When location scouting in Bangkok, my friend Thomas Nahm (Production Supervisor on Netflix’s Street Food and Chef’s Table) introduced me to a young filmmaker Sartthar…
Chinese Imperialism: Japanese American Got Punched by Chinese Attorney for Saying “Taiwan is independent” in America.
Yesterday, my friend Oki, a Japanese American film archivist living in Los Angeles, got punched by a (Mainland) Chinese national who was an attorney while…
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