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Remembering Actor Clint Jung, Passing in 2021

On March 29, 2021, I found out that one of my first leading men Clint Jung from Justin Lin’s and my first feature Shopping for…

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Why They Defamed Me… a Cautionary Tale of Indie Filmmaking

On the night of Friday April 9, 2021 after coming home from dinner, I received a few e-mails from friends sending me screenshots of someone…

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Approves North Korea’s Single Dose COVID Oral Vaccine “Rocket X”

In an exclusive press release e-mailed to CHOPSO at midnight on April 1, 2021, former president Donald J. Trump told CHOPSO that he absolutely approves…

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Quentin Lee at the 2007 Vancouver Asian Film Festival
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In a Violent Country

As an immigrant in America, I was writing this article a few months earlier and I stopped writing because I felt like crying over spilled…

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HATE CRIME: FIRST PERSON

In light of the recent post-COVID hate crimes on Asians worldwide, I’m re-posting this original blog published on Xanga.com on January 29, 2004. I was…

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How I Made Three Comedy Specials During the 2020 Pandemic Lockdown

At the end of 2019, I had struck two distribution deals with Comedy Dynamics to distribute two comedy specials, Kim McVicar’s Please Notice Me and…

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How I Made a Feature, a TV Series and a Documentary Film While Staying COVID-Free During the 2020 Pandemic Lockdown

As the world is slowly coming out of the Coronavirus pandemic, I want to spend a little bit of time reflecting on last year, 2020….

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Comedy Dynamics Drops Ed Hill’s First Comedy Special Candy & Smiley

Comedy Dynamics drops Vancouver-based comedian Ed Hill’s first comedy special “Candy and Smiley” tomorrow Tuesday, March 2. Check out the trailer here: Ed Hill was…

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AAMV Fest Kicks Off Lunar New Year

After the January 12, 2021 streaming release of The Slants Collection, a retrospective of The Slants’ musical works including their Taiwan tour documentary on AsianAmericanMovies.com…

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Game the Short

Why GameStop and AMC? To traditional Wall Streeters and investors, investing in two possibly dying companies seems silly. But for someone like me who has…

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