As many of you already know, we’ve launched a new film initiative entitled INTERPRETATIONS to support aspiring filmmakers. In a nutshell, you make a short film of no more than 3 minutes using the same script we provide (get all the info here). To help us launch, we commissioned several filmmaker friends to make their own shorts using our script and we’ll be featuring each one of them (including a few words from the filmmakers themselves) over the course of the next two weeks.
We start with Far East Futura by Evan Jackson Leong and featuring the boys from Far East Movement (look for a future Guest Offender blog from them):
FILMMAKER’S STATEMENT:
We wanted to find a theme consistent with FM’s contemporary style and look, while at the same time finding a way to incorporate the lines. In this case the interpretation was a collaboration of many different elements. What is the setting? Are they in the future? Are they in a spaceship? What are they even doing? Who knows, its up to YOUR interpretation.
EVAN
Evan Jackson Leong is a 6th generation Chinese American native of San Francisco, California. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s Degree in Asian American studies. As a short form filmmaker he has directed numerous music videos, commercials, shorts that have played on MTV in the domestic and international markets. As a long form documentary filmmaker, he has directed two half hour nationally broadcast projects: Him Mark Lai: The People’s Historian and Forging a Feature: The Journey of Better Luck Tomorrow. In his growth as a young filmmaker he has been mentored by Justin Lin with various credits in Better Luck Tomorrow, Fast and Furious 3 and as a co-producer on Finishing the Game. He currently completed a feature length documentary, 1040, which explores the happenings of Christianity in Asia.
For more information on how to get involved with INTERPRETATIONS, click here.
You can also see the commissioned shorts on our YouTube Channel. Not all the films are up yet so keep your eye out for new ones and subscribe to our channel be the first to see them all.
Can’t wait to see what Evan’s next big project is
[...] merchandise brand, created the concert series ‘International Secret Agents’ with Far East Movement, and had their work accepted to many film festivals including the 2008 Cannes Film [...]
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[...] Evan Jackson Leong is a 6th generation Chinese American native of San Francisco, California. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s Degree in Asian American studies. As a short form filmmaker he has directed numerous music videos, commercials, shorts that have played on MTV in the domestic and international markets. As a long form documentary filmmaker, he has directed two half hour nationally broadcast projects: Him Mark Lai: The People’s Historian and Forging a Feature: The Journey of Better Luck Tomorrow. In his growth as a young filmmaker he has been mentored by Justin Lin with various credits in Better Luck Tomorrow, Fast And Furious 3 and as a co-producer on Finishing The Game. He recently completed a feature length documentary, 1040, which explores the happenings of Christianity in Asia. Evan also directed the boys from Far East Movement in the INTERPRETATIONS commissioned short, Far East Futura. [...]
[...] PANELISTS Elaine Chin is an independent producer based in L.A. and one of the founding bloggers at YOMYOMF which is launching INTERPRETATIONS. Currently, Elaine is based in Los Angeles, developing and consulting on film projects with writers and directors as Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow, Fast & Furious), Stephen Chin (Gummo, Another Day in Paradise), and Eric Lahey (Century Plaza, Spoons – Sundance Lab 2007) and serves as an adjunct professor at UCLA Extension’s Entertainment Studies Certificate Program and National University’s M.F.A. Program at the School of Media and Communication. She was previously a Director of Development and Production at HBO and 20th Century Fox where she worked on such films as Angels in America, The Notorious Bettie Page and Mongol. Evan Jackson Leong is a 6th generation Chinese American native of San Francisco, California. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s Degree in Asian American studies. As a short form filmmaker he has directed numerous music videos, commercials, shorts that have played on MTV in the domestic and international markets. As a long form documentary filmmaker, he has directed two half hour nationally broadcast projects: Him Mark Lai: The People’s Historian and Forging a Feature: The Journey of Better Luck Tomorrow. In his growth as a young filmmaker he has been mentored by Justin Lin with various credits in Better Luck Tomorrow, Fast And Furious 3 and as a co-producer on Finishing The Game. He recently completed a feature length documentary, 1040, which explores the happenings of Christianity in Asia. Evan also directed the boys from Far East Movement in the INTERPRETATIONS commissioned short, Far East Futura. [...]