Just a little over a week until INTERPRETATIONS: So You Really Want To Make Films?, our FREE, SOLD-OUT May 2 filmmaking panel taking place during the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival and we’re very happy and excited to announce the addition of even more cool folks to the event (see below). Even though it’s sold-out, there will be a number of rush tickets available the day of. So come on down and we’ll do our best to get everyone in.
One of the things we’ll be doing that day is launching INTERPRETATIONS, our new initiative designed to support our community of aspiring filmmakers (if you want to make films, that’s YOU!). We’ve commissioned a few filmmaker friends to make their own shorts to help us launch this initiative and we’ll be screening some of them at the panel. Three of the filmmakers will be on hand to say a few words about their work and INTERPRETATIONS:
Danny Pudi (star NBC’s Community)
Mora Stephens (director Conventioneers, winner of the Independent Spirit Awards’ John Cassavettes Award)
YOMYOMF’s own Iris Yamashita (Oscar-nominated writer Letters From Iwo Jima)
In addition, there will also be a special screening of YOMYOMF Films’ very first venture Car Talk Discussion, introduced by YOMYOMF’s Sung Kang (The Fast And Furious: Tokyo Drift) who stars. Even if you’ve already seen it online, come out and watch it on the big screen and hear what Sung has to say about it. See how enthusiastic he looks about it already:
All this on top of the previously announced panel of industry professionals:
Rowena Arguelles (Creative Artists Agency, agent)
Trevor Groth (Sundance Film Festival, Director of Programming)
Jeffrey Kirschenbaum (Universal Pictures, Executive Vice President of Production)
Dan Lin (Producer, Sherlock Holmes, Terminator Salvation)
Your MC for the event will be YOMYOMF’s Roger Fan (Better Luck Tomorrow) plus Justin Lin (director Better Luck Tomorrow, Fast & Furious) and all the L.A.-based Offenders will be in attendance so come out and meet the gang. We’ll try our best to make it fun and informative for everyone in attendance!
Check our Twitter and Facebook pages regularly for the latest updates. And if you can’t make it, but have a question for our panelists above, leave it here or email it to: mailbag@yomyomf.com. And no need to fret–we’ll have a full report from the event for those who aren’t there.
Thanks to Toyota for not only sponsoring INTERPRETATIONS, but the panel itself, allowing us to make it FREE to all.
Drat….would luv to go. Sounds very cool/exciting! Best wishes to all…
Also added: my fellow Offender Winston will be moderating the industry panel portion of the event.
Sung Kang looks like Korean actors Kim Nam Gil and So Ji Sub in that pic above. ^^ But, I believe Sung is already 40+ (?).
Peace, ahjussi.
Sung turns 70 this year. Or is it 75? Something like that.
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