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‘97 Roundtable Roundup

  • October 4, 2009 7:24 pm

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One of the more enjoyable things about growing old is you get to talk about and revisit the past. And usually you get to pick and choose what you want to revisit. I had the opportunity to catch up with everyone from our ‘97 experience this past weekend but it was way too short. Part of it is that we haven’t seen each other in years. And if it were 1997 we’d be hanging out til the sun came up. But it’s 2009 and I gots a baby at home so it was bye bye by 11. Thank you Quentin and Koji at ID Fest for setting this up. Thank you Martin for moderating. And thank you everyone for taking your Saturday night out to hang with us. If you’re interested, Eric posted the discussion on his Giant Robot podcast.  Good times…

Class of ‘97

  • October 2, 2009 1:48 am

About a month ago I got a call from my good friend Quentin that our little indie film SHOPPING FOR FANGS from back in the days was going to be screening at a film festival as part of its retrospective series along with Rea Tajiri’s STRAWBERRY FIELDS, Michael Aki and Eric Nakamura’s SUNSETS, and Chris Chan Lee’s YELLOW.
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The four films have since been dubbed by some as the “Asian American New Wave of 1997″.

To me it was a point of entrance into something I never thought I’d get a chance to be a part of and since then has played a huge role in shaping my perspective as not only as a filmmaker but as a person. So I thought it would be interesting to get in touch with the gang twelve years later and ask them what they took away from the experience.  Read more...