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Remembering John Lennon

  • December 8, 2009 12:21 am
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Countless words have been written about John Lennon over the years so I don’t really think there’s anything new or profound I can add.  I was just a kid in elementary school when he died exactly 29 years ago so I was too young to really understand his impact and why his death hit people so hard.  I grew up listening to the Beatles so the music was a part of my life from my earliest memory and of course it was great.  But it wasn’t until I was much older before I understood that the Beatles and John Lennon, in particular, was about more than just awesome music.

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.