Chocolate Rap, Hip Hop Movie from Taiwan

Hi guys, check out Chocolate Rap, this hip hop / breakdancing movie from Taiwan. I've been trying to get it seen. Here's the trailer:

It's directed by my friend Chi Lee in Taiwan. The film features some pretty cool dancing sequences. Hopefully it will find some distribution in Hong Kong. Below is the Behind the scenes/Making-of:Feel free to msg me if you have any questions about the movie. The official site is chocolaterap.com.

You Belong To Me

Last month while I was in San Francisco jurying the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival up there, I had the opportunity to watch Sam Zalutsky's excellent first feature You Belong To Me. It was on the top of my list after watching 16 features in one week, but somehow we ended up giving the award to another more "festival" film.

A suspenseful and haunting thriller set in New York City, ...Read more

Sicko Rules

I just came back from watching SICKO. What a great film! I was writing in the morning and then went to get some lunch. I passed by the movie theater and thought I should go check it out. But I was also thinking Geez it would be two hours off the middle of the day... should I or should I not?

In the back of my mind, I was also afraid that I would be co...Read more

The Unofficial Case of Lee vs. Brody

A little after midnight on May 22, I received a call from my cousin Crystal Lee, a graduating senior at San Francisco State. She told me that she was planning to forgo her plan of going to China the coming year because of a small bump that might impede her from being the Class of 2007.

She told me that she was flunking out of a class taught by Michal Brody, a lecturer in the E...Read more

Back to L.A.

I flew back to L.A. this morning and am missing Vancouver already. I really enjoyed my time up there... a nice weekend to getaway and chill. I am especially grateful for my dad, stepmom, Andrew, Joel, Byron and Raymond being at the screening and hanging out with me over the weekend. I'm also grateful for my aunt Irene and uncle LC for always putting me up at their place.

Half of my family is in Vancouver, and the other half in Hong Kong. I hope to make a film in Vancouver one day.

Now back at work in the city of angels...Read more

Screening Night

(My dad Robert, me, Byron Mann and my stepmom Audrey)

It was a fun night of screening where my dad came with my stepmom Audre. Byron Mann and Raymond P just happened to be in Vancouver for the screening. Andrew Ooi also came. I sat through the whole screening with the audience and the reponse was surprisingly positive considering that 0506HK was such a personal piece of work. The audience stayed for the Q...Read more

Hello Vancouver!

I got up to Vancouver Thursday morning on an 8AM flight, which meant I had to get up at 5:30AM to drive to the airport. It was so exhausting. I crashed for a few hours after and then met up with a friend for a bite.

I'm pretty excited to be up here for tonight's world premiere of my documentary 0506HK at the Vancouver International Film Center:

http://www.viff.org/tixSYS/vifc/filmguide/event.php?EventNumber=1338

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Welcome to my page

Hello everybody,

I just want say hi to everyone. I'm a filmmaker based in L.A., Vancouver and

Hong Kong. It's great to be on AliveNotDead.com.

Currently, my documentary 0506HK, my personal documentary about Hong Kong,

will be on the festival circuit. I hope you guys will check it out when it

screens in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival.

I'll be staying in touch here, so holler back anytime =)