Why?

So this graduate student working on a thesis about ethnic pageants contacted me about the film.   She watched it this is her response:

Hello Ms. Shapiro--

I have finally had a chance to watch your video and it is fantastic!

I appreciated the different (and competing) narratives. Thank you so

much for sending it to me. I will definitely be citing it in my

dissertation (I just don't know how just yet). I found the focus on

race particularly interesting. Was that really obvious when you were ...Read more

Girl! (High Five Slap)

That's what Ale...Read more

San Diego Asian Film Fest Oct. 12th

Very excited about the film screening at the San Diego Asian Film Festival on Sunday October 12th 3:30p! http://sdaff.bside.com/2008/films/yourstrulymisschinatown_sdaff2008

  I have always heard it's a fun festival and so Alex Tieu (Associate Producer) and I are going to road trip it down for the weekend! She missed the sold out screening in LA so this will be her first time seeing it. The response after the LA sh...Read more

New Film

Hello everyone, heretofore is my first blog entry AnD. 

Just wanted to thank Patrick Lee and Terence Yin for coming to the June 3rd Los Angeles premiere of a feature film documentary I produced entitled YOURS TRULY, MISS CHINATOWN.  I been associated with Patrick Lee and Stephen Wang for quite a number of years when I was an strategic advisor to w...Read more

Opening Blog

PRESS

RELEASE   

World Premiere of " Yours Truly, Miss Chinatown" at the Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival on May 3rd

Feature documentary paints intimate portraits of the women behind the icon on the fiftieth anniversary of the Miss Chinatown pageant.

(Hollywood) –  " Yours Truly, Miss Chinatown," a feature documentary five years in the making, will debut at the Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival, the most prestigious festival of its kind in Southern California,...Read more

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