This story first appeared in the April 24 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. When the curtain goes up at the Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 15 to 26 in Manhattan, one New York institution will pay tribute to another. Live From New York!, which promises a fresh look at Saturday Night Live, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, has been selected to screen as the opening night film. It's the first feature from Bao Nguyen, 31, a Vietnamese-American director who has helmed several short films and worked as a cinematographer on 2011's Saigon Electric. He accepted the challenge
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- 4/14/2015
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If someone had approached me a year ago and said, "Hey Josh, we're going to throw a film at you that involves Vietnamese B-boys dancing to save a community center and you're going to love it!", I would probably have laughed in their face. Yet, here we are. Stephane Gauger's Saigon Electric is exactly the film I described above. A competitive hip hop dance crew marches its way through numerous local dance-offs and, ultimately, an official contest in order to earn the cash to save a community center from being demolished. It sounds hokey as hell, but Gauger's got a talent for imbuing even the most formulaic of ideas with real emotion and building a solid story that will have you cheering at your screen,...
- 5/24/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Feature documentary prize-winner, "The House of Suh" by Irene K. Shim
As a member of the feature documentary jury for the La Asian Pacific Film Festival, Moving Pictures editor Elliot Kotek attended the awards ceremony for the 2011 installment of the festival, the 27th anniversary of the festival.
Held at the outdoor, seventh-floor courtyard of the Solair building at Western Ave and Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Laapff continued to honor courageous programming. With previous winners including the documentary “Last Train Home” (regarding the epic human migration around the Chinese New Year) as well as narrative features such as “The Taqwacores” (about Muslim punks in Buffalo), the 2011 festival found the jurors in near-unanimous agreements for each section’s best.
The big winners for each category were “Teamwork” (Best Short), “The House of Suh” (Best Documentary) and “Living in Seduced Circumstances” (Best Narrative Feature).
Having kicked off proceedings on April 28 with...
As a member of the feature documentary jury for the La Asian Pacific Film Festival, Moving Pictures editor Elliot Kotek attended the awards ceremony for the 2011 installment of the festival, the 27th anniversary of the festival.
Held at the outdoor, seventh-floor courtyard of the Solair building at Western Ave and Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Laapff continued to honor courageous programming. With previous winners including the documentary “Last Train Home” (regarding the epic human migration around the Chinese New Year) as well as narrative features such as “The Taqwacores” (about Muslim punks in Buffalo), the 2011 festival found the jurors in near-unanimous agreements for each section’s best.
The big winners for each category were “Teamwork” (Best Short), “The House of Suh” (Best Documentary) and “Living in Seduced Circumstances” (Best Narrative Feature).
Having kicked off proceedings on April 28 with...
- 5/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Feature documentary prize-winner, "The House of Suh" by Irene K. Shim
As a member of the feature documentary jury for the La Asian Pacific Film Festival, Moving Pictures editor Elliot Kotek attended the awards ceremony for the 2011 installment of the festival, the 27th anniversary of the festival.
Held at the outdoor, seventh-floor courtyard of the Solair building at Western Ave and Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Laapff continued to honor courageous programming. With previous winners including the documentary “Last Train Home” (regarding the epic human migration around the Chinese New Year) as well as narrative features such as “The Taqwacores” (about Muslim punks in Buffalo), the 2011 festival found the jurors in near-unanimous agreements for each section’s best.
The big winners for each category were “Teamwork” (Best Short), “The House of Suh” (Best Documentary) and “Living in Seduced Circumstances” (Best Narrative Feature).
Having kicked off proceedings on April 28 with...
As a member of the feature documentary jury for the La Asian Pacific Film Festival, Moving Pictures editor Elliot Kotek attended the awards ceremony for the 2011 installment of the festival, the 27th anniversary of the festival.
Held at the outdoor, seventh-floor courtyard of the Solair building at Western Ave and Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Laapff continued to honor courageous programming. With previous winners including the documentary “Last Train Home” (regarding the epic human migration around the Chinese New Year) as well as narrative features such as “The Taqwacores” (about Muslim punks in Buffalo), the 2011 festival found the jurors in near-unanimous agreements for each section’s best.
The big winners for each category were “Teamwork” (Best Short), “The House of Suh” (Best Documentary) and “Living in Seduced Circumstances” (Best Narrative Feature).
Having kicked off proceedings on April 28 with...
- 5/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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