What have I been upto these past few weeks?

    Hello, last time I mentioned I was going to explain to you my journey following James Hong at the AFI premiere of "Hollywood Chinese"... Well, it was amazing! The doc. was great! Arthur did a wonderful job and it was nice to see all the legendary Chinese American Artists on the red carpet like Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, Nancy Kwan, Amy Tan. Lisa Lu, Collin Chou, George Cheung and Arthur Dong. I believe I saw Kelly Hu in the audience as well. But the best part was the after party, dancing with James Hong to Saturday Night Fever and seeing all his fans waiting for him to sign autographs. We had late dinner with James and his family plus George Cheung and KW Hong decided to join us too. It was the night to remember! I'll put up pictures later. Nov. 9th was the red carpet for "The Savages" and coming from Orange County to LA on a Friday night was a nightmare! We got there late but I was able to harass Orlando Bloom to wave 'hi' to our camera :-D To my surprise there were a lot of Asian female fans with flowers and signs, not for Orlando but for a newcomer actor Purba Rgyal in "Prince of the Himalayas". I got to interview the young hot star and the director Sherwood Hu as well. That sure made my day! Instead of seeing "The Savages" I decided to watch "Prince of the Himalayas". I was curious on how they can pull off this version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"? But to my surprise, they did. As an editor myself, the editing was a little bit choppy but overall it was a well-done film. Saturday, I decided not to work and just sit back and enjoy the movies! I saw the documentary "Please Vote for Me" which was recommended to me by my cameraman. Very interested concept about democracy in a third grade classroom set in CHINA! It has great humor, charm and realism. "Margot at the Wedding" was my next film. There was nothing Asian relating to this film but it was conveniently at the right time after my late lunch. If you like character driven films, this is for you! The whole casts were amazing which stars Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The last film of the night was "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" and I was not aware that Kathleen Luong (Green Dragon) was in this movie. It is nice to see her on the big screen again. The movie reminded me of my past life all squeeze into one day but without the crazy boyfriend and sex! During the Q&A I saw my Viet posse Tim Bui and Cathy Uyen in the audience they came to support Kathleen. We went to the after party but I only stayed for a little bit. It was time to party at Nancy Kim's birthday party. For those of you who were in Hawaii, Nancy Kim was the cool Festival Coordinator. We had to give our love to Nancy! The rest of the week was work! The fun stuff is only 1% of being an Artists; the rest is work, work, work! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Next time I'll tell you my adventure of going to Dustin Nguyen's house with more of the Viet Posse and partying with the Bui brothers (Filmmakers of Three Seasons, Green Dragon and Powder Blue)! Peace!