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THE PAPER TIGERS: Help Award-Winning Director Bao Tran Unleash His Kung Fu Comedy Beast!

It was back in 2015 that award-winning filmmaker Bao Tran graced netizens with an amazing original kung fu action shortfilm titled The Challenger. To that end, I got to achieve quite a bit in interviewing Tran and performers Andy Le and Unlucky Stars actor Ken Quitugua and assuredly, I can attest that this project has a much more prospective and grand reach. I’m talking feature film status with The Challenger, clocked at an energizing 8-minutes, serving as a narrative prologue toward Tran’s vision for the ambitious kung fu comedy, The Paper Tigers. With a tagline hailing “A Kung Fu Comedy That’s Woke AF”, Tran will direct from his own script which centers on Danny and his friends – two washed-up, out-of-shape kung fu brothers as they band together to reawaken their abilities and avenge their master’s mysterious death. Quitugua, who starred in Tran’s acclaimed action noir, Bookie in 2009 among […]

AWESOME ASIAN BAD GUYS Heads To CAAM This March!

Lee B. Golden III

Filmmakers and National Film Society co-founders Stephen Dypiangco and Patrick Epino are pushing the world premiere of the action comedy series, Awesome Asian Bad Guys to select audiences next month, courtesy of the Center for Asian American Media. The series arrives as the culmination of efforts by the two filmmakers who have been hard at work to raise funds and promotional means to produce an original comedic series paying tribute to iconic Asian film actors – most of who are known largely for their villainous roles in memorable films spanning the last three decades. Dypiangco and Epino, and series actor Dante Basco are attending the events which will be held at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas on March 20, and Oakland Museum of California on March 21. The series is produced by Diana Williams and screenwriter Milton Liu, also featuring performances by George Cheung, Al Leong, Randall Park, Yuji Okumoto, Tamlyn Tomita, […]