Year of the Fish

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Is about a rotoscope-animated modern-day Cinderella story set in the underbelly of New York's Chinatown.

Plot
An optimistic young girl travels alone to New York City where she hopes to earn money to send home to her ailing father. Expecting work in a beauty salon, the girl is instead delivered into the hands of her father's distant cousin, an embittered woman who runs a seedy massage parlor. The girl surrenders her passport as collateral for her "debt" and is informed of her duties.

Cast
Tsai Chin
Randall Duk Kim
Ken Leung
Hettienne Park
Lee Wong


Detail Info
Directed by David Kaplan
Writers
Screenplay: David Kaplan
Produced by Janet Yang, Rocco Caruso, David Kaplan
Music by Paul Cantelon
Genres Kids/Family and Animation
Running Time 1 hr. 36 min.
Release Date August 29th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Gigantic Films
Production Co. Caruso-Mendelsohn Productions
Produced in United States

Ping Pong Playa

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Christopher "C-dub" Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player. Blaming genetics for his failure to make the NBA, C-dub lives at home, works a dead-end job, and squirms in the shadow of his older brother, Michael, a doctor and ping pong champion.

With a family-run store devoted to all things ping pong and a mom who teaches it at the local Chinese Community Center, the Wangs' entire world revolves around the sport. But despite the family legacy, C-dub opts to spend his free time playing video games and daydreaming about get-rich quick schemes with his best friend JP Money.

C-dub is kicked back into reality when his mom and Michael are hurt in a car accident, leaving his father to watch over the store and forcing C-dub to take over his mom's ping pong class of misfits. C-dub starts to appreciate the benefits of ping pong when he starts using the class to make some extra money on the side and befriending one of the kids who happens to have a beautiful older sister. But when the Wang family livelihood is threatened by a rival ping pong player's attempts to lure the kids away, C-dub begins to take things more seriously. With the National Golden Cock Tournament coming up and an injured Michael unable to defend his title, C-dub must become the player he pretends to be and defend his family's ping pong dynasty.

Cast
Jimmy Tsai
Andrew Vo
Khary Payton
Jim Lau
Roger Fan
Elizabeth Sung
Javin Reid
Kevin Chung
Peter Paige
Smith Cho
Scott Lowell
Stephnie Weir

Detail Info
Directed by Jessica Yu
Produced by Anne Clements, Joan Huang, Jeffrey Gou
Written by Jimmy Tsai, Jessica Yu
Music by Jeff Beal
Cinematography Frank G. Demarco
Editing by Zene Baker
Distributed by IFC Films
Release date(s) September 5, 2008
Running time 96 min.
Country United States
Language English, Chinese

External Link
Official Website

Ping Pong Playa - Trailer

Ping Pong Playa Q&A Session at SFIAAFF

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