Here’s another installment of Arowana Friday, where every Friday we feature either a brand new or an old video we’ve done in the past and give it the back story just for you guys. Today we want to feature “Local Politician” made in 2008 during the CRAZY election times.
The San Diego Asian American Film Festival was having a video contest “Reel in the Vote” to see if someone could make a 30 second PSA to help encourage Asian Americans to vote. Of course, every election there was always an issue of Asian Americans never having a voice because we never bothered to vote. (we, as in the younger generation) With Obama and Hillary running for Democratic Election and then the Presidency, there was an obvious need for us Asian Americans to REPRESENT! So we decided to send a message to HIT very hard to that target audience, young Asian Americans who just don’t give a f@%$! And so this video was then created by that inspiration. Read more...
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Hey everyone, we have a special treat today. An EXCLUSIVE interview with Alex Tse, writer of the upcoming movie Watchmen for you. This movie is getting CRAZY hype due to its popularity as a graphic novel, court cases of studios fighting for rights, and having the director of 300, Zack Snyder at the helm. I guess the only question is should this be watched on IMAX for the full experience? Well…YEAAA!!!!
For those in the San Francisco area, writer Alex Tse will be speaking March 14th on a panel during the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. Go out and meet the local boy from the Bay. It’ll be def an experience worth checking out, seriously. We’ll be there for sure!!! Another movie to def check out at the festival too is FRUIT FLY, H.P. Mendoza’s new indy musical film. Read more...
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The Lonely Island consisting of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone has single handedly made Saturday Night Live great again. Have you seen Jizz in My Pants. Yeah these guys made another one and we finally found out about this video last night. Warning, lots of adult language to follow.
Tonight we will be premiering our latest webisode project MAN FROM NORTH KOREA at the Visual Communications event, Monday Nite @ VC. We are very excited to share our work and see what the response will be. This project has been a test of our true indy, gritty, guerrilla style production. With the labor of love, passion and also our actor/friends willing to come together to help us, we are hoping for a great night. Of course everyday we go at this, we feel we are still growing and learning as filmmakers. But we can’t learn anything without putting stuff out and getting honest responses. Read more...
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Last Friday was Conan O’ Brien’s last show on the Late Late Night. He moves to Jay Leno’s position on the Tonight Show, huge news in the late night community. We always remember watching Conan’s crazy antics and funky fresh air. It was even a sad moment when Andy left the show. It should be interesting having Conan move from New York to Los Angeles. Many critics say that since the 11:30pm slot is a huge move, its time for Conan to “grow up”. Honestly, we hope he doesn’t!
Here are some highlights of the last 16 years of the Late Late Night with Conan O’Brien
In this week’s installment of Arowana Friday we’ll be checking out a piece that was shot a few years ago as the intro for the indy movie, “Finishing the Game“. “Finishing the Game” is a mockumentary directed by Justin Lin where it explores the time when Bruce Lee unexpectedly past away leaving his passion project “The Game of Death” unfinished. There was heard to be about 15 minutes of footage that Bruce Lee did shoot with the fighting scenes going up the pagoda and fighting villains like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in his famous yellow jump suit. When “Enter the Dragon” was a worldwide hit in the box office, studios knew they had to cash in on Bruce’s unfinished project, “The Game of Death” (damn money grubbin studios)… So “Finishing the Game” is a mockumentary about the casting call to see who would fill the shoes of Bruce Lee for “The Game of Death”. Make sense… Read more...
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Times like these where the economy is hurting more than A-Roid’s Hall of Fame ballot, every penny counts…literally. LA Times has a blog announcing the new look of the PENNY to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday anniversary.
The penny with Abe on it came out in 1909 to celebrate his 100th bday and now its time for his 200th. Interesting though, with the price of zinc and copper going up, each cent made actually cost 1.4 cents to make. Isn’t that kinda on the retarded side to spend more money than what it’ll be worth especially at a crucial time like this. Anyways, most people probably don’t give a damn about pennies loose in their pockets but maybe with these cool new looks (like how the nickel is), it’ll be fun to have. Ever wonder if banks clean money like in a washing machine. Maybe old pennies wouldn’t look so black. Read more...
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This Saturday in LA there’s this dope concert you shouldn’t miss out on. The 9th Annual Kollaboration at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Kollaboration has been showcasing many up and coming artists in the Asian Pacific Islander (API) American community (gotta be PC). If you have never heard of Kollaboration, you should definitely take a peek. Performs like songwriter Jane Lui, hip hop violinist Paul Dateh, songwriter David Choi, four-sista pop group Jazmin, and my new fav songwriter Kina Grannis will be performing. Along with special guest performances by Kaba Modern and Fanny Pak. You go API! And also International Superstar BOA. We’ve never heard of you, but you must be badass with a name like that. Read more...
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So a bunch of readers have been asking us what that count down timer is for on the right side of Arowana Life home page. Well Visual Communication, the non profit organization who puts on the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival every year in LA, has asked us Arowana Films, to speak at their upcoming Monday Night filmmakers round table February 23rd. Of course we couldn’t refuse… as long as there is free food.
From what we were told by the moderator Walt Louie, a great friend to us, he will be conducting the panel discussing about indy film making, surviving in the industry, and just shooting the shit, sort of speak. Everyone is invited to join us. I don’t think there’s any entrance fee. Just open minds and please, laugh at all our jokes. Jk. Well not really. But it should be an interesting event. Read more...
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