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January 10, 2008

"Where's my movie?!?!"

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (If it hasn't already lost its luster and it's not passe to say.)

With all the holiday commotion in the ocean and catching the waves past us, I can finally get back to revamping the film. I've been working on it here and there, but at most, it's been a new "cutting" experience.

As I've mentioned in our last blogger episodes, in order to tell "That Asian Thing" story at a better scale, I had to go back to the cutting board. This entailed going back into the raw footage we have on file and cutting things I may have missed or grabing footage that relates better to the flow of the story. Obviously this is time consuming. However, it did help me re-live in the moment that was happening at that time.

In retrospect, I was there filming and not knowing what I was getting myself into. I was basically adding to a bigger picture that wasn't in focus yet. Now that I have a plan of attack and a stronger story to tell, I was now watching what I filmed and wished I had moved the camera to a different spot, or wished I had followed-up on something, or wished I knew the technical aspect that would be played into post production. Yet, I dare not regret anything and take any sort of challenge head on!

Right now, my target date is to be complete before March. I have a few film festivals that I want to enter in mind.

Also - if you're all about support - please don't hesitate to keep passing info unto others. I greatly appreciate it! One of the key factors to the root of my movie as to why there's a low impact of Asian-Americans in mainstream American culture is lack of support. And yes my friends, this even comes from the Asian-American community itself. I must admit, that even I can't go to every Asian-American community event we have here in Chicago. However, I do bring up events in conversation and email people in my close network of friends to go. We need to keep on pushing!

I just wanted to do my monthly chime and say that we're still alive. Thanks y'all!

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