The 24th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is underway even as we chat! Check out the official website for shows and screening times.

From Arthur Dong's newsletter:

We premiere in Manhattan today to great reviews (see below), and your help is critical now to show New York that HOLLYWOOD CHINESE can make it in the Big Apple.

SPECIAL SCREENING: Meet Tony Award winning playwright and HOLLYWOOD CHINESE cast member David Henry Hwang in person for post-screening Q & A, Sunday, May 4. See below for details.

Thanks to all for your support -- your E-blasting and word of mouth has and will continue to make a difference!

Arthur

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STARTS IN MANHATTAN MAY 2, FRIDAY:
QUAD CINEMA
13th St. btw 5th & 6th Aves.
212/255-8800, Advance Tickets: 777-FILM #636
Daily @ 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:35, 8:25, 10:10

DAVID HENRY HWANG IN PERSON: Chat with Tony Award-winning playwright and HOLLYWOOD CHINESE cast member David Henry Hwang in person for post-screening Q & A, May 4, Sunday, 2:50pm screening only. Limited seating, advance tickets advised!

"A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of cultural assimilation. Its impressive bonanza of interviewees and film clips make it a joy to watch...Disarmingly lofty from the get-go, HOLLYWOOD CHINESE tackles its topic with visual grace and narrative agility." --Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York

"HOLLYWOOD CHINESE documentary won't make you hungry an hour later! Beautifully captures the range of Hollywood's reflection of Asians, from Charlie Chan, who talked in fortune cookie aphorisms, to Susie Wong, the exotic prostie you ordered, with egg drop soup, from column B." --Michael Musto, Village Voice

"A welcome entry in the constituency-cinema canon, HOLLYWOOD CHINESE surveys a century's worth of Chinese-American actors and filmmakers, visionaries and dragon ladies, kung fu excellence and Fu Manchu insult, Oscar winners and cliché mongers...HOLLYWOOD CHINESE is a fine place to start understanding how, to paraphrase Charlie Chan, Representation like tea leaf in hot water: both need time for brewing." --Nathan Lee, New York Times

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:

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HELD OVER - 4TH WEEK IN SAN FRANCISCO!
4 Star Theater
2200 Clement St. @ 23rd Ave.
415/666-3488
Screening daily @ 2:40, 7:00, 9:00
http://www.lntsf.com/4-star_theatre

Here's a not-to-be-missed screening for Bay Area readers! "Curse of Quon Gwon," the first ever Asian American film will screen TONIGHT at 7:30 at the Renaissance Rialto. Click here for screening times and locations.

The 1917 silent film will have live musical accompaniment via Wurlitzer and will be followed by a screening of Arthur Dong's "Hollywood Chinese" documentary.

Pick of the week! Dontcha dare miss it!