Exclusive: Veteran producer Stratton Leopold (Mission: Impossible III) and filmmaker Dax Phelan (The Other Side of the Wind) have teamed up to produce a new currently untitled limited series based on an infamous 19th-century prison escape known affectionately as The Catalpa Expedition.
Set in Ireland, the United States, and Australia during the 1860s and 1870s, the series will be based on the real-life plan members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a 19th-century republican group — made to free six political prisoners from a British penal colony in Western Australia while aboard the whaleship, The Catalpa. The writer, poet, and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly was among the political prisoners sent to a British penal colony in Australia.
The Whaling Ship, Catalpa.
Phelan will write the pilot episode and produce alongside Leopold and Eric M. Klein. Terence E. Groves (Jasmine), who first brought the idea to Leopold, will serve as executive producer along...
Set in Ireland, the United States, and Australia during the 1860s and 1870s, the series will be based on the real-life plan members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood — a 19th-century republican group — made to free six political prisoners from a British penal colony in Western Australia while aboard the whaleship, The Catalpa. The writer, poet, and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly was among the political prisoners sent to a British penal colony in Australia.
The Whaling Ship, Catalpa.
Phelan will write the pilot episode and produce alongside Leopold and Eric M. Klein. Terence E. Groves (Jasmine), who first brought the idea to Leopold, will serve as executive producer along...
- 3/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Golden Angel Awards ceremony in San Gabriel, California, was an occasion that kept politics in the foreground, but which simultaneously managed to downplay the frosty current state of U.S.-China diplomatic relations.
The awards event on Friday night also served as the opening ceremony of the 18th edition of the Chinese American Film Festival (Caff) and Chinese American TV Festival (Catf), annual events which showcase Chinese movies in the home state of American moviemaking.
After an elegant fashion show by Chinese womenswear brand Yu Tai Xiang, U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu took to the stage to speak about the upcoming midterm elections in the U.S., talk up Chinese-American history, and to rail against the recent rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S.
“We need the [U.S.] public to know that Aapi [Asian American and Pacific Islander] history is American history,” she said.
Caff organizer James Su laid down a similarly laudable message.
The awards event on Friday night also served as the opening ceremony of the 18th edition of the Chinese American Film Festival (Caff) and Chinese American TV Festival (Catf), annual events which showcase Chinese movies in the home state of American moviemaking.
After an elegant fashion show by Chinese womenswear brand Yu Tai Xiang, U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu took to the stage to speak about the upcoming midterm elections in the U.S., talk up Chinese-American history, and to rail against the recent rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S.
“We need the [U.S.] public to know that Aapi [Asian American and Pacific Islander] history is American history,” she said.
Caff organizer James Su laid down a similarly laudable message.
- 11/7/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
James Su (Su Che Hsien) was born in Taiwan, but lived in Beijing from 2011 until 2014. He got his Film Director degree (Mfa) from the Applied Media Arts School, National Taiwan University of Arts. His first film, “Hip Hop Storm”was awarded as “best documentary” in Taipei Golden Horse Award in 2010, which made James the youngest person to be awarded this. James directed a lot of Tvc and Short Films covering Taiwan and Mainland China markets. In 2019, he worked on “Summer”, a mainland China-Taiwan co-production long feature film and also for the first time created a short feature film, “Nine Shots”.
On the occasion of Nine Shots screening at Vienna Shorts, we speak with him about his career, the difference between feature and documentary, the film and the situation with immigrants in Taiwan, and many other topics
You were the youngest director to win a Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary.
On the occasion of Nine Shots screening at Vienna Shorts, we speak with him about his career, the difference between feature and documentary, the film and the situation with immigrants in Taiwan, and many other topics
You were the youngest director to win a Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary.
- 5/29/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
James Su has already made a name for himself, by winning the Golden Horse Award for best documentary for “Hip-Hop Storm”, being the youngest director to do so, at the age of 27. In 2019, he started working with feature films, shooting a full one, “Cordelia Scissors” and this particular short, “Nine Shots”, which is based on an actual case that took place in 2016, when a 27-year-old worker was shot 9 times after an altercation with the police.
Nine Shots is screening at Vienna Shorts
The story revolves around Ah Fei, a young Vietnamese who left his country to work in Taiwan, in an effort to earn more money to send back to his father. However, his boss exploits him and when he decides to leave, he ends up being an illegal worker. His life is hard and the only good times he experiences are those he spends with his friends on the beach.
Nine Shots is screening at Vienna Shorts
The story revolves around Ah Fei, a young Vietnamese who left his country to work in Taiwan, in an effort to earn more money to send back to his father. However, his boss exploits him and when he decides to leave, he ends up being an illegal worker. His life is hard and the only good times he experiences are those he spends with his friends on the beach.
- 5/28/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
With U.S.-China ties at an ever-sinking low, the Chinese-American Film and TV Festival pledged to improve communications between the two countries – at a Chinese-language-only press conference in Shanghai on Tuesday that had few foreigners present.
The event took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai International Film Festival. Most attendees who took to the stage seemed more intent on heaping praise upon James Su, the Chinese-American film festival’s chairman, through flowery references to Communist leaders than discussing how to actually strengthen ties between the world’s two largest film markets.
Su “really spent a lot of effort, painstaking care and honestly, a lot of money” to build up the festival, said one of a parade of leaders invited to express their gratitude for the event.
“He has a lot of money — don’t worry,” interrupted another speaker onstage, who had just delivered an ode of his own.
The event took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai International Film Festival. Most attendees who took to the stage seemed more intent on heaping praise upon James Su, the Chinese-American film festival’s chairman, through flowery references to Communist leaders than discussing how to actually strengthen ties between the world’s two largest film markets.
Su “really spent a lot of effort, painstaking care and honestly, a lot of money” to build up the festival, said one of a parade of leaders invited to express their gratitude for the event.
“He has a lot of money — don’t worry,” interrupted another speaker onstage, who had just delivered an ode of his own.
- 6/18/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Geraldine Viswanathan and Cedric the Entertainer get gigs, shooting starts on apocalyptic thriller “G.O.D.,” and immigrant story “Footprints of the Dragon” is in the works.
Castings
Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery and Utkarsh Ambudkar are set to star in romantic comedy “The Broken Heart Gallery.”
Viswanathan will portray an art collector who suffers a bad break up with her boyfriend, played by Ambudkar, who is also her boss at the Whitney Museum. She decides to curate The Broken Heart Gallery in the lobby of a hotel, operated by Montgomery’s character, and learns to love by letting go.
Natalie Krinsky is making her feature directorial debut and helming from her own script. Producers are No Trace Camping’s David Gross, Jesse Shapira and Jeff Arkuss along with Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen. Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey and Josh Clay Phillips of No Trace Camping are executive producing.
Castings
Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery and Utkarsh Ambudkar are set to star in romantic comedy “The Broken Heart Gallery.”
Viswanathan will portray an art collector who suffers a bad break up with her boyfriend, played by Ambudkar, who is also her boss at the Whitney Museum. She decides to curate The Broken Heart Gallery in the lobby of a hotel, operated by Montgomery’s character, and learns to love by letting go.
Natalie Krinsky is making her feature directorial debut and helming from her own script. Producers are No Trace Camping’s David Gross, Jesse Shapira and Jeff Arkuss along with Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen. Selena Gomez, Mandy Teefey and Josh Clay Phillips of No Trace Camping are executive producing.
- 5/9/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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