Mike Kang, director of THE MOTEL is casting his next feature film, WEST 32ND.

Mike Kang, director of THE MOTEL is casting his next feature in New York. Here is his email blast from cyberspace:

As some of you know, I am prepping for my next film WEST 32ND. It is a film that takes place largely in Flushing and of course on West 32nd. The film is being shot in NYC from Aug 14 - Sept 22. We cannot afford to hire anyone who is not New York local.

I am calling on you now to help with a couple things:

1. LOCATIONS: We are looking for a couple locations to shoot as apartments for the main characters that live out in Flushing. Both should be modest traditional Korean apartments. The detail of having an actual Korean family's apartment in New York will add so much to the film's authenticity. I promise there are no crazy action scenes and the
crew is 100% professional and responsible. I will personally make sure everyone takes off their shoes when they come in. If you have family or know someone in Queens (Bayside, Elmhurst also work) that may be interested in letting us in, please let me know.

There is also a location fee provided. As well, we work in conjunction with The Mayor's Office of Radio Television and Film. And of course the production is fully insured.

If you have leads for locations, please write Teddy Yoon at

Judy Yung's Images of America: San Franciscos Chinatown Book Launches at SF's Chinese Historical Society of America

The Chinese Historical Society of America and author/historian Judy Yung launched Images of America: San Franciscos Chinatown (Arcadia Publishing, 2006) at a standing room only book signing event on August 12. The new pictorial book featuring more than 200 photographs spans more than 150 years of history of this vibrant community.

Drawing from private collections and public archives, the images and accompanying text and captions tell the historical and cultural story of the oldest and most famous Chinatown in the world. Photos illustrate how Chinatown existed simultaneously as a segregated ghetto, tourist attraction, cultural mecca, and a neighborhood where people live, work, shop and socialize. The book also features a street map listing key sites that are mentioned in the book, for a self-guided historic walking tour of Chinatown.

Dr. Judy Yung was commissioned by the Chinese Historical Society of America to write the pictorial history of San Francisco Chinatown. Dr. Yung is Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In addition to her new book San Francisco's Chinatown, she is the author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco .

San Francisco Chinatown is part of Arcadia Publishings

Don't Miss Georgia Lee's RED DOORS which opens in New York on September 8th at the Angelika and ImaginAsian Theaters

Dear Friends,

I am writing to you today because RED DOORS is opening theatrically in New York on September 8 and we urgently need your help!

The first weekend box office determines if a film will sink or swim. Independent films like ours are left to fend for themselves each and every week. RED DOORS is currently scheduled to open in three cities: New York (Sept 8), San Francisco (Sept 22), and LA (date TBD). The opening weekend numbers in New York will determine how wide and how long our film lives.

RED DOORS is a dark comedy about the Wongs, a dysfunctional Chinese- American family coming of age in New York. The film has been described as AMERICAN BEAUTY meets JOY LUCK CLUB .

RED DOORS was an incredibly difficult film to get made. In the financing stages, studio execs who loved the script wanted us to make the Wongs a Caucasian family, or make the lesbian couple heterosexual, in order to have more commercial potential. So Jane, Mia, and I made RED DOORS on our own terms: completely outside of the Hollywood system. We raised our own financing, maxed out our credit cards, and called in favors in order to create our labor of love.

Needless to say,