Charlotte Sometimes Writer/director Eric Byler has a heart to heart talk with AsianConnections' Lia Chang on being marginalized as an Asian American man, the hornet's nest of sexual politics, and why Asian men are angry with Asian women.

Charlotte Sometimes writer/director Eric Byler has a heart to heart talk with AsianConnections' Lia Chang about feeling marginalized as an Asian American man, why Asian men are angry with Asian women and a hornet's nest of sexual politics.

I met with Eric the morning after I screened Charlotte Sometimes at the Asian American International Film Festival at the Asia Society.

Staying at his friend's apartment, he's a bit behind schedule. In fact, he is just stepping out of the shower. Wavy brown hair, six feet tall, with eyes the hue of dark chocolate, my first glimpse of him is wrapped up in a towel. Bathed in natural window light, Eric bares his soul and opens up about love, loneliness, passion and his new projects.

Nominated for two 2003 Independent Spirit Awards and hailed by Roger Ebert as a breakthrough film for Asian American filmmakers, Byler's impressive feature debut

Check into Mike Kang's The Motel when it unspools at the Film Forum in New York on June 28, 2006

Check into Mike Kang's The Motel when it unspools on June 28th, 2006 in New York at the Film Forum.

Puberty sucks, and nobody knows it better than 13-year-old Ernest Chin (Jeffrey Chyau). As he watches guests come and go, Ernest finds himself forever stuck at his familys hourly-rate motel, where he divides his time between taking orders from his overbearing mom, cleaning up after whatever miscreants the motel may attract and longing for the girl of his dreams, 15-year-old Christine (Samantha Futerman, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA). When Sam Kim (Sung Kang, BETTER LUCK TOMORROW) checks into the motel, fatherless Ernest is taken under his wing and hustled toward manhood, for better or worse. Winner of the Humanitas Prize at Sundance, this honest portrayal of adolescence, from the producers of ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW and THE GOOD GIRL, is heartful and hilarious.

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