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Thank you! On behalf of manja.org, our community co-presenters, and the cast and crew of Charlotte Sometimes, thank you all for coming out last weekend to pack a 600 seat theater on Opening Night! Check out some words of thanks from Eric and the cast. Also: answer Eric Byler's 5 questions for a chance to win a Charlotte Sometimes full-size movie poster. Breaking news Catch director Eric Byler and cinematographer Robert Humphreys again this Friday, May 16th at Opening Night in Berkeley as well as on Saturday, May 17th. Eric and Robert will be at both the 7:15pm and 9:15pm screenings on those dates. The film will be opening at the Oaks Theater @ 1875 Solano Ave in Berkeley. Check out the screening times If you'd like to learn more about promoting Charlotte Sometimes, join the Bay Area Charlotte Sometimes Street Team! Better yet, download and print these flyers and give them to your friends and co-workers! (Flyers in PDF format: San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose) Get connected Thoughts on Charlotte Sometimes? Got a question we didn't get to during the Q/A? Throw down in our Charlotte Sometimes Forum. Also, if you'd like to hear more about Asian American arts events in San Francisco, sign up on our manja.org mailing list: Get involved
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Thank you! Huge thanks to director Eric Byler, cast members Michael Idemoto, Jacqueline Kim, Eugenia Yuan, Kimberly-Rose, cinematographer Robert Humphreys, and executive producer Michael Kastenbaum for joining us on Opening Night. Thanks to our local APA artists who helped us celebrate Opening Night: DJ Doboy, DJ MercuryBonez. Thanks also to our community co-presenters for their support: Bay Area Pau Hana, Hyphen Magazine, Korean American Coalition, San Francisco Chapter, and NAATA. Thanks to our volunteers for helping to make the event a success: Dave, Mitzi, Earl, Christine, Evan, Anne, David, Stephanie, Helen, Tina, Jennifer, Roland, Sarah, Chris and Yuki. Also, thanks to everyone on the Charlotte Sometimes Bay Area Street Team, and to Drink Club and Tribeca for their support in promoting the film. Special thanks to Larsen and Associates, Regal Cinemas, Small Planet Pictures, and Vision Box Pictures for their assistance and support. Special thanks to photographer Albert Chau for documenting the event; Julie Song for her fantastic work in pulling together another great event; and to Dot Restaurant for hosting the party. Most of all, thank YOU for coming out to support a great film! If you'd like to learn more about sponsoring future events like this, or are otherwise looking for ways in which to invest in the Asian American arts, please contact us and let us know you're interested. Stay tuned We're co-presenting the upcoming June 7th Hyphen Magazine Launch Party, featuring DJs Neil Armstrong (The 5th Platoon), DJ Derrick D (Triple Threat DJ Media), DJ Mike Nice (Wordlife Promotions), and DJ Arrow (Youth Fiyah Sounds). We'll have more details available soon on manja.org. Also, check out the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center's United States of Asian America Festival, which wraps up at the end of the month. Finally, don't forget about upcoming events from our co-presenters. Got a question? Contact us. OUR SPECIAL GUESTS ERIC BYLER
Kenji's Faith awards include: "Best Amateur Entry" Canadian International Annual Film Festival, "Best Scenario" Canadian International Annual Film Festival, "Best Experimental Entry" Chicago International Film Festival, "Judges Award" New Orleans International Film Festival, "Director's Choice Award" Thomas Edison "Black Maria" Film Festival, "Best of Festival" Montreal Underground Film Festival, "Certificate of Regional Achievement" the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. MICHAEL IDEMOTO
The success of Sunsets lead to Idemoto's next acting / filmmaking gig-- the 1998 compilation feature O.B.I.T.S. He directed a 30 minute segment of the film, titled "America 0 of 30: Letters to Wendi," and starred in a 20 minute segment, Breezes directed by Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow). As the tortured Las Vegas hit man dodging assassins in hope of a final rendezvous with a newfound friend, Idemoto established himself as one of the most intriguing figures in Asian American independent cinema. JACQUELINE KIM
Her television roles include celebrated guest appearances on "E.R.," "West Wing," and "Xena: The Warrior Princess." She recently completed In Search of Cezanne, where she starred and shared writing credit with two-time Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Allan Miller. In an inventive blend of cinematic styles, Jacqueline stars as a documentary filmmaker taking an odyssey into the realms of the life of French painter Paul Cezanne. EUGENIA YUAN
Eugenia recently starred in "Three," directed by Peter Chan (Comrades: Almost a Love Story, The Love Letter) with cinematographer Christopher Doyle ( Chungking Express), and performed a supporting role in Miramax's My Name Is Modesty, based on the comic book, "Modesty Blaise." MATT WESTMORE
Matt debuted on the small screen in the international success, Baywatch. This led to recurring roles on Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach, CBS' Pensacola Wings of Gold, and SCI- FI's Invisible Man. On the big screen, Matt stars in Shakedown opposite Ron Perlman, scheduled for release this December. Other starring roles include Hard as Nails for Concorde-New Horizon, Southside opposite Brian Austin Green. Matt, in association with Keri Selig's Intuition Productions, is attached to executive produce and appear in the bio-pic, The Westmore's of Hollywood. Attached to write the pic is Oscar Winner Marshall Brickman ( Annie Hall). KIMBERLY-ROSE
Some of her favorite roles are, Carol in Mamet's Oleanna, Desdemona in Goodnight Desdemona Goodmorning Juliet, and Jennifer in Night Sky, performed at the Odyssey Theatre. DJ DOBOY Although he's a Bay Area resident, DJ Doboy is a member of the hip-hop DJ crew 5th Platoon which is based out of NYC. While learning to mix by dj'ing parties in college, Doboy became more interested in scratching and competition DJ'ing and quickly shifted his focus to the art form now known as "turntablism." Doboy has won several regional competitions across the country and was a finalist in both national and international competition during the DMC and ITF DJ battles in the late 90s. Along with his fellow crew members, Doboy tries to showcase the turntable's capabilities beyond it's traditional uses in mixing. While promoting the turntable as an instrument and musical composition tool in its own right, 5th Platoon has also been known to rock parties with their mixing skills. DJ DOBOY MercuryBonez (Michael Cheng) began DJ'ing back when he was just a lad in high school. At that time he was enjoying the high point of new wave music. This was his first introduction to electronically produced beats. Soon after, he began to find an interest in house music and was rocking those tunes out in the clubs. However, things for him were really turned on their head when he met DJ DoBoy of the Fifth Platoon and was schooled on turntablism. Ever since then he has been absorbing as many techniques and skills in scratching as his brain can hold. Innately he also began developing a greater appreciation for hip hop music through his edification in turntablism. Then one day, the monotony of house music overwhelmed him and drum + bass music stole his heart. To this date he is still in love with drum + bass music, and that's where the connections began with Dhamaal. MercuryBonez has rocked out various clubs in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Ithaca. |
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Eric Byler grew up in Hawaii and California before graduating with high honors from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. His short film Kenji's Faith premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win six festival awards, as well as a nomination for "The Student Academy Awards" sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." His digital feature "Charlotte Sometimes" premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2002, where it received the Audience Award for First Films Narrative. Theater directing credits include "Texas" & "Laughter Joy & Loneliness & Sex & Sex & Sex & Sex. Eric's father is of European descent; his mother is Chinese American.
Charlotte Sometimes marks the return to the big screen for actor/filmmaker Michael Idemoto, and the follow-up to two breakout performances that jump-started the Asian-American independent film movement in 1997 and 1998. Idemoto was born in Freedom, CA where he made a collection of short films on Super 8 film starting at the age of 16. His camera experience paid off in 1997 with the release of Sunsets, the acclaimed Asian American feature film directed by Idemoto and "Giant Robot" front-man Eric Nakamura. With a celebrated festival run and a renegade visual style, Sunsets is best remembered for Idemoto's charismatic performance as a college-bound criminal roaming the streets of a California farming town.
Jacqueline Kim attended the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago and performed in Chicago and New York before becoming a company member at the prestigious Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Her theater roles include several of the
greatest heroines of the classical stage, including Sophocles' Electra, Nina in the "Seagull," and Cordelia in "King Lear." Jacqueline's feature films include Brokedown Palace, Volcano, Disclosure, Star Trek: Generations, The Operator and The Hollywood Sign.
Eugenia Yuan has guest-starred on various television shows including "NYPD Blue", "Martial Law", "Arrest and Trial", and "Beverly Hills 90210." Her film credits include independent features, a cable feature for Asia, and martial arts films in Hong Kong. She trains in various forms of martial arts, and ijing to train with her teachers there.
Matt Westmore breaks new ground as an actor in a legendary family of makeup artists. Born and raised in Los Angeles to an Indonesian mother and a father of English descent, Matt began his acting career when he was 5 years old at the Redlands Bowl performing in Madame Butterfly and the Magic Flute. He continued his interest in theater at the Shrine Auditorium working alongside Peter Horton and Kathryn Hays in South Pacific. Matt put acting aside while at Arizona State University, where he was a defensive back on the football team.
Hawaiian born Kimberly-Rose began her acting career under the watchful eye of Linda Johnson at Mid- Pacific School of the Arts the only magnet school in the Pacific dedicated to the arts. She recently graduated from The School of Theater at University of Southern California and has continued her training at The Howard Fine Acting Studio. Kimberly's has performed in 14 plays, written 3 and directed 2. She has also been in various film projects, including Eric Byler's short film Kealoha, and his feature Charlotte Sometimes.
