Crazy Rich Asians queen Gemma Chan, A-Major and M88 are partnering with podcast media studio Qcode for a table-read of Hold Still, Vincent which is based on the tragic, true events of Vincent Chin’s murder.
Written by Johnny Ngo, directed by twin brothers Aaron and Winston Tao and produced by Bash Naran, the team is eyeing turning this podcast into a feature film.
The story of Vincent Chin is often overlooked in American history. In fact, a lot of anti-Asian racism is overlooked in American history. This particular true story is set in the summer of 1982 in Detroit. Chinese American engineer Vincent Chin was living the American dream until one night when he was assaulted at a bar and killed by two white, disgruntled autoworkers, four days before his wedding. The two white men thought he was Japanese and blamed him for stealing their jobs. They murdered him.
Chin...
Written by Johnny Ngo, directed by twin brothers Aaron and Winston Tao and produced by Bash Naran, the team is eyeing turning this podcast into a feature film.
The story of Vincent Chin is often overlooked in American history. In fact, a lot of anti-Asian racism is overlooked in American history. This particular true story is set in the summer of 1982 in Detroit. Chinese American engineer Vincent Chin was living the American dream until one night when he was assaulted at a bar and killed by two white, disgruntled autoworkers, four days before his wedding. The two white men thought he was Japanese and blamed him for stealing their jobs. They murdered him.
Chin...
- 4/8/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat 39 years ago, a galvanizing incident for the modern Asian American civil rights movement but an event that has been lost to history for most outside the community.
No longer. As the nation finally awakens to the violence that Asians continue to face in this country, Chin’s story — his killers never served jail time for the slaying — is receiving fresh attention and soon can be experienced in narrative form via Hold Still, Vincent, a feature screenplay penned by Johnny Ngo.
Gemma Chan, A-Major Media and M88 are coming together to ...
No longer. As the nation finally awakens to the violence that Asians continue to face in this country, Chin’s story — his killers never served jail time for the slaying — is receiving fresh attention and soon can be experienced in narrative form via Hold Still, Vincent, a feature screenplay penned by Johnny Ngo.
Gemma Chan, A-Major Media and M88 are coming together to ...
Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat 39 years ago, a galvanizing incident for the modern Asian American civil rights movement but an event that has been lost to history for most outside the community.
No longer. As the nation finally awakens to the violence that Asians continue to face in this country, Chin’s story — his killers never served jail time for the slaying — is receiving fresh attention and soon can be experienced in narrative form via Hold Still, Vincent, a feature screenplay penned by Johnny Ngo.
Gemma Chan, A-Major Media and M88 are coming together to ...
No longer. As the nation finally awakens to the violence that Asians continue to face in this country, Chin’s story — his killers never served jail time for the slaying — is receiving fresh attention and soon can be experienced in narrative form via Hold Still, Vincent, a feature screenplay penned by Johnny Ngo.
Gemma Chan, A-Major Media and M88 are coming together to ...
On Thursday, CAA kicked off the month of April with the CAA Amplify Town Hall to address the surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans. These acts of violence and harassment have been at the forefront in the past week with the Atlanta shootings and the most most recent attack in New York City, where a man brutally beat 65-year-old Vilma Kari while saying racist remarks. The graphic attack can be seen in video footage — but what’s even worse is that the footage shows people witnessing the attack and not doing anything to help her.
The CAA Amplify Town Hall presented an opportunity for the Asian community in Hollywood and allies to speak about their experiences; to voice their concerns, and to offer some semblance of hope that could help bolster action. More importantly, it offered a platform for a community that has been silent for years to speak out.
The CAA Amplify Town Hall presented an opportunity for the Asian community in Hollywood and allies to speak about their experiences; to voice their concerns, and to offer some semblance of hope that could help bolster action. More importantly, it offered a platform for a community that has been silent for years to speak out.
- 4/1/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In the wake of the Atlanta spa murders last week, in which several Asian women were killed by a white man, John Oliver devoted the opening segment of Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight” to the topic of anti-Asian racism. According to the group Stop Aapi Hate, there have been more than 3,795 hate-related incidents against Asians in America during the past year, a stark number that spiked on the heels of former president Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric against China, which he blamed for the coronavirus. But while the messaging from the White House has changed since President Joe Biden took office, Oliver did reject Biden’s statement last week when he called hate crimes against people of Asian descent “un-American.”
“To say that they are ‘un-American’ – I would love to visit the nation that exists in Joe Biden’s head,” Oliver said. “Because it’s a place where racism is...
“To say that they are ‘un-American’ – I would love to visit the nation that exists in Joe Biden’s head,” Oliver said. “Because it’s a place where racism is...
- 3/22/2021
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
On March 16, a white man traveled to three Atlanta area spas and took the lives of Soon C. Park, Hyun J. Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong A. Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiajoie Tan and Daoyou Feng. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver wasted no time in jumping into this story — starting with how Captain Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said the aforementioned white man who killed these eight people — six of them were of Asian descent — was struggling with a sex addiction and was at the end of his rope. Apparently, all of this was the result of a “bad day”, basically sympathizing and humanizing a white man who went on a shooting spree.
“Absolutely, f*cking not,” said Oliver in reaction to footage of Baker’s press conference. “You get that this is a press conference about mass murder, right? You don’t...
“Absolutely, f*cking not,” said Oliver in reaction to footage of Baker’s press conference. “You get that this is a press conference about mass murder, right? You don’t...
- 3/22/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
I worry a lot about my parents these days.
It used to be the other way around; they’d be the ones nitpicking at me, always finding something to fuss about whenever I visited home. It used to drive me up the goddamn wall: Why have you decided to waste your life on acting? Why don’t you get a real job, or go to law school or something? Are you still drinking that nasty diet soda? Did you eat dinner today? Seriously Simu, not too late for law school!
Now, much to their chagrin, the tables have turned and I am the one who worries: Did you hear what happened to the Thai American man who was out on his morning walk? Do you know what’s happening out there? You have to stay away from people!!!
I fear for my parents’ safety because of a virus, although perhaps...
It used to be the other way around; they’d be the ones nitpicking at me, always finding something to fuss about whenever I visited home. It used to drive me up the goddamn wall: Why have you decided to waste your life on acting? Why don’t you get a real job, or go to law school or something? Are you still drinking that nasty diet soda? Did you eat dinner today? Seriously Simu, not too late for law school!
Now, much to their chagrin, the tables have turned and I am the one who worries: Did you hear what happened to the Thai American man who was out on his morning walk? Do you know what’s happening out there? You have to stay away from people!!!
I fear for my parents’ safety because of a virus, although perhaps...
- 3/11/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a moment early in Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987), Christine Choy’s documentary about the murder of Chinese-American Vincent Chin by two white Detroit auto workers, in which several auto workers sit around a bar and talk candidly about their jobs being outsourced to Asia. They may be losing their jobs but at least, they contend, it is because there exists in America, unlike in Asian countries, a just and immutable right to good treatment and fair wages, and that would never change. More than thirty years later, American Factory documents the arrival of Chinese Fuyao Glass America (Fga), a Chinese-based automotive glassmaking company, into a disused Gm plant just outside of Dayton, Ohio. American Factory marks a return for directors Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar to the same plant they filmed for The Closing of a Gm Plant (2008), except the tables have turned: American workers now work for...
- 8/26/2019
- MUBI
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