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An Evening with Greg Pak
Tuesday, April 13th
7 pm
$5
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An Evening with Greg Pak, Director of Robot Stories
Locus Arts and the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) present a night of short films by Greg Pak, award- winning writer and director. The night will open with a reception for his highly anticipated award-winning first feature film, ROBOT STORIES, starring Tamlyn Tomita and Sab Shimono, which will open in San Francisco theaters on Friday, April 16th, 2004.
Winner of over 23 awards, "ROBOT STORIES" is science fiction from the heart, four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers, and digital immortality.
The reception will be followed by the screening of Greg Pak’s short films “Asian Pride Porn,” “All Amateur Ecstasy,” “Fighting Grandpa,” as well as “The Robot Fixer,” a segment from “Robot Stories.” The audience will also have an opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with the filmmaker himself.
ABOUT THE FILMS: “Asian Pride Porn” (1999, 3 minutes) - A raucous infomercial spoof in which Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang hawks progressive pornography featuring smart Asian women and sexually empowered Asian men.
“All Amateur Ecstasy” (2001, 2 minutes) - Three women experience the most earth-shattering climaxes of their lives -- with a twist.
“Fighting Grandpa” (1998, 21 minutes) - A young filmmaker searches for evidence of love between his immigrant Korean grandparents. Gold Winner, Student Academy Awards Graduate Student Winner, Hamptons International Film Festival Television premiere on Cinemax.
“The Robot Fixer,” a segment from “Robot Stories” - Bernice Chin (Wai Ching Ho) has never really known her estranged son Wilson. Now a car accident has put Wilson into a coma. And the only clue he's left behind is a box of twenty-year-old toy robots. As her daughter Grace (Cindy Cheung) presses her to deal with Wilson's deteriorating condition, Bernice becomes obsessed with Wilson's toys, as if repairing the robots will help her connect with her unreachable son.
ABOUT THE ARTIST GREG PAK is an award-winning writer and director whose first feature film, "Robot Stories," starring Tamlyn Tomita and Sab Shimono, has won eight awards, including Best Feature Film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and Best Screenplay at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Greg's feature screenplay "Rio Chino" won the Pipedream Screenwriting Award at the 2002 IFP Market and a 2003 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship.
Greg's short film "Fighting Grandpa" has won twenty prizes, including a Student Academy Award, and has played in over fifty film festivals. Greg's comic shorts "Asian Pride Porn" and "All Amateur Ecstasy" are among the most viewed films at AtomFilms.com. His shorts "Mouse," "Po Mo Knock Knock," "Cat Fight Tonight" and "The Penny Marshall Project" have won awards and screened in dozens of film festivals around the world.
Greg was recently named one of 25 Filmmakers to Watch by Filmmaker Magazine. Greg studied political science at Yale University, history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and film production at the NYU graduate film program. More information on: www.gregpak.com
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Galeria De La Raza 2857 24th St @ Bryant San Francisco 415-309-3187 www.locusarts.org
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-309-3187 www.locusarts.org
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