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Tanuj Chopra
Tanuj Chopra is an American film-maker. His debut feature film '' Punching at the Sun'' (2006) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for the Humanitas Prize. He has directed Netflix web series Delhi Crime 2 whose first part was nominated for International Emmy Background Chopra was raised in Silicon Valley and obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Semiotics from Brown University in 1999. Chopra completed his MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) degree in film at the Columbia University School of the Arts in 2007, where he received the School of Art's Deans Fellowship and the FOCUS Film Fellowship. Career Chopra makes his films under his banner "Chops Films Short films Chopra's first student film project was entitled ''Hate Crime'' (1998), which he made in the summer of 1998. As an undergraduate at Brown University, Chopra also wrote, directed and produced ''Uljhan'', a ten-minute short film that played in festivals in New York and Los Angeles. In 2003, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punching At The Sun
''Punching at the Sun'' is a 2006 American drama film directed by Tanuj Chopra Tanuj Chopra is an American film-maker. His debut feature film '' Punching at the Sun'' (2006) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for the Humanitas Prize. He has directed Netflix web series Delhi Crime 2 whose fi ... and starring Nina Edmonds, Misu Khan and Hassan El-Gendi. Cast *Misu Khan as Mameet *Nina Edmonds as Shawni *Hassan El-Gendi as Uncle Sonny *Ferdusy Dia as Dia *Kazi Rahman as Parnav *Taran Singh as Ritesh *Mohammad Mirza as Sanjay *Rana Quraishi as Priti *Farhad Asghar as Satish *Raymond Vasquez as Tali Perez References External links * * American drama films 2006 drama films 2006 films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films {{2000s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Chen
Lynn Chen () is a Taiwanese-American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Vivian Shing in the film ''Saving Face (2004 film), Saving Face'', a role for which she won the "Outstanding Newcomer Award" at the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards. She writes the popular food blog The Actor's Diet. Chen was named a 2013 "New Change Agent" by ''Marie Claire''. Early life Chen was born in Queens, New York and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey. Her mother is an opera singer and father was the founding president of The Kunqu Society, Inc. She has one brother; he is also in the music field. Her parents came to America from Taiwan in the late 1960s. Chen attended Wesleyan University, where she studied Women's Studies and Music. Career Chen has appeared in Alice Wu's film ''Saving Face (2004 film), Saving Face'' as Vivian Shing opposite Michelle Krusiec (playing Wilhemina Pang, Shing's love interest) and Joan Chen. For her role in that film, she won the "Outstanding Newcomer Award" at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chee And T
''Chee and T'' is a 2016 American comedy film written and directed by Tanuj Chopra and starring Sunkrish Bala and Dominic Rains. Plot Cast *Karan Soni as Roger Raval *Noureen DeWulf as Shana *Dominic Rains as T * Rebecca Hazlewood as Monie *Asif Ali as Mayunk * Bernard White as Uncle Rob *Lynn Chen as Lindo Chong *Sunkrish Bala as Chee Release The film made its world premiere on June 2, 2016 at the LA Film Festival. Accolades The film won the Special Jury Prize for Comedy at the LA Film Festival and the Best Narrative Feature Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival The San Diego Asian Film Festival ( SDAFF) is an annual event organized by Pacific Arts Movement (formerly the San Diego Asian Film Foundation) that takes place every November in San Diego, California. Background SDAFF is the flagship event for .... References External links * * * {{rotten-tomatoes, chee_and_t American comedy films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. Tribeca was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival. Each year, the festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories. History The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and Craig Hatkoff, in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. The inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Asian Youth Action
South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit youth development organization in New York City. Although focused on South Asian youth, the group is secular and works with young people of all ethnicities. The group aims to provide academic support to youth, assisting with preparation for higher education and exploring careers in fields such as sports, the arts and STEM fields. They also work to improve leadership skills and identity development. History SAYA! was founded in New York City in 1996 by Sayu Bhojwani, who believed there was a significant lack in resources available to underprivileged youths. The group started as a small organization based in the basement of a church in Elmhurst, Queens, and grew in size to support a wider group in New York City. In 1998 the group began a school-based counseling program, aiming to help the social workers employed in these schools to become advocates for the South Asian students within the academic system. Two years late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile basin and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate. It has a population of around 49 million, of which 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city of Kampala. Uganda is named after the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country, including the capital Kampala and whose language Luganda is widely spoken throughout the country. From 1894, the area was ruled as a protectorate by the United Kingdom, which established administrative law across the territory. Uganda gained independence from the UK on 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer (born October 26, 1971) is an American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer and writer based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway". Iyer received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Grammy nomination, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. He was voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the ''DownBeat'' magazine international critics' polls in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2014, he received a lifetime appointment as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University, where he was jointly appointed in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies. Early life and education Born in Albany and raised in Fairport, New York (a suburb of Rochester), He is the son of Indian immigrants to the United States. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parvesh Cheena
Parvesh Singh Cheena (born July 22, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Gupta in the TV series ''Outsourced'' and as Sunil Odhav on ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend''. He also voices Bodhi in ''T.O.T.S.'' Early life Cheena was born in Elk Grove, Illinois, of Indian descent. He grew up in Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and went to Waubonsie Valley High School. He studied musical theatre at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Personal life Cheena is gay. In August 2021, he criticized representation of gay characters in media, telling Insider that "White people were allowed to be gay, in a sense, or be queer as an identifier. People see our color and ethnicity first before our sexuality." He is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsai Chin (actress)
Tsai Chin (; born 1 September 1933) is a Chinese actress, singer, director, teacher and author best known in America for her role as Auntie Lindo in the film '' The Joy Luck Club''. Her career spans more than six decades and three continents. She starred onstage in London's West End in ''The World of Suzie Wong'' and on Broadway in '' Golden Child''. Tsai Chin appeared in two James Bond films, 39 years apart: as a Bond girl in '' You Only Live Twice''; and in '' Casino Royale''. She also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' episode " The Only Light in the Darkness" (2014) as Lian May and in the feature film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' (2021) as Waipo. Her single, "The Ding Dong Song," recorded for Decca, hit the top of the music charts in Asia. She was the first acting instructor to be invited to teach acting in China after the Cultural Revolution, when China's universities re-opened. In China, she is best kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Nam
Leonardo Nam (born November 5, 1979) is an Australian actor. He made his breakthrough as Roy in '' The Perfect Score'' (2004), and gained further recognition for his roles as Morimoto in '' The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'' (2006) and Brian McBrian in ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'' (2008). In 2016, Nam began starring as Felix Lutz in '' Westworld'' (2016–present) which brought him widespread recognition. Early life Nam was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to South Korean immigrant parents. At the age of six, he moved to Sydney, Australia. Nam attended Sydney Technical High School and studied architecture at the University of New South Wales. Nam left Sydney to follow his dreams of an acting career in New York City, United States, at the age of 19. He studied with several acting teachers in New York, namely Austin Pendleton and William Carden at HB Studio. Career Before his Hollywood success, Nam travelled to New York City to pursue his acting career. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheetal Sheth
Sheetal Sheth (born June 24, 1976 ) is an American actress, author, producer, and activist. She starred opposite Albert Brooks in his film ''Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World''. She debuted to rave reviews in the films ''ABCD'' and '' American Chai'', and has appeared in the films ''I Can't Think Straight'' and ''The World Unseen''. Sheth has won multiple best actress awards on the festival circuit and has been selected to represent such brands as CHI haircare"In Any Language", CHI Magazine and Reebok.Reebok Freestyles – New York She is also the first Indian American to appear in '' Maxim magazine''.Sharma, Jaya. "Simply Sheetal" Sheetal's had op-eds published on CNN, ''The Daily Beast'', and ''Thrive Global''. Her first children's book, ''Always Anjali'', debuted to critical acclaim and became is set to be a series. This series is the first picture book series that features a South Asian hero. Early life and education Sheth was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and is a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
