Where:
Emerson Paramount Center
559 Washington St
Boston, MA
Admission:
$30
Categories:
Good for Groups, Movies
Event website:
https://baaff.org/special-presentation-interior-chinatown
https://baaff.org/special-presentation-interior-chinatown
BOSTON ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: INTERIOR CHINATOWN
Narrative | 50 Minutes | English
Followed by a Q&A with the Series Creator/Executive Producer, Charles Yu
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndzygetBHV0
SYNOPSIS: Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black & White.” Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.
CAST: Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, Lisa Gilroy, Sullivan Jones, Archie Kao, and Diana Lin.
CREDITS: Series’ creator Charles Yu serves as executive producer, along with Dan Lin and Lindsey Liberatore for Rideback; Jeff Skoll, Miura Kite and Elsie Choi for Participant; Garrett Basch for Dive; John Lee; and Taika Waititi, who also directed the pilot. The ten-episode limited series is produced by 20th Television.
Creator/Executive Producer's Bio – Charles Yu
CHARLES YU is creator and showrunner of Interior Chinatown (Hulu/20th) based on his novel of the same title, which was a New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award for Fiction. The book was named a best book of the year by numerous publications and organizations, including The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair and Vulture. He has been nominated for three WGA awards and has written for Hulu, FX, AMC and HBO, as well feature film projects for Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Time and Wired, among other places. He lives in southern California with his family.
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