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What a weekend! Thank you, everyone, for coming out this weekend! Thanks to you, we sold out all three manja-hosted special screenings featuring Roger Fan! In its opening weekend BLT pulled in an average of over $27,000 per theater, which was the highest average for any film in the country! (here's the press release) This was also the largest per-screen average ever for Paramount Classics and MTV Films! (comparatively, Anger Management, with the second-largest average that weekend, pulled in $12,000 per screen.) Breaking news In addition to the AMC 1000 Van Ness, BLT will now be showing this weekend (April 18th) at the Loews Sony Metreon and the Century 20 (Juniper Serra) in Daly City! Let's get the word out to everyone to show up this weekend to these newly added theaters! If you'd like to learn more about promoting BLT, join the BLT SF Street Team! Get connected Thoughts on BLT? Got a question we didn't get to during the Q/A? Throw down in our Better Luck Tomorrow Forum. Also, if you'd like us to tell you about our next event, sign up on our manja.org mailing list: Get involved
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Thank you! Huge thanks to Roger Fan and Evan Leong for fitting us in their very busy schedules. Roger went straight to the airport after our last Sunday screening to go promote BLT in NYC. Thanks to our special guests who helped us celebrate BLT's Opening Night: DJ Doboy, Golda Supanova and Da Supafrenz, and The Skyflakes. Thanks also to our community co-presenters for their support: Asian American Theater Company, Bindlestiff Studio, Kearny Street Workshop, Locus Community Arts, NAATA, and Third Thursdays. Thanks to our volunteers for helping to make the event a success: Jill, Mitzi, Gavin, Titania, Howard, Ching-in, Le, Melissa, Tina, Jennifer, Kim, David, Shelley, Carol, Sepi, Vanessa, Earl and Christine. Also, thanks to NAAAP, SF, Noodle Magazine, GAPA, and everyone on the BLT SF Street Team for their support in promoting the events. Special thanks to David Huang for documenting the event; SFIAAFF Director Chi-hui Yang for hosting Friday's Q/A with Roger Fan; and Julie Song for her fantastic work in pulling together a great Friday event. Most of all, thank YOU for coming out to support a great film as well as our local APA arts community. This past weekend's special BLT/manja.org events were made possible through funding by the MANJA Partners. If you'd like to learn more about funding future events like this, or are otherwise looking for ways to invest in the Asian American arts, please contact us. Stay tuned Our next major event(s) will be around the May 9th launch of the film "Charlotte Sometimes", by director Eric Byler, which screened at the SFIAAFF this past March. It's a beautiful film, and we're working to arrange a few special events with appearances by Eric and cast. We'll also be putting together our guide to The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center's upcoming United States of Asian America Festival, so stay tuned! Got a question? Contact us. OUR SPECIAL GUESTS ROGER FAN With a background in theatre, Roger Fan has performed various classic and contemporary stage productions in London, Ireland, and the United States. His most recent theatre credits include, Lettice & Lovage, Terminus Americana, Texas and Performance Anxiety. Roger made his feature film debut in New Line Cinema's RUSH HOUR, and starred as Chris Kattan's (of Saturday Night Live) FBI partner in the Disney/Touchstone comedy, CORKY ROMANO. He produced and starred in the Sundance Film Festival fave short THE QUEST FOR LENGTH and will be seen in an upcoming Farrelly Brothers film. Roger is hard at worked gearing up for his next self-producing project. Roger was born and raised in Southern California. EVAN LEONG At the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, Justin Lin's controversial film BETTER LUCK TOMORROW raised eyebrows and provoked heated discussions with its dark look at Asian American youth. It was a critical hit and is poised to break new ground with a theatrical release by MTV Films in early 2003. Following the film along its entire journey was filmmaker Evan Leong and the result is his engaging documentary, "BLT Genesis." Both a behind-the-scenes look at BETTER LUCK TOMORROW and a fascinating critique of Asian American cinema and independent filmmaking, "BLT Genesis" offers a rare chance to see the inner-workings of the film world. THE SKYFLAKES
"The Skyflakes are often lovingly described as 'cute and bubbly' or 'sweet and sugary.' But I know better. Just listen to their lyrics. Underneath the indie rock swirls and cuddly pop hooks are some mean words about putting bullets into yourself, dropping acid, talking shit about co-workers, and meatheads with body image problems..."
GOLDA SUPANOVA
Defiant. Otherworldly. Urban. Dark & Lovely music for
the unorthodox soul. Golda Supanova sings like a woman
transported. Openly shape-shifting and defying
detection by typical radar, Golda tears apart words
like "rock", "soul", "electronica", "pop" to free the
horizon. Discovering a hidden world as confused and
coherent as she is, as we are. A gifted and stubbornly
unique writer, Golda crafts crooked narratives peopled
with fallen angels, persistent phantoms, broken
worlds, and the insistent airborne instrument of her
voice - music that is live, lyrical, caught between
the wicked and sublime. You may never know what to
call it, but it speaks. Listen.
http://www.fullblownsoul.com
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. For more information, contact djdoboy@skypeach.com | ||
(all images courtesy David Huang and 
