Thursday, September 6, 6 pm – 8 pm
AAARI-CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, Board Room
New York, NY 10036
Join us for our seminal Unfinished Works program, in which professional actors perform a table read and the audience is invited to workshop the script for the writer under the direction of Film Lab management team member, Jean Goto, who will be utilizing the Liz Lerman Technique. The reading will take place at AAARI-CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, Board Room, New York, NY 10036 in New York City, and will be free to attend, although donations are always welcome. Please RSVP to jean@film-lab.org for more information and directions.
Gordon Mathieson writes with passion, intrigue and, most importantly, a spirit of greater understanding between the Asian and non-Asian communities. The driving force behind The Color of Ice, his latest tale, was and is to highlight Chinese and Chinese American characters in contemporary, non-traditional or stereotypical roles. He also visualizes this novel as a film. Quite simply, Mathieson believes this novel has screen potential for showcasing Asian American actors in a new and fresh way previously unseen either in prose or film format. It is an opportunity for young, talented Asian American actors to delve into roles previously deemed commercially and aesthetically uninspiring and often relegated to a producer’s slush pile. Mathieson hopes to change all that, and with only 5 main characters in the story—4 Asian and 1 Caucasian. He also hopes Hollywood will take notice.
A prolific writer, Mathieson is preparing to launch his next literary project in the young adult genre: The Becky Bing mystery series Hook Island and Summer Games. Each will feature Becky Bing, a 16-year-old Chinese American. She is a “modern-day Nancy Drew” stumbling across serious crimes she must solve on her own. Becky, a high school junior, is smart, confident, edgy, feisty but also compassionate. As with The Color of Ice, the Becky Bing series emphasizes the Chinese culture and Chinese language where appropriate; educating and enlightening readers about Asian Americans embedded in a good story.
Gordon’s adapted film script THE COLOR of ICE will be hosted by the Asian American Film Lab in New York City on September 6th. A cast of professional actors will perform a table-read of this spy thriller script between 6 and 9 pm. Come Join us! Watch for more details here or at http://www.gordonmathieson.com/Author_Bio.php.
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