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The WorkSHOP is a collaborative of New York based Asian American filmmakers who meet weekly to hone their craft and to share resources. Founded in December of 1998, The WorkSHOP is committed to creating a space for skills to be sharpened, new work to be created, and relationships to be fostered. By working with writers, actors, and artists of varous fields to produce outstanding work which entertains and challenges, The WorkSHOP hopes to promote a flourishing new Asian American Cinema.
The mission of AsianAmericanFilm.com is to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American films.
Why bother?
First, good films deserve to be seen and audiences deserve to see good films. By getting the word out, AsianAmericanFilm.com will maximize joy on all ends by getting films and viewers together. Hooray! Second, getting more people out to see Asian American films is the key to getting more Asian American films made, thereby fighting the much-lamented negative images of Asians in mainstream American media.
Here’s how it works:
Film financing requires stars. So Asian American filmmakers will continue to have great difficulty finding financing for films with Asian American characters as long as the pool of Asian American stars remains so small. But actors only become stars when they’re in financially successful films. Thus, by building the audience for Asian American films, this website will make it more likely that good Asian American features will get their audiences, become financially successful, and break the Catch-22 preventing the financing of Asian American films.
Founder Jaymie Moran is currently pursuing an MBA in Finance and Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Although she is not of Asian descent, she established this magazine to pursue her love of writing and various cultures. Seeing a need and lack of all things Asian in American media, Jaymie decided to test her luck and enthusiasm with ASIANCE Magazine. Determined to acquire and maintain the interest of readers of this magazine, she attributes its high quality and content to the talent and dedication of the various journalists. Additionally, Jaymie dedicates ASIANCE Magazine to her mother and every woman’s passion, purpose and destiny.
Since 1996, WorldAsia, Inc. is a media entity that promotes Asians in the entertainment industry via a diverse range of media outlets. World Asia Television is America’s first Pan Asian cable television network in English delivering Asian content to audiences around the world. World Asia Television’s audience is 18-34, young, hip, stylish, edgy and heavily into music and fashion. Look out for powerful tv programs from WorldAsia Television beginning Fall 2003!!
Pan Asian Rep is the professional theatre founded to celebrate Asian American artistic expressiveness on the living stage. It became a major New York theatre presence in 1983 with the long off-Broadway run of Yellow Fever, introducing the tough Japanese private eye with a heart of gold, Sam Shikaze. The company grew out of Tisa Chang’s experimental work at LaMama ETC with a core of Asian actors in such benchmark bi-lingual productions as the Peking Opera adaptation of Return of the Phoenix and the intercultural version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
