{"id":54994,"date":"2015-07-25T07:33:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T11:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=54994"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:39:33","slug":"aaiff-purple-onion-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=54994","title":{"rendered":"AAIFF: Purple Onion (World Premiere)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturdya, July 25 6PM<br \/>\nVillage East Cinema<br \/>\n181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/purponion2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[54994]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/purponion2-770x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE PURPLE ONION is an offbeat feature-length, comic-drama film about the most unfortunate stand-up comedian you have never heard of. Johnny, a struggling Chinese American comedian in San Francisco, finds himself on a downward spiral of disappointment in his private and personal life.<\/p>\n<p>Our well-intentioned and increasingly more hapless comedian works as a dishwasher and hopes to move up to server. Most of all, he wants to get on stage and perform comedy; but gradually more serious, absurd and unexpected obstacles prevent him from doing so. The comedian\u2019s estranged and single relative Jeanie suddenly moves in to Johnny\u2019s tiny apartment; she\u2019s lost everything and her home to foreclosure.  As the new roommates adjust to one another\u2019s personal habits while also struggling to find their own roles in a vibrantly diverse, often profoundly beautiful yet intrinsically challenging metropolitan San Francisco.Emotionally confused and in need of a human connection, sexual intrigue develops as Johnny and Jeanie\u2019s fates intertwine.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and information visit:<a href=\"http:\/\/aaiff.org\/2015\/films\/purple-onion\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/aaiff.org\/2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturdya, July 25 6PM Village East Cinema 181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54996,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54994\/revisions\/54996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}