Chung Tsang and his friends have put together a shorts screening nite in Chinatown. The inaugural screening is this Friday, January 20, 2006. They will be showing some earlier works by Michael Kang.

DETAILS
30 Mott Street, NYC
(by Woo Hop)
7PM SHARP till 8pm. 
Q&A afterwards.

Hope to see some AAFilmLab peoples make it out on this expedition! Copy and pasted but still very valid and respectable bio of M.Kang follows below:

Michael Kang is a Korean American filmmaker based in New York. His feature film directorial debut “The Motel"which was produced by Indie veteran director Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005 and is scheduled for its theatrical release through Palm Pictures in June 2006. “The Motel” is the recipient of the Humanitas Prize as well as both the Best Narrative Feature from the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Best Dramatic Feature from The San Diego Asian Film Festival. The film was also awarded the 2003 Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker’s Award. In addition, Michael was a fellow at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab in 2002. Most recently, Michael was honored with a residency at the prestigious MacDowell Colony. He also received the 2002 Geri Ashur Award in screenwriting through the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2001, he won the 24th Annual Asian American International Film Festival screenplay competition.

His short film “A Waiter Tomorrow” received both the FilmCore Post-Production Grant, 1998 and the Freaky Film Festival, Audience Choice Award 1999.His film “Japanese Cowboy” was a co-recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, 1999 and the Special Jury Prize at Film Fest New Haven, 2000. Michael worked as second unit director for Wayne Wang on the film, Because of Winn-Dixie (where he got to direct a live bear).

Director - filmography
The Motel (2005)
Japanese Cowboy (2000)
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998)

Writer - filmography
The Motel (2005)
Japanese Cowboy (2000)
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998)

Actor - filmography
Asian Pride Porn (2000) .... Delivery Man
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998) .... Mike

Producer - filmography
Japanese Cowboy (2000) (producer)
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998) (co-producer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director - filmography
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) (second unit director)

Editor - filmography
Japanese Cowboy (2000)

Stunts - filmography
A Waiter Tomorrow (1998) (stunts)

Himself - filmography
Last Man Running (2003) .... Himself