Page 6 - Definition Please News Today

We interview Sujata Day about Definition Please, paying homage to Bollywood, and why she never wants to be a producer again.

The Netflix film stars Sujata Day ('Insecure') as a spelling bee champ who reconciles with her estranged older brother.

The Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati is back this year with another virtual presentation of movies.

D: Antoinette Jadaone. Philippines, 2020, 100 min. Opening night film. Filipino idol Paulo Avelino stars as a twisted version of himself in this unique look at celebrity and the teens who worship their flawed icons. (Drive-in screening, June 4, 7:30pm, Community First! Village Drive-In Cinema: Virtual access June 4-6) Center Stage. D: Stanley Kwan. Hong Kong, 1991, 126 min. Glowing 4K restoration of Stanley Kwans critically lauded 1991 semi-documentary, semi-biopic of Ruan Lingyu, "the Chinese...

Sujata Day reached the breaking point.  "There was a year during pilot season when all of the Indian American female roles were tied to some kind of arranged marriage plotline," she tells the American-Statesman over the phone last week. “I was just like, ‘Oh my god, I cant do this anymore,’ because me and my Indian American friends growing up, thats not something that we ever experienced with our parents or our families. Although there are some great movies and TV shows that have a plot...

Night on Sixth, the new Austin-made comedy from first-time feature director Mohit Jaswal, one of the first films announced for this years drive-in branch of the Austin Asian American Film Festival, running June 4-20. The Austin Asian American Film Festival is back for 2021, and you can catch it all from the comfort of your own seat - whether its at home, or in your car. The festival will be going virtual for most of its titles (to be announced later this month), but its headliners and...

11 Films That Highlight and Reflect Asian American Experiences Twitter 0 comments It’s that time of the year again: Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. There are often lists of Asian American content for readers to watch with the same films on them, such as the iconic Joy Luck Club, the Filipino American centric The Debut, coming-of-age drama Saving Face . These films do highlight Asian American cultures, including our struggles against stereotypes and “Model Minority...

Indian American actress Sujata Day of HBO’s “Insecure” fame has donned the director’s hat for the first time for a story that is close to her heart. Day has written/directed/produced and stars in “Definition Please,” a dramedy which follows a former spelling bee champ still struggling to make good on her childhood promise while contending with a complex family life. Alongside Day the film stars Ritesh Rajan (Sonny), Anna Khaja (Jaya), Lalaine (Krista) and Jake Choi...

Colorado Dragon Boat, a Denver-based group celebrating and promoting Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities across the state, had a tough 2020. The nonprofit was able to pull off last years edition of the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival. The annual event, which was launched in 2016, took place just before the cultural scene came to a screeching halt over COVID-19. But over the summer, the signature Colorado Dragon Boat Festival — which started in 2001, later giving rise to the fil...

click to enlarge The cast of the NBC show Connecting . . . shot their parts on iPhones from their actual homes, peppered with a few props. The laundry room in the show is actor Parvesh Cheenas actual laundry room. The pink kettle in the kitchen is the actual kettle he bought on Amazon. He refers to the downstairs of his townhome as the "set," and his bedroom upstairs has served as his dressing room. His partner, Eric, ev...