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Written and Directed by Daniel Hsia
Starring: Ewan Chung, Yee Yee Lee, Jeff Lam, Michael McConnohie
Narrated By: Michael McConnohie
Western Squat Student: Paul Apelgren
Cool Cat: Schumetta Lanier
Other Cool Cat: Garrett T. Thompson
Sexy Legs: Garz Chan
Music By: Alison Reid
Casting Assistants: Chen-Hsi Wong, Skye Borgman
Associate Producers: Peter Westen, Luyen H. Vu
The inspiration for this film came from Peter Westen, a friend who sang with me in an a cappella group in college. Peter studied in Japan for a little while and came back touting all of the benefits of the Asian Squat over the traditional western squat. He kept jabbering about it, so I decided to make an instructional film.
All of the actors in this film were wonderful to work with. I originally only had parts for one man and one woman, but both Ewan Chung and Jeff Lam were so good in their auditions that I decided to have them both, and I can’t imagine the film without them. Yee Yee is absolutely beautiful, and everybody who passed by my computer while I was editing the film has a big crush on her. Michael McConnohie was a godsend; he’s a very funny guy, and also a very experienced voice actor, having done voices for The Transformers cartoon back in the 1980s. Alison Reid was a great composer to work with, though I’ve never met her face-to-face, as she lives in Boston and e-mailed me the music files back and forth.
This was the first really successful film I made. It debuted at the 2002 Visual Comunications Film Festival here in Los Angeles, and has helped me to meet a lot of great filmmakers, actors, and other media artists. Many thanks to Greg Pak for hosting this on his website for a few weeks before it was downloaded so many times that it shut his site down. Oops!
Festivals:
2002 Visual Communications Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2002 San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA
2002 Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu, HI
2003 San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2003 Newport Beach International Film Festival, Newport Beach, CA
2003 Chicago Asian American Film Showcase, Chicago, IL
2003 Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2003 Dallas Asian American Film Festival, Dallas, TX
2003 1-Reel Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2003 Northwest Asian American Film Festival, Seattle, WA
2003 Special Screening, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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