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Cinematographer Larry Fong talks about his film SUPER 8 with Suzanne Joe Kai
Cinematographer Larry Fong chatted with Suzanne Joe Kai just as SUPER 8 was making its opening weekend debut in theaters nationwide claiming the #1 spot at the box office. SUPER 8 is directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Speilberg.
Larry Fong began his career shooting hundreds of commercials and award-winning music videos. Beginning in junior high school, he taught himself still photography, cel and stop motion animation, and filmmaking using a Super 8 camera. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Linguistics, and specilized in film and photography at the Art Center of Design in Pasadena.
His music videos for R.E.M., Van Halen, and Goo Goo Dolls earned him three MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year. He went on to film two independent films and TV projects, including the pilot for the LOST television series, which earned him an ASC award nomination.
In 2007, his first major studio film "300" was released, directed by fellow Art Center of Design classmate Zack Snyder. in 2009, he was the Director of Photography for "Watchmen" and in 2011 for "Sucker Punch" also directed by Zack Snyder, and "SUPER 8" directed by childhood friend J.J. Abrams, and producer Steven Spielberg.
The
photograph
in
this
article
of
Larry
Fong
on
the
set
of
SUPER
8
holding
a
special
light
surrounded
by
smoke
machines
is
by
photographer
Francois
Duhamel.
Yellow Fever Playwright Rick Shiomi Explores New Territory with An All-Female Cast
Christmas came early for me this year, in the form of R.A. Shiomi’s award-winning play Yellow Fever, when I played the lead, Japanese-Canadian gumshoe, Sam Shikaze, in an all-female cast reading of the play at the home of Julie Azuma and Tamio Spiegel on December 5, 2011.
Playwright and co-director Rick Shiomi, Cindy Cheung, Susan Dalton Quinn, Amanda Galang, Ako, Katie Lee Hill, Lia Chang, Gyu Jin Lim and co-director Raul Aranas.
The reading was co-directed by playwright Rick Shiomi and actor/director Raul Aranas, who helmed Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production in 1982. It was an exhilarating and historic evening to be performing in my favorite play with my longtime colleagues Cindy Cheung (Captain Kadota) and Ako (Rosie); in addition to Susan Dalton Quinn (Sergeant Mackenzie), Katie Lee Hill (Nancy Wing), Gyu Jin Lim (Chuck Chan) and Amanda Galang (Superintendent Jameson, Goldberg).
Rick Shiomi, Julie Azuma and Tamio Spiegel Photo by Lia Chang
In the house to support- Reme Grefalda, curator of ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection; actors BD Wong, Gordana Rashovich, Jarlath Conroy and Karen Tsen Lee; Heading East lyricist and librettist Robert Lee, novelist Ed Lin, photographer Brianne Michelle Planko; and Mina Manalac.
May 21-22: BD Wong to Star in Live Concert Recording of HERRINGBONE to Benefit Dixon Place
Dixon
Place
is
proud
to
announce
a
staged
live
concert
recording
of
the
one-man-musical Herringbone,
starring
the
Tony
Award-winning
star
of
TV’s
“Law
&
Order:
SVU,”
BD
Wong.
The concert, which will benefit Dixon Place, will have two performances: Monday May 21, and Tuesday May 22, both at 7:00PM. Dixon Place is at 161A Chrystie St. (between Rivington and Delancey). Tickets and more information are available at dixonplace.org.
BD Wong in Herringbone. Photo by Lia Chang
Wong
has
headlined
three
critically-acclaimed
productions
of
the
demanding
musical
–
in
which
he
enacts,
sings
and
dances
at
least
11
characters
–
at
the
Williamstown
Theatre
Festival
(2007),
McCarter
Theatre
(2009),
and
La
Jolla
Playhouse
(2010),
all
directed
by
Tony
Award-winner
Roger
Rees
(Nicholas
Nickleby,
Peter
And
The
Starcatcher).
Wong
also
starred
in
another
earlier
production
at
the
American
Musical
Theatre
Festival
in
1994.
Herringbone, with a book by Tom Cone, music by Skip Kennon and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, was first produced in New York at Playwright’s Horizons in a memorable 1982 production starring David Rounds. The difficult-to-perform musical is rarely revived, and this concert (to be recorded live for future release as a CD), will be BD Wong’s first appearance in New York of the material, timed with the 30th Anniversary of the original New York production.
