ROY G. BIV

My Screenplay Performed at HBO

THE MIGHTY HERCULES - a screenplay that I co-wrote with Kim Spurlock - is one of the finalists at the UrbanWorld Film Festival. As part of the events, HBO will be hosting a staged reading of part of the screenplay. Hopefully, it'll get picked up and I can start work on Gremlins 4 (j/k). The reading is open to the public, and it's first come, first seated, but I do get to reserve some seats for my entourage. :)

If you're free on Friday, June 22 from 11am-1pm and want to see my screenplay come to life, just drop me a note.

Vote for Angel Island Immigration Station

My good friend, Erika, works for the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation ("AIISF"). The mission of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation is to promote a greater understanding of how Pacific Coast immigration and its role in shaping America's past, present, and future. The Foundation needs your help - specifically your VOTE - to earn $10 million dollars towards the preservation of the historical landmarks on Angel Island.

After New York’s Ellis Island, Angel Island was the second most significant immigration station in the United States. From 1910 through 1940, it was the West Coast entry point for over one million, Pacific Rim immigrants many of whom were detained there as a result of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. This “Ellis Island of the West” needs structural repairs and a new roof for the World War II-era mess hall.

1) Go to http://www.partnersinpreservation.com.

2) Vote for AIISF

3) Repeat daily.

4) Spread the word.

From Erika:

There are only 7 more days to vote at www.partnersinpreservation.com for the Angel Island Immigration Station! We thank you all for your votes, especially those that diligently vote each and every day for our project!

Now we need you to continue to vote and to continue to spread the word to your family and friends! Through your support we have maintained a solid second place position for the past 4 weeks! We were in first place shortly for the very first week! And more importantly we gained one percentage point last week!

The results of projects that have been chosen to be funded will be announced the evening of November 14 in San Francisco. We have been honored to have been selected as one of the 25 projects and through this process we have gained invaluable visibility for our Angel Island.

Thank you again and remember to go to www.partnersinpreservation.com for your last week of voting!

Casting Call

Alex Ku (director) and David Chan (producer) are casting for their latest movie - 66,000 MPH. This is a timely story about illegal immigration and how one woman must choose between a life as a garment worker or prostitution. The movie stars Qian Yi, the famous opera singer from Lincoln Center's Peony Pavilion, who just finished DARK MATTER with Meryl Streep.

We are casting for the following roles:

- 25-30 Asian women who can play recent immigrants.
- Chinese Males - 10-12 Asian men who can play gangsters, age 20-35.
- White Males - 5-8 business executives, age 25+
- Rice Rocket - Sup'd up Japanese car (ala "The Fast and The Furious")

WHY
- Fun! You have an opportunity to be immortalized in film
- Fame! An opportunity to share the screen with a famous actress
- Food. We'll feed you during the shoot.
- Fortune. There's no pay, but you will see your name in the credits and get a copy of the movie.

WHEN
- Filming is from 7/22-7/31. We will only need you for a few hours for just one of the days, so please advise us of your availability (i.e., weekends only, after work, etc.).

WHERE
- Manhattan Chinatown

HOW
- If you are available, please reply to 66kfilm@gmail.com
with "CASTING EXTRAS" in the subject title. Please include your name, email, phone number, clothing size (for our wardrobe person) and a digital picture of yourself (head-to-toe if available).

We will inform you about our casting decisions on 7/14. Please forward this email to others who might be interested. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Thanks,
David Chan
Producer
66,000 MPH

Dynastic Wealth

From Monday's press conference about Warren Buffet's gift to the Gates Foundation:

"I can’t think of anything that’s more counter to idea of meritocracy than dynastic wealth. The idea that you win the lottery the moment you are born if you come from the right womb, just strikes me as outrageous.

I had the advantage of a home where people talked about interesting things and intelligent parents that went to very decent schools. They had all kind of advantages let alone being given billions of claim checks on the activities of others in the future.

That’s what wealth is. They’re a bunch of claim checks. You can use that wealth in any way that you want to cash in those claim checks. But the idea of passing those from generation to generation so that hundreds of your descendants can essentially command the resources of other people simply because they came from the right womb flies in the face of a meritocratic society

I love it when I'm around a country club, and I hear people talking about these debilitating aspects of a welfare cycle, where some woman had a child at 17, and all these terrible things are happening because of food stamps and the fact that we’re perpetuating this by keeping these people who are not behaving in a way they’re suppose to in a situation where they continue to do so merely by eating.

At the same time, they leave their kids a lifetime and beyond supply of food stamps. They essentially instead of having a welfare officer, they have a trust officer. And instead of having food stamps, they have stocks and bonds that pay them dividends and interest."

- Warren Buffet

I couldn't agree more.