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Dawen is a soul and R&B singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles whose music is aimed at furthering dialogue on racism and social injustice. His debut album American Me is available now on iTunes and Amazon; he will continue his tour in February. Learn more at his official site, dawen.us.
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Mrs. Ray-Yun Tsai Huang is a 96-year-old Taiwanese American. She was born in Taiwan and worked as an elementary school teacher for 41 years. After her husband passed away in 1983, Mrs. Huang left Taiwan and came to Ann Arbor, MI to live with her youngest daughter and became a US citizen in 1986. In 1988 she came to Los Angeles to live in the Taiwanese senior housing in El Monte and has enjoyed her independence ever since. She has also served the community as a former Taiwanese Senior Society president.
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Ted Fu is a founding member of Wong Fu Productions, a growing independent production company that shoots and directs online short films. They also design and create T-shirts for their Nice Guy Design clothing brand. Their first major short film Yellow Fever was released in January 2006, and they will be shooting their next feature film towards the end of 2010.
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Michelle Krusiec found her fame as the star of Saving Face, a romantic comedy directed by Alice Wu. As a writer, she continues to work on original material and perform her critically acclaimed solo show Made in Taiwan, which premiered at the Aspen Comedy festival in 2002 and again in 2007 in its' New York Off-Broadway premiere at the first annual Asian American Theater Festival. Recent projects include the feature What Happens in Vegas and the upcoming Taiwanese feature Zoom Hunting. Find out more about Michelle's work at michellekrusiec.com.
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Harrison and Hailey Holcomb are third generation hapa Taiwanese Americans. Three-year-old Harrison loves bowling, and six-year-old Hailey enjoys ballet and swimming!
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Welly Yang is a Taiwanese American actor, playwright, singer, and entrepreneur. He has starred in several notable musicals and plays, including the Broadway production Miss Saigon. He is the Executive Producer of the Asian Excellence Awards and the founder of Second Generation, an Asian-American theater company based in Manhattan. He also recently became a father!
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Roger Fan's film credits are impressive, including lead roles in IFC Films' Finishing the Game, Paramount's Better Luck Tomorrow, Disney's Annapolis, and Touchstone's Corky Romano. Roger also created and starred in the surprise Sundance comedic hit The Quest for Length. More recent feature films include Universal Studio's Fast and Furious, Judd Apatow's Drillbit Taylor, and Academy Award Winner Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa. He is a graduate of Brown University and currently lives in Los Angeles, and is a regular writer for the popular Asian American blog You Offend Me You Offend My Family.
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Adam Wang is a Los Angeles-based actor born in Taipei, Taiwan and spending his youth in the San Francisco Bay area. He recently portrayed the character of "Lee" in the movie Formosa Betrayed and is currently the Los Angeles correspondent for Hello Hollywood, a bilingual program produced by The Hollywood Reporter TV.
Henry Milton Chu is an actor and model in Los Angeles, CA who hails from Chicago, Illinois. Recently, he played a featured part in the film Formosa Betrayed. He also has a lead role in Let Old Ghosts Rest, which hit the festival circuit in late 2009. In the past, he has been a hip hop dance choreographer, a graduate laboratory instructor, an electrical engineer, and a Dale Carnegie coach! Find out more at HenryMChu.com. -
Andi Long is half Taiwanese, half Cantonese American and is proud to be an Anteater at the University of California, Irvine. She is an officer at her university's Taiwanese American Organization. She is from Ventura County and loves dogs, painting, and playing tennis.
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Jimmy Tsai is a producer and actor who recently played "C-Dub", the wild, trash-talking but ultimately good-hearted ping pong champion in the feature film Ping Pong Playa. More recently, he produced a documentary about fortune cookies called The Killing of a Chinese Cookie.
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Tora Harris is an Olympic high jumper who graduated from Princeton University. He has been a four-time US high jump champion, won a bronze medal at the 2001 World University Games in Beijing and competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He is proud to be half Taiwanese half African American.
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Ben Ling is the national president of Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL) and a former president of Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP). He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and is now a financial advisor.
Evan and Elena Ling are first generation Taiwanese Americans. Elena was formerly a Board member of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) and a national president of the North America Taiwanese Women's Association (NATWA). Evan is the founder of the Chen Wen-Chen Memorial Foundation and the Taiwanese American Association of Atlanta. He is currently a board member of FAPA. -
Alice Tong is a Chinese-Taiwanese American singer-songwriter based in San Francisco. She studied Ethnomusicology as an undergraduate and received a Masters degree in Social Work. Her jazz and folk album Small is available on iTunes and Amazon, and she is in the final stages of mixing her all-original indie folk album, due out in Spring 2010. Find out more at alicetongmusic.com.
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Ray Lin is a Taipei American School and University of Wisconsin, Madison alum who first discovered his dead-on Obama impersonation back in 2008. When asked how he mastered the impersonation, he answers, "You know what? I was just watching TV."
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Ted Lieu is a Taiwanese American politician and lawyer. He is a California State Assemblyman and prosecutor and is currently running for California Attorney General. Furthermore, he is Chair of the Assembly Rules Committee, Chair of the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, and Chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Aerospace.
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Connie and Amy Muramoto are half Taiwanese half Japanese American sisters. Connie graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 2008 and currently works at CB Richard Ellis. She is also the current Miss Taiwanese American 2009.
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Robin Yazdi is half Taiwanese half Persian American, and he speaks Mandarin. He currently works as a tech consultant in Torrance, California.
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Charles Chen is the owner and operator of Charles Chen Productions, a company that helps cover Hollywood film premieres and other major events. Charles launched his first video production company when he was still in high school. Today, he coordinates audiences and extras for TV shows and sitcoms around Hollywood, works behind the scenes on the hit NBC TV show Community, and is a commercial and print actor.
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The Fong Family is a second and third generation Taiwanese American family. Julie is a third grade teacher in South Central Los Angeles; Kiana is three years old and is perfectly happy being a princess; and Jaden is six years old, plays basketball, loves swimming, and enjoys playing piano.
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Catherine Yu is a former Miss Taiwan and is very active in the Taiwanese American community in Southern California and Las Vegas. She is an urban planner, an artist, and a singer.
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Agnes and Stanley Hsiao are first generation Taiwanese Americans. Agnes currently serves as the president of the NATWA-Los Angeles Chapter. Stanley is an attorney and was formerly the chairman of the Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle.
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Kevin Wang is a 1.5 generation Taiwanese American living in Los Angeles, CA. As a successful Motion Editor, he most recently worked on the major motion picture Avatar, winner of the Golden Globes for Best Film and Best Director. For more information about Kevin or his work, visit studio-wang.com.
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Howard Chen is the East Coast representative for TaiwaneseAmerican.org, founder of the Taiwanese American Professionals chapter in D.C., and a Program Director for the Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF). When he's not off joining organizations, Howard likes globetrotting, living off caffeine, browsing Reddit, lifting, and being ridiculous. He is currently an Enterprise Storage Engineer for Dell Inc., contracting for the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C.
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Stephanie Yang is a mixed-race, queer, Taiwanese European American artist living in Los Angeles. She sees the world through light and shadows. Stemming from her experiences of being hapa, much of her work focuses on the amorphous lines between race, identity and self in urban settings. Her films have screened nationwide in a variety of queer, people of color, and Taiwanese-American spaces. Currently, she is exploring interdisciplinary and collaborative projects with artists and digging into metaphors of home, memory and the vulnerabilities of desire. Stephanie is a founding member of shiftingnarratives.com.

Crew
- Director Karen Lin
- Producers Jonathan Lee, Howard Chen, Alex Yang, Kev Yau
- Director of Photography Byron Werner
- Editor Rachel Tejada
- Gaffer Steven Lundgren
- Sound Mixer Greg Cosh
- Boom Operator Nora Cosh
- Hair & Make-Up Yuriko Bondies
- Production Assistants Vince Huang, Adam Wang, Jon Shen
- Graphics & Titles Warren Fu
- Sound Post Production Kent Road Productions
- Translations Freeman Huang
- Web Designer Anna Wu
- Special Thanks Ho Chie Tsai, Ben Ling
- Filmed at KCW Studios
