For the Me of Cinema

SIGNED, BABA 

 

© 2016, 2023 - 70 years after the end of the screenwriter’s life

 

 

Crowdfunded on Indiegogo

Honorable Sponsors

YINNE WANG, ZHOU LI, B.J. BULLERT, THE BAUMANS, HO HSUAN HSUAN, OSCAR MAO, HUANG YUSHAN, SUN HSU  

 

CAST

Main characters:

The Inquirer, Asian American, male, eccentric, in early 50s, an atheist and a loner [ARTHUR TSENG]

The Father, Asian American, over 90 [George Takei]

The Sister, Asian/Caucasian, in mid 40s, a community activist and Chan practitioner []

The Mother, The Father’s mixed-race wife, died prior to his []

 

Other characters:

The Young Inquirer, in flashbacks or imagined scenes

The Young Father, in flashbacks or imagined scenes

The Young Mother, The Young Father’s half-black, half-white wife, in flashbacks or imagined scenes

The Young Sister, in flashbacks or imagined scenes

The Filmmaker, single Caucasian female, in her early middle age []

The Filmmaker’s daughter, a teenager

The Childhood Girlfriend, African American, mid-aged, slightly younger than The Inquirer [audition]

The Iranian Physician, in his early 80s, a devoted Islamic culture advocate []

The Lyft driver, 30ish big cute Caucasian girl

Palliative care team head [DEBI RIVERA]

Newspaper co-worker

Uncle, The Father’s younger peasant brother

The white supremacist

 

 

CREW

Special education consultants [ALICE YANG][SUSAN DAVIS]

Artistic advisors [DAVID LEE][YUSHAN HUANG][STAN YIN CHI][MI-SEN WU]

Director of cinematography [AVAN LIN]

Composer [KELAN HUANG]

Planner [NITA PAI]

Screenplay supervisor [DEBI RIVERA]

Producer

Art director

Sound