Americanese
Director: Eric Byler
Genre: Indie, Romance Film, Comedy, Film adaptation, Romantic comedy, Comedy-drama, Slice of life story, Ensemble Film, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Ben Shenkman, Kelly Hu, Joan Chen, Autumn Reeser, Takayo Fischer, Michael Paul Chan, Sab Shimono, Chris Tashima, Allison Sie, Ryan Cutrona, Stephen Bishop
Americanese is a 2006 American independent film acquired by IFC Films but not yet released. It is a romantic drama about the break-up of a couple, about love and memory, and how race plays into the lives of contemporary Asian Americans and Hapa/mixed-race Americans.
The film was written and directed by Eric Byler, adapted from the novel, "American Knees," by Shawn Wong. It was produced by Lisa Onodera, who optioned the book when it was first published in 1995. The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in 2006, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Cast. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars, calling it "...uncommonly absorbing." In October 2006, IFC Films acquired the film for distribution, under their IFC First Take distribution arm, which will release the film on a "day-and-date" platform, which will include a limited theatrical release accompanied simultaneously with a video on demand (VOD) broadcast premiere on Comcast cable.
Raymond Ding, a middle-aged Chinese American college professor, and Aurora Crane, his younger Hapa (half-Asian) girlfriend, have just
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