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Asian/Pacific Gays and Friends |
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Monthly Social/Potluck
Sunday, may 4th at 2:30 PM
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Guest speaker
Edward Gunawan
Model, actor, director, writer and
producer
About
EDWARD GUNAWAN (Director, Writer & Producer) in his
own words
www.edwardgunawan.com
TOPIC:
Personal is Political |
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Come and see his new short film, Just,
about two strangers who after having sex “discover that a casual hook-up is
anything but,” and his views on monogamy and open relationships.
The 12-min film recently won the Top 5 Films at
the 9th PlanetOut Short Movie Awards and will be celebrating its broadcast
premiere on Logo mid-May. Just, along with his directorial debut Laundromat,
will be screening at the 24th VC Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on
May 7th (program 25) and May 3rd (program 57) respectively.
Our Social/Potlucks are held at the
West Hollywood's Plummer Park Community Center located at 7377 Santa Monica
Blvd in West Hollywood.
This is a wonderful way to meet your friends for an
afternoon of socializing. Be sure to bring a friend with you.
This is a POTLUCK. Those providing
food, FREE, those that come empty handed $10. Bring enough
of food to feed several people.
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As an actor,
I made my
screen debut with
STILL, a short film
that I also co-wrote and co-produced. After being screened in over
30 international film festivals, STILL is now distributed by
Frameline Releasing.
Recipient of the 2006
East West Players Beulah Quo Acting Scholarship, I started
performing as an intercollegiate debater and award-winning oratory
speaker, before venturing as a spoken word artist. Under the
direction of veteran stage performers
Dan Kwong and
Tim Miller, I eventually transitioned into the theater as a
monologist. Since then, I can be seen in various independent
shorts and TV commercials.
I am realizing my long-time dream to stage "XY" -- a solo play
that I've been developing for years. Previous excerpt readings of
the play have been conducted in various venues in California:
Highways Theater,
East West Players,
The Village -- LA Gay and Lesbian Center,
Theater of Note and
Foothill Community College.
As a writer, I won the
Script Development Competition at the 2006
Jakarta International Film Festival and awarded the Hubert
Bals Fund sponsored by the
Rotterdam International Film Festival for a feature-length
screenplay "Miss Indonesia" (O/T: "Nona Indonesia"). My articles
and columns have been featured on
fridae.com and
chopblock.com.
As a professional model, I have appeared in national print
ads -- most notably for Honda and Nokia, TV commercials, magazine
editorials and runways for up-and-coming Los Angeles designers.
In the spirit of continuous evolution as an artist and
enterpreneur, I am making my debut
as a filmmaker -- directing and producing short films with
collaboration partner David Maurice Gil. Since completing
marketing intership at the
East West Players and creative development internship at
Ironpond (with producer
Teddy Zee) in 2007, I plan to complete an original gay shorts
collection with Gil, entitled "Strangers, Friends + Lovers."
Born in Indonesia and raised in Singapore, I am now based in Los
Angeles, where I recently earned my
MBA at
Loyola Marymount University and completed a filmmaking
fellowship at the
Film Independent’s signature diversity program
Project:Involve, with Academy Award winner
Chris Tashima as my mentor.
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