First time feature director, Viet Nguyen’s film, CRUSH THE SKULL premiered to a sold-out audience on Thursday, June 11. The screening was part the Los Angeles Film Festival 2015, presented by Film Independent. “Crush” was selected as part of LAFF’s Nightfall Program, dedicated to films that are scary, dark, bizarre and generally supposed to be…
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Tim guest stars on the most recent episode of CW’s iZOMBIE, from executive producers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggerio-Wright (Veronica Mars), as AJ – the leader of the a nasty gang in town who puts the moves on Liv (Rose McIver). When Det. Clive Babineux (Malcom Goodwin) identifies a John Doe in the morgue…
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Tim will be guest starring as “Rick Fong” in the upcoming episode of NBC’s “Chicago PD” in episode 1.08: “Different Mistakes”. View the episode preview below: Voight (Jason Beghe) is assigned a new Internal Affairs handler, Stillwell (guest star Ian Bohen) who proves to be suspicious of Voight’s actions. During an investigation involving…
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There’s No Resisting Lookingglass’ Alluring ‘Lover’ by Hedy Weiss Chicago Sun-Times October 6, 2013 Highly Recommended Marguerite Duras, the French writer and filmmaker, was born in 1914, in what we now call Saigon. She was a child of the French colonial world of Indochina, as well as of a troubled family in which her mother,…
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Kevin Lau’s “Made In Chinatown” picked up a couple awards this year at NBC’s 2013 Short Cuts Film Festival, a festival sponsored by the network that seeks short films from diverse talent. “Chinatown’s” wins include Best Short, Best Writing for Kevin Lau and Nyssa Chow, and Best Actor for ME. The winners (including myself) will be…
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You never forget your first lover. The affair plays like a moving picture over and over in your mind: passionate, consuming, secret, taboo. Fade in: the seamy French Quarter of Southern Indochina in the 1930s where the 14-year-old impoverished schoolgirl who will someday be French novelist Marguerite Duras is about to meet and captivate a…
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[media url=”https://vimeo.com/72554153″ width=”600″ height=”400″] MADE IN CHINATOWN – Trailer from info@kevinlaufilms.com on Vimeo. A factory seamstress having an affair with the factory owner’s son must decide whether or not to tell him of her pregnancy. For upcoming screenings and more information, please visit: madeinchinatownfilm.com Total Running 17 min Cast – Elaine Kao, Tim Chiou, Tzi Ma,…
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The critically acclaimed series “Living With Models” is back for a second season with a bigger cast, bigger setting, and more reality show formats! Living With Models Season 2 Trailer The series follows Lauren (Lauren Reeder), a normal (read: boring) girl and her antics in a pseudo-reality show that replaces her…
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From the creators of “Ninja Say What?!” a short that examines race and stereotypes in Hollywood. Authenticity A Must Written, Edited, and Directed by: Viet Nguyen Produced by: Chris Nguyen and Ryan Kim Featuring: Dante Swain Tim Chiou Aliza Pearl M’saada Nia Dane Collier Mike Kelley Damon Middleton
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In July, I participated in the 2012 Summer Residency at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s conference and development lab, The Ground Floor. I took part in the workshop of “The North China Lover” – an adaptation of the best-selling book by Margerite Duras, and in some respects an adaption of the 1992 film “The Lover”. The stage play…
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