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Hello Everyone…. welcome to my site.
Great news for my play Juche Rules. I’ve been working on the short screenplay version for a year, with the main difficulty being trying to shorten a 30 minute play into a 15 minute screenplay. Well, it is finally becoming a reality.
We are scheduled to begin shooting next month in March 2009!
The film will be directed by Kristina Romero and stars Roy Vongtama and Ryun Yu, two actors who were in the original play. Mike Dusi is now aboard to produce and we’re off and running.
One of the difficulties regarding budget and time is that I happen to make snow and winter the setting. This is Southern California… so obviously, the budget multiplies once we have to take our actors, crew and hit the road to colder temperatures.
Fortunately, I’ve been doing some research, and me, Kristina and Roy just went on a search to find snow in L.A. That “Quest for Snow” brought us to the edge of the Angeles Forest close to Palmdale… and as we got closer and closer to the mountain, despite all warnings not too… sure enough… we all started screaming like children when the flakes started dropping down on our windshield.
Will the snow still be there in a month when we shoot? Don’t know… that’s all part of the filming game. But we’re also up against the fact that the authorities shut down the roads when snow falls in that area. Gonna be a tricky one…. but I was amazed at how the terrain does resemble North Korea!