DESI2 returns to Canada

Following successful screenings in Washington, DC and San Diego, I Want To Be A Desi 2 received its Canadian premiere at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival on November 6 and will enter the new year screening at The ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival on Saturday January 30, 2010. Q&A with director Allan Tong and co-producer and "Desi" Dinesh Sachdev willfollow.


Full schedule will soon be up at www.reframefilmfestival.ca

Casting Call for I Want To Be A Desi

Nov. 24: I'm casting South Asian actors for the Dec.6 shoot of I WANT TO BE A DESI, the comedy version of "DESI 2." This is an ACTRA TIP project (BravoFact), so all actors and background performers must belong to ACTRA:

SA FEMALE 1: background role: early-20s to play a virginal, naive Indian bachelorette.

SA FEMALE 2: actor role: early/mid 20s to play glamorous Bollywood bride who becomes a gold-digger.

SA MALE: 30s-up: actor role; business owner type who runs a "Desi School." Looks legit, but is really a little sneaky.

ASIAN/FILIPINO FEMALE: background role: 30s-up to play a nanny.

To apply: e-mail CV, headshot and agent details to tong.allan@gmail.com. Auditions scheduled. No calls, please.

Desi 2 at Vancouver Asian Film Fest

Following two screenings at San Diego Asian Film Festival and Washington's DC APA last month, I Want To Be A Desi 2 continues its festival tour with a screening at The Vancouver Asian Film Festival on Friday, Nov.6 in the Mighty Asians & Funny Canadians program.

DESI 2 plays San Diego

I WANT TO BE A DESI 2 continues its American festival run with not one, but *two* screenings at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in the American Dreams and Reflections program:

Friday, October 16 @ 4:00 pm (free screening)
Tuesday, October 27 @ 5:40 pm

@ The UltraStar Theater
7510 Hazard Center Drive, located off Friars Road at 163, San Diego, CA

Full details and ticketing info:
http://sdaff.bside.com/2009/films/americandreamsandreflections_sdaff2009

DESI Does Washington

I WANT TO BE A DESI 2 screens at the DC APA (Washington's Asian Pacific American Film Festival) on Monday, October 5 at 6:30 pm at the Canadian Embassy in the all-Canuck program, Twelve.

For tickets and more information go to http://www.apafilm.org/category/events/

Washington, San Diego & Vancouver want "Desi 2"

Washington's DC APA and Vancouver Asian film festivals join San Diego Asian in selecting I Want To Be A Desi 2 to screen in the autumn. This short documentary continues its hitting streak on the Asian film fest circuit, starting with the mid-July world premiere at New York's Asian American International Film Festival. Exact screening dates will soon be announced but the film's "tour" schedule looks something like this:

Editor Ngardy Conteh has just outputted a fresh master that will in turn be transferred to BetaSP tape that the festivals will play.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for another November screening perhaps, in of all places, Toronto.

Meanwhile, I'm busy prepping to shoot I Want To Be A Desi, the short comedy that inspired this "pre-sequel." Stay tuned...

(July 27/09) Hot on the heels of its world premiere, I WANT TO BE A DESI 2 has just been invited to screen at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in late-October. The screening will take place sometime between October 15-29 at this revered festival that celebrates film made by the Asian disapora.

Needless to say I'm excited and co-producer Dinesh Sachdev is thrilled (actually Dinesh is excited and I'm thrilled).

Stay tuned for details in the weeks to come...