Apparently my black and white short film , Jolly Melancholies
is going to be screening in the lobby during the theatre run
of Brown Balls at Factory Theatre in Toronto.
here's Fu-Gen's Brown Balls site: http://fu-gen.org/current-season/brown-balls/
and Factor Theatre: http://www.factorytheatre.ca/
This is a double honour for me since I screened the film at Reel Asian two years ago and my old high school friend Byron Abalos (who has been finding great success in theatre and acting) is the creator of the play.
here's a little exerpt from the fu- GEN website on what his film is about:
FU-GEN WEBSITE BROWN BALLS"I’ve been working on this play for about 5 years now and I’ve had some wonderful help on the way from the Ontario Arts Council, Cahoots Theatre Company, Carlos Bulosan Theatre and, of course, fu-GEN. In that time, it has completely transformed. Originally, it was a play for my ‘peeps.’ It was about friendship, nostalgia and old school R & B music. It was about my feelings growing up Filipino in Toronto. I wanted to write a feel good play because there’s so much crap in the world that some times you just want to laugh. But now, with the help of some friends, a special fiancé, gifted actors, and some of the best dramaturges I know, it’s become something I couldn’t have expected. My vision for Brown Balls has expanded. Now, it’s about the experience of Asian-Canadian men - not just Filipinos - in North America. It’s about gender, race, power and hegemony – not just about sex.
My goal is to take the audience for a ride. At first, I want them to laugh their asses off. But in the end, I hope that they can look at their selves and the people around them in a very different way. "
