Dear APA FIRST WEEKEND MEMBERS,

BREAKING NEWS!

THE MOTEL - A FILM BY MICHAEL KANG - GETS PICKED UP BY PALM PICTURES

Big Congrats to director MICHAEL KANG on getting his film THE MOTEL
picked up
by PALM PICTURES! Congratulations to MATTHEW GREENFIELD, GINA KWON,
MIGUEL
ARTETA and KARIN CHIEN who produced the film along with RICHARD, ESTHER
and
EDIE SHAPRIO. It was DAVID KOH from PALM PICTURES who brokered the
deal.

The film premiered earlier this year at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
and
has been a film fest favorite across the states.

THE MOTEL features an amazing first starring role for young JEFFREY
CHAYU and
brings back one of our favorite API actors, SUNG KANG (Better Luck
Tomorrow),
to the big screen along with acclaimed actress JADE WU in the lead roles
of
this comedy drama about a young boy living and working at a sleazy
hourly rate
m otel on a strip of quiet suburban highway.

Please join us in sending out a big high five to Michael and his crew
for
getting his film out there.

Watch for more updates here at APA FIRST WEEKEND.

Woo hoo,

APA FIRST WEEKEND FILM CLUB


Below is the DAILY VARIETY Article.

Posted: Tue., Sep. 20, 2005, 10:00pm PT

Palm checks into 'Motel'

Sundance pic bought by studio

By NICOLE LAPORTE


Palm Pictures has bought "The Motel," by tyro director Michael Kang. Pic

preemed at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

The film was developed at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab in 2002, where
Kang
worked with Sundance alum Miguel Arteta, a producer on "The Motel."

"The Motel" was also produced by Matthew Greenfield, Arteta's producing
partner at Flan de Coco Films, as well as Gina Kwon and Karin Chien.

Exec producers are Richard, Esther and Edie Shapiro.

Palm Pictures' David Koh brokered the deal.

"The Motel" is the story of 13-year-old Ernest Chin, who lives and works
at a
sleazy, hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban byway.
Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest
befriends Sam Kim,
a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean-American man who has checked
in to
the motel. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.

The primarily Asian-American cast is led by Jeffrey Chyau (Ernest), Sung
Kang
(Sam) and Jade Wu.

"The Motel" is the first film that longstanding partners Greenfield and
Arteta are producing as a team. Formerly, the duo's projects, such as
Fox
Searchlight pic "The Good Girl" and Artisan Entertainment's "Chuck and
Buck"have been
helmed by Arteta and produced by Greenfield.


Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR1117929394&c=1238