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  • Dispatches from Hot Docs: Thelonious Jazz to Pet Tigers

    05/15/09 Moviefone Inevitably, a film will pop up into the mix and you'll realize: no, you're not being too kind.  |  Cinematical.com
  • Sundance unveils shorts lineup

    12/09/08 The Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 15-25, will screen a record 96 short films, culled from 5,632 submissions from U.S. and international filmmakers.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • REVIEW | I Wish I Was a Baller: Jessica Yu's "Ping Pong Playa"

    09/03/08 After a string of documentaries, including " In the Realms of the Unreal ," and an Academy Award win for Best Documentary Short, Jessica Yu makes an unlikely, deceptively slight narrative feature debut with " Ping Pong Playa ."  |  indieWIRE
  • Opening This Week: Nic Cage's new hairpiece, Billy Elliot's dark side

    09/01/08 This week's trip to the multiplex offers a jaunt around the globe where, amongst other things, there's a case of mistaken ethnicity in Boston, Nic Cage gets another wig fitted in Thailand, there's whimsy and surrealism in Scotland and Matthew McConaughey is right at home in Malibu, where he might finally have found something he does well, maybe.  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Ping Pong Playa' Poster Premiere!

    08/12/08 Moviefone Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for the film Ping Pong Playa (click image above to enlarge), directed by Jessica Yu ( Protagonist ).  |  Cinematical.com
  • 'Ping Pong Playa' Will Fly to Screens this Fall!

    07/21/08 Moviefone Only a handful of months after I watched Jessica Yu's excellent Protagonist , a Euripides-based story about four very different men and their manifestations of obsession, another one of her films was hitting Toronto.  |  Cinematical.com
  • IFC Films picks up 'Ping Pong Playa'

    07/20/08 IFC Films has picked up U.S. rights to Jessica Yu's Asian American-themed comedy "Ping Pong Playa."  |  The Hollywood Reporter