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    Yours Truly, Miss Chinatown

    Daisy Lin SHAPIRO 2008 USA Documentary color 60min English Beta
    Yours Truly, Miss Chinatown features the intimate stories of some unforgettable young women who vie for the title Miss Los Angeles Chinatown, while struggling to define themselves in two cultures with different values and expectations. The crown is a link to the past, while the women's lives are a sign of the changing times.
    Documentary cameras follow the lives of the three subjects for several years during a pivotal time in their lives as they are just starting to find out who they are as women. What emerges is some of the rarely heard voices of young Asian American women at the turn of the 21st century.
    Every year, more than a dozen young Asian American women compete for the crown of Miss Chinatown Los Angeles. This documentary film follows two contestants through the course of the 2003 pageant and beyond, along with their alter ego - the pimpled, whisky drinking, self proclaimed, “Miss Chinatown Second Runner Up”. As the spectacle unfolds onstage, so does the drama of their lives – there are no pat beauty pageant answers to real life struggles with love, family, culture, and life as a modern woman.

    Director

    Daisy Lin SHAPIRO

    Daisy Lin SHAPIRO is a news producer, writer and director who has won numerous awards for her coverage in community issues. She was born in Taiwan and immigrated with her parents to the United States when she was nine years old and now lives in Los Angeles. She has produced a formidable body of work at KNBC News, NBC4, and E! Entertainment Television. Also as a special projects producer she has worked on various station specials, including election coverage. She was a news writer for KCOP in Los Angeles, and has freelanced for various media outlets in Los Angeles. This is her rst independent feature documentary.

    Daisy Lin SHAPIRO

    2008 香蕉小姐選拔賽 Yours Truly, Miss Chinatown

    Director/林嘉瑜Daisy Lin SHAPIRO 

    Producer/林嘉瑜Daisy Lin SHAPIRO, Stephen C. LIU,John KEITEL 

    Cinematographer/Rene VARA

    Editor/Brian FEENEY, 林嘉瑜Daisy Lin SHAPIRO

    Music/Woody PAK

    Actor/Celeste LONSON, Priscilla TJIO, Kristina WONG

    Production & Sales Company:

    YG Productions (contact: Daisy Lin SHAPIRO)

    3000 West Alameda Ave., Suite #2201, Burbank, CA 91523 Tel: (818) 840-3906

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