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Ping Pong Playa screens at VAFF | Sat. November 8 | 9:30 PM
Review by Jordana Mah
Filmmaker Jessica Yu is more well known for her heavy documentaries about tortured artists (In the Realms of the Unreal) than for comedic flair. Yet, as the expression goes, don't judge a book by its cover. In Ping Pong Playa, Yu brings to life the tale of Christopher Wang, a.k.a "C-Dub", a slacker/wannabe-gangsta with failed dreams of basketball stardom and an "Angry Asian Man" complex. Having lost his job hawking cell phones at the mall, C-Dub is roped into coaching at his family's ping pong school after his mother and ping pong champion older brother are laid up with broken wrists after a car accident. Familial obligation quickly turns into defending family honour at a local ping pong competition, when a Caucasian rival seeks to steal the school's students.
Read the full review at schemamag.ca/vaff2008/
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival will be screening Ping Pong Playa on Saturday November 8 at 9:30pm at the Tinseltown (88 W Pender, Vancouver, BC).
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