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Why Am I Doing This? | Independent Film by Tom Huang
By Kwaku Adu-Poku
Why am I Doing This? is the second independent film effort brought to you by Tom Huang. Its stars Huang and Anthony Montgomery as a an actor and comedian respectively, trying to navigate the Hollywood periphery, while dealing with relationships, racial stereotypes and the prescribed images that they are being told to fit into.
It looks really funny. The dry humour, coupled with real life situations interpreted in hilarious ways makes this film one that I really want to see. Racebending interviewed Huang and he had some great insight into filmmaking and the realities that people of colour face in the industry.
I think people are definitely interested in hearing about real people's stories of any ethnicity as long as it's interesting enough and done well... It's just that studios aren't willing to take the risk.You look at Slumdog Millionaire, a movie about an Indian boy in India trying to win back his love, no studio would touch that with a 10-foot pole. So some people took a chance, made it independently, and Fox Searchlight recognized it was simply a great film and gambled it would do well because of that, and it was blockbuster. It also benefited from a planned, slow rollout where word of mouth helped get people into the theaters, and of course the Oscars helped as well.
There are plenty of other examples, such as the Joy Luck Club (a good example of actual Asian-American stories) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, etc. People are wiling to watch it, I think, it's just a matter of more studios wiling to release films based on quality rather than formulas, and also a matter of making sure films like that are made with low-budgets so it can turn a profit to help buy other films like it.
The film came out on DVD in July. Be sure to check it out, because it is only through support and word of mouth that great independent projects like this are able to thrive!
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