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Comisery Week – Interview with Verton Banks, the Lost Love
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not[...]
Comisery Week – Interview with Nat Ho, the Assassin-in-Training
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Sheetal Sheth, the Pragmatist
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and on Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Richard Anderson, the Man with Two Roles
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and on Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Amy Hill
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It's a response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not working on screenplays[...]
Comisery Week – Interview with Jennifer Field, the Alien
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and on Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm[...]
Comisery Launches – How to Accidentally Make a Movie
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It's a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not working on screenplays and film work, I'm a correspondent for Bleeding Cool[...]
Comisery Week – Interview with Bee Vang
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and on Amazon Video. Bee Vang in "Comisery", Margin Films Today, we talk to Bee[...]
Comisery Week – Zoom Filmmaking in the Pandemic
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service Asian American Movies and on Amazon Video. Comisery poster, Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not[...]
Comisery Week – Zoom Filmmaking in the Pandemic
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Sheetal Sheth, Nat Ho, Richard Anderson, and Verton R Banks I was the co-creator, screenwriter and co-director with Quentin We made it with literally no budget and released each episode days after we filmed It was just the actors and us in front of our[...]
EXCLUSIVE: Trailer For Asian-American Sci-Fi Comedy Comisery Is Here
The film stars Amy Hill (Magnum PI, 50 First Dates), Bee Vang (Gran Torino), Sheetal Sheth (Hummingbird), Singaporean pop star Nat Ho, Jennifer Field (9-1-1), Harrison Xu (Shameless), Verton R Banks (Dollface) and Richard Anderson Asian dance/rock band The Slants provide the soundtrack for the film Get your first look at Comisery down below.   Comisery Should[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Our last chance to bring Bee Vang, Amy Hill, Harrison Xu, Nat Ho and Sheetal Sheth together Jennifer Field couldn't make it because she was rehearsing another webseries that day and I had written the script to account for that Her character Camila had to be back for the end, so we would shoot her[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Harrison, Bee Vang, Sheetal Sheth, and Nat Ho in a group chat The challenge in writing this is how to make it compelling? How to keep it interesting? We have no fight scenes, no explosions, no chase scenes, just four people talking about various types of uncertainty Kel about his identity and whether he's the[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Bee Vang is back as Skylar, the character around whom all the craziness revolves, as is Harrison Xu as his friend Kel, the catalyst for kicking off the whole crazy plot of the series Sheetal and Nat's characters get drawn into it and add another wrinkle to the story Consider it adding more characters to[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Bee Vang continues to get more comfortable and charming as Skylar Harrison Xu nailed alleged time traveler Kel from day one Amy Hill was effortless as Skylar's therapist Mary Suzuki Consummate character actor Richard Anderson returns as Dave the racist troll and I also wrote another role for him: Howard Hapman, Camila's boss. I'd been looking[...]
Comisery Production Diary – Week 2: All Hail Amy Hill
We rehearsed on Tuesday afternoon and shot on Thursday afternoon. Bee Vang, who plays Skylar, is settling into their role as a nonbinary person who just wants to mourn their late boyfriend-in-piece but ends up surrounded by weird stuff He's looser, and with that, he becomes funnier We got Richard Anderson to play a racist troll[...]
Comisery: How We Put Together A SciFi Webseries in a Week
That we got six actors signing on almost immediately is a sign that Comisery is a worthwhile project. Comisery Poster Art The Rehearsal For the pilot, we introduce the three lead characters, played by Hmong actor and activist Bee Vang, Chinese-American actor Harrison Xu and former Miss Asian-America Jennifer Field Bee had been in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino,[...]
Comisery: How We Put Together A SciFi Webseries in a Week
By Thursday we had our full cast of six actors – Amy Hill, Sheetal Sheth, Bee Vang, Jennifer Field, Harrison Xu, and Nat Ho Their roles would be written especially for them, and these would be unique, very specific, and wacky characters they would be playing All in a week And a week after that, we[...]
Sci-Fi Comedy Web Series Pilot Comisery Heads Your Way Memorial Day
Did we mention that it's also a much-needed comedy? Because that's what we can expect when Quentin Lee (White Frog, The People I've Slept With, Comedy InvAsian) and Adi Tantimedh's ("The Ravi PI" series from Simon & Schuster) pilot for Comisery streams on the Asian American Movies' Facebook page as well as at the pilot's[...]