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Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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 It premieres[...]

Comisery officially premieres today as a movie It's an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

In the week leading up to the premiere, the editors of Bleeding Cool have let me run a series of interviews with the cast and crew to talk about what it was like to make a movie during the lockdown, Comisery, shot on zoom, without leaving home It's a new form of narrative filmmaking that[...]

Comisery is an Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy that Quentin Lee and I created and made over eight weeks during the lockdown 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[...]

The editors of Bleeding Cool have kindly let me post a series of articles and interviews this week to promote the September 1st release of my movie Comisery on asianamericanmovies.com and Amazon Video VOD. Comisery poster, Margin Films When New York and California were in full Lockdown, my friend Quentin Lee and I shot an 8-part webseries[...]

Bleeding Cool is proud to present the trailer for the first Asian-American Sci-Fi comedy Comisery The film is from filmmaker Quentin Lee (White Frog, The People I've Slept With, Comedy InvAsian) and author Adi Tantimedh (The Ravi PI series from Simon & Schuster), and was shot during the pandemic lockdown entirely on Zoom The film[...]

And so, Quentin Lee and I reached the end of production on all 8 episodes of Comisery, our Science Fiction Comedy webseries about a group of Asian-American friends on webchat living through an alien virus invasion I still haven't come down from it There's a feeling of withdrawal whenever production ends You've been at it[...]

We head into the penultimate episode of Comisery, the Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy webseries that Quentin Lee and I concocted We created it as a fantasy about a group of Asian-Americans living through the Pandemic and Lockdown with a Science Fiction veneer The next-to-last episode Almost done. Jennifer's Japanese Horror Shot Jennifer Field, who plays Camila,[...]

Comisery, the Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy webseries that my friend Quentin Lee and I are making is down to its last three segments, last three weeks Week 6 marks the beginning of the end Scheduling also got a bit more complicated as some of our actors are now busy Jennifer Field, who plays Camila,[...]

Comisery, the Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy webseries that Quentin Lee and I are making went past the midway point last week We're now on the 5th episode with 3 left to go The past weeks have gone by so quickly that it's all becoming a bit of a blur, which is probably why I[...]

Welcome to the production diary for Episode 4 of Comisery, our modest little Asian-American apocalyptic Science Fiction screwball comedy Everyone is at home in front of their computers because we're still in lockdown My partner-in-crime Quentin Lee and I are literally a writer's room of two as we concoct the story, often turning on a[...]

Comisery Episode 3 ("Party Party Party") might be my favourite episode to date It's the one where the series finally comes together, and its narrative direction comes into focus It's the first time the entire cast is in a single episode – all six actors It also introduces Sheetal Sheth as Anika and Nat Ho[...]

Into the second week, the second episode of Comisery, our Asian-American Science Fiction Screwball Comedy set during an apocalypse where everyone has to stay home while an alien virus invades and infects humanity It's one thing to shoot the first episode of a web show on Zoom with some actors It could always be a[...]

And so, we go right into shooting the pilot of our web series Comisery This is crazy, setting up and filming in less than two weeks after the initial pitch Yet here we are, my friend Quentin Lee and I, jumping in the deep end We have no idea how this would work out –[...]

That was how fast it took to put our new web series Comisery together I know I'm a bit surprised, too But I haven't even had time to feel surprised We've been going full steam ahead all this time Comisery is a Science Fiction Screwball Comedy with an all Asian-American cast It's about a group[...]

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[...]