Coco Paris LLC

Westminster, CA – September 22, 2009 – Coco Paris LLC, a distribution media company based in California, announces today that it has entered into a distribution agreement to theatrically release “Dust Of Life”, a film Production from Tale End Productions, this Fall 2009. The release will cover the following territories: San Jose, CA -Houston and Dallas, Texas – Falls Church, Virginia – New Orleans, Louisiana - Orange County, CA.  

The journey of six years to bring the story to the wide screen, Dust of Life is a motion picture about displaced teens in the new Vietnamese enclave of Little Saigon in the early 90s, directed by Le-Van Kiet, a Vietnamese American filmmaker. Based on actual events, it is a careful portrait of the Vietnamese American experience that deals with adolescence in conflict with their identity as they are forced to assimilate and cope after a haunting exodus from their homeland.

“We believe that there is a real need to bring Dust of Life to a wide audience,” said Dan Tran, President of Coco Paris LLC. “It is a privilege for me to be able to share the film’s exploration of an important and complex period in many of our lives.  I am proud to support the ongoing and robust Vietnamese American film industry.”

Filmmaker’s Statement

I have always believed that the story about young Vietnamese Immigrants in the early 1990’s in Little

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Dust of Life will premier this fall 2009. Rated R for violence and language. Details of screening dates and locations will be announced first week of October 2009.

Sponsorship opportunities for this theatrical distribution are available.  Please contact Coco Paris LLC for all sponsorship inquiries.

About Dust of Life:

Website:       www.dustoflifemovie.com

Runtime:       90min Color

Language:     English and Vietnamese with English Subtitles

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Westminster, CA – December 13, 2009

ALL ABOUT DAD

A Film by Mark Tran

Coco Paris LLC is releasing ALL ABOUT DAD theatrically in HOUSTON

Coco Paris LLC is proud to release ALL ABOUT DAD, a critically acclaimed Vietnamese American film, in Houston, TX.  The film, written and directed by Mark Tran, will be showing at the FunPlex Theater starting Friday December 18, 2009.

"Four Stars. Exceptional film."
- Joanne Landers, Metblogs
"A healthy and humanistic dose of poignancy and pathos."
- Alex Luu, Vietnamese International Film Festival

Winner, Audience Award - Cinequest Film Festival
Winner, Outstanding First Film - LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
Closing Night Film - Vietnamese International Film Festival

Film Synopsys:       

Mr. Do (Chi Pham) has raised his kids to be good Catholics and to live up to his unrealistic expectations. His son Ty (David Huynh) is abandoning pre-med to chase a less practical dream, while Linh (Yvonne Truong) is keeping her fiancé’s Buddhist background a secret. However, they aren’t the only kids with secrets in the Do family. It’s time Dad faces the truth that his kids have grown up.

Delightfully hilarious, yet mixed with great tenderness and humanism, ALL ABOUT DAD addresses the familiar theme of old world father vs. new world kids with deftness and originality. It’s a masterful family portrait that’s sure to resonate with any family.

CAST:                                                  

David Huynh, Chi Pham, Yen Ly, Minh Do, Hunter Vo, Nanrisa Lee, Yvonne Truong, Steven Cloyes, Eric Callero

CREW: 

Executive Producer: Barnaby Dallas, Nick Martinez, Scott Sublett, Ned Kopp
Producer:                   Mark Tran, Todd Banhazl
Co-Producer:            Eric Banhazl, Maurice Kanbar, Long Vo
Director:                     Mark Tran
Editor:                        Jeremy Castillo
Writer:                         Mark Tran
Director of Photography:     Todd Banhazl
Music:                         Ryan Rey

ABOUT ALL ABOUT DAD: 

Official Website:      www.allaboutdadmovie.com
Runtime:                  80 minutes
Language:               English and Vietnamese
Rating:                      Un-Rated.

SHOWING INFORMATION:

Cinema Symposium 5

Operation Greenlight: Breaking into the World of Vietnamese Cinema

presents

HIDDEN GENIUS: A Short Film Competition

Rules of the contest:

·The entire submission cannot be longer than five minutes (300 seconds) in length.  Submissions in excess will be automatically disqualified.

·The film must feature a title and name of at least one director.

·Films that follow at least one of the preferred criteria will be given the strongest consideration
    -The director(s) must be of ethnic Vietnamese descent, loosely defined
    -The central theme of the film pertains to the Vietnamese experience. 

·The films will be evaluated according to their artistic and technical value by the symposium organizational committee.  Five short films will be selected to be screened at Cinema Symposium 5 on April 18, 2010 at UCLA.

·Multiple submissions per person or group are permitted, but each submission requires a separate application.

·The film must be comprehensible to an English-speaking audience.  Subtitles are acceptable.

·Members of the organizational symposium committee or of the grand jury are automatically disqualified from the competition.

·NO ENTRY FEE!

Instructions for submission:

·Please upload your film onto YouTube and submit an application form providing details about your film (including where to find it) to the symposium organizational committee.  If you do not submit an application form, your film will not be considered for nomination.

·If your film is among the 5 short films nominated, you will be contacted by the symposium organization committee to submit a high-quality digital copy of your film to be screened at the symposium and judged by the panelists.  These copies will be returned to you.  We strongly request that you attend the symposium in order to be honored for your accomplishment.

Two awards will be handed out during the evening:

· Grand Jury Award, a $500 cash prize, will be awarded by the panelists of Cinema Symposium 5, comprised of prominent filmmakers/producers in the Vietnamese film community.  The judging will take place at the event.

· Audience Award – a $250 cash prize– sponsored by CocoParis LLC ( www.cocoparisllc.com ): At the end of the screening, the audience will vote on their favorite short film.  Those votes will be counted and the results announced at the end of the symposium.

Application form can be downloaded here from www.VietFilmFest.com . 

Please email the completed application form to this address: VietFilmFest@yahoo.com

Deadline: March 15th, 2010 at 11:59PM PST.

If you have any questions, please email Lee Ngo, Co-Director of Cinema Symposium 5, at lee.ngo@gmail.com. 

Good luck!

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