Edward J. Pei

Películas

Super Sweet 16: The Movie
Cinematography
Two best friends try to outdo each other as their respective sweet 16 parties approach.
Cocodrilo, un asesino en serie
Director of Photography
En un remoto lugar de África existe un depredador que ha acabado con más de 300 vidas humanas. Inspirada en un caso real, la película relata la historia de un equipo de televisión americano que se marcha a África para hacer un reportaje. El horror comienza cuando el productor, el cámara y el resto del equipo se internan en el río. Cuanto más se acercan al sujeto de su noticia, más se aproxima la muerte.
Smile
Director of Photography
Introducida a una oportunidad de voluntariado con el Programa de Regalo del Doctor, Katie (Mika Boorem) se apunta a un viaje a China, donde conoce a Lin (Yi Ding), una chica con quien comparte un cumpleaños. Lin tiene una deformidad facial que la desalienta de mostrar su rostro, pero su amistad con Katie la ayuda a comenzar a ver la vida de una manera nueva.
Sexual Life
Director of Photography
As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a teenager, a wedding photographer and a hotel desk clerk — converge on a carousel of carnal encounters.
Feast of All Saints
Director of Photography
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
La Princesa y el Marine
Cinematography
Basado en una historia real, el marine estadounidense Jason Johnson (Goselaar) es enviado al Emirato de Bahrein. Mientras está allí, conoce y se enamora de una joven encantadora y enérgica, Meriam (Nichols), sin darse cuenta de que realmente es miembro de la Familia Real de Bahrein. Meriam, que no desea consentir un matrimonio arreglado, sabe que su relación amorosa con Jason es peligrosa, ya que él es un cristiano mormón y ella una musulmana. Sus padres nunca consentirían en su pareja, por lo que Meriam y Jason corren contra el tiempo para escapar de Bahrein y llegar a los Estados Unidos, donde pueden casarse. Si Meriam es enviada de vuelta, sin embargo, su vida puede estar en peligro.
Little Richard
Cinematography
The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a Black singer in the 1950s, to his born-again phase and brief "retirement" from rock and roll.
The Disciples
Director of Photography
Four highly trained martial artists are dispatched to protect a high-profile baseball player from hired kidnappers.
As Time Runs Out
Director of Photography
A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.
Border Line
Director of Photography
Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder with the help of private detective Mario Sparks and INS officer Dan McIvers. As the investigation continues and Westlin uncovers a human-smuggling ring, Westlin's nanny Maria jeopardizes her life to protect Westlin and her daughter.
Emma's Wish
Director of Photography
A lonely retirement home resident obtains a magical ring on her 75th birthday which grants her wish to again be young. Awakening the next morning she finds herself to be 40 years old again. She leaves the home and takes a position as a housekeeper for her daughter, who does not recognize her.
Little Girl Fly Away
Cinematography
Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.
The Long Island Incident
Director of Photography
On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Carolyn McCarthy, a woman whose husband is killed and her 26 year old son is severely wounded in the massacre. The result is she is forced out of her comfortable suburban existence and she becomes an out-spoken crusader against assault weapons. The film shifts from her perspective to the mind of the killer and finally to the media frenzy that surrounds both.
Urgente por accidente
Director of Photography
Un joven, pensando que su novia le está siendo infiel, le envía una carta... pero luego se da cuenta de que estaba equivocado. Ahora sólo tiene 24 horas para impedir que la misiva llegue a su destino y así evitar un desastre de insospechadas consecuencias.
Friends 'Til The End
Director of Photography
Heather and Suzanne were childhood friends, both singers, who have always been competing against each other. The insecure Suzanne, who usually lost all the competitions, grows emotionally disturbed and hyper-competitive and carrying a grudge against Heather. The young woman, under a false name, enrolls the same college where Heather goes, with the intention of destroying her life...
Panther
Director of Photography
"Panther" narra los orígenes del grupo de defensa personal "Los Pantera Negras". Después del fracaso de la lucha pacífica del Dr. Martin Luther King, van a desencadenarse una serie de enfrentamientos entre sectores de la población afroamericana y la policía. Entonces aparecen los 'Panteras Negras', una forma de lucha armada de la comunidad negra. Para intentar menguar su fuerza, el FBI introducirá la droga entre sus miembros para hacer tambalaearse la agrupación.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Director of Photography
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
Sólo el más fuerte
Director of Photography
Louis Stevens es un boina verde destinado en Brasil, que tras su licenciatura en el ejército vuelve a Los Angeles. Aquí vuelve a encontrarse con su antiguo jefe, quien le convence para que imparta un programa piloto del arte marcial brasileño (el Kapoeira) con jóvenes violentos del instituto. Elegirá a los doce peores estudiantes para iniciarles en el conocimiento de sí mismos a través del control de su cuerpo.
Getting Up and Going Home
Director of Photography
A middle-aged lawyer struggles to face his inner demons as he finds himself embroiled in affairs with three separate women.
La noche del delirio
Director of Photography
A delusional babysitter goes on a psychotic rampage, putting the little girl she is looking after in grave danger.
Night of the Warrior
Director of Photography
A kickboxer has an accounting problem with the mobster (Anthony Geary) who lent him money for a nightclub.
Aullidos 6 (Escalofrío: The Freaks)
Director of Photography
Un joven solitario, llamado Ian, llega a un pueblecito del desierto. Ian trabaja haciendo reparaciones en la iglesia local y evita, en todo lo posible, el contacto humano. Ian se muestra muy receloso ante la llegada inminente de la luna llena, un miedo compartido por un hombre llamado Harker, el dueño de un circo ambulante de monstruos. Consciente de que Ian es un hombre lobo genuino, Harker le chantajea para que trabaje en su circo. Aunque Harker tiene un secreto: él es un vampiro. Pero Ian se alía con los otros monstruos del circo para destruir al malvado dueño.
To Have and to Hold
Director of Photography
Based on the best selling novel by American author Mary Johnston in 1900.