David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

Perfil

David Henry Hwang

Filmes

On Broadway
Self
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Self
John Lithgow, Christine Baranski, Brian Stokes Mitchell and other Broadway stars on how the Broadway community has responded to COVID-19, finding creative ways to perform during the shutdown and how the pandemic could change show business.
Daughter of Shanghai
Himself
A documentary about the life of Tsai Chin, one of the first Chinese actresses to break into the West.
Phởmily Feud
Writer
A brother and sister's competitiveness reaches new heights as they attempt to outdo each other by spicing up their phở.
Bondage
Writer
An amusing, extraordinarily insightful conversation between client and service provider takes place in admittedly a most unlikely location; a location where what one would expect turns out to be quite the opposite than the anticipated. The unlikely location is Tiffany's fantasy dungeon, where anything is possible. The result... A challenge to the nature of existence and the essence of love.
Yellow Face
Producer
A YouTube adaption of David Henry Hwang's play about race, identity, politics, and casting.
Yellow Face
Story
A YouTube adaption of David Henry Hwang's play about race, identity, politics, and casting.
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
Sapo Branco
Executive Producer
Nick tem síndrome de Asperger e idolatra seu irmão Chaz. Quando ele morre em um acidente, sua vida muda: agora, não lutará só contra a dor da perda do irmão, mas também pelo fato de ser incompreendido pelos seus angustiados pais.
Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland
Writer
A live recording of the premier of Korean composer Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland opera at National Theater Munich in June 2007. It is a modern opera based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel of the same name. The amazing characters Alice meets are portrayed with a colorful combination of puppets and singer-actors.
Long Story Short
Self
Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter, actress Jodi Long.
Hollywood Chinese
Self
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker, Arthur Dong, this documentary is a voyage through a century of cinematic delights, intrigues and treasures. It weaves together a wondrous portrait of actors, directors, writers, and movie icons who have defined American feature films, from the silent era to the current new wave of Asian American cinema. At once entertaining and enlightening, Hollywood Chinese reveals long-untold stories behind the Asian faces that have graced the silver screen, and weaves a rich and complicated tapestry, one marked by unforgettable performances and groundbreaking films, but also by a tangled history of race and representation.
Masters of the Pillow
Traces the making of UC-Davis professor Darrell Hamamoto's first-ever Asian American porn movie ("Skin on Skin") from planning to production. Hou interviews filmmakers Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow") and Eric Byler ("Charlotte Sometimes"), professor Elaine Kim and playwright David Henry Hwang to get at whether Asian America truly needs its own "porno practices" as a way of decolonizing the community's collective sexual imaginations and confronting how sexuality and masculinity are treated in the Asian American community.
Possessão
Screenstory
Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), uma brilhante acadêmica inglesa, está pesquisando a vida e a obra do poeta Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) é um americano que está em Londres para estudar Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), conhecido por uma coleção de poemas dedicado a sua mulher. Quando Maud e Roland descobrem um pacote de cartas que parecem ser de Ash para La Motte, seguem uma série de pistas pela Inglaterra, ecoando a jornada do casal mais de um século depois.
Um Amor Assassino
Writer
O novo recruta do FBI Kevin Walker recebe a tarefa de identificar comunistas no bairro chinês em São Francisco. Como não encontra nenhum, é forçado a mostrar resultados e indicia Chen Jung Song, um trabalhador chinês inocente. A farsa resulta em tragédia e um Kevin consumido pela culpa se sente obrigado a proteger a linda filha de Song, Marilyn. Kevin e Marilyn se apaixonam, mas o passado do agente não o abandona.
M. Butterfly
Executive Producer
Rene Gallimard é um diplomada francês a serviço em Pequim. Ao assistir a uma apresentação da ópera "Madame Butterfly" de Puccini ele fica obcecado pela graça e beleza da contara Song Liling. Gallimard passa então a persegui-la por todos os lugares, envolvendo-se cada vez mais com o exótico mundo ca cultura chinesa. Quando finalmente, a força de sua paixão transforma-se em um intenso romance, ele acaba conduzindo a um jogo imprevisivel de interesses politicos e revelações que mudarão por completo sua vida.
M. Butterfly
Screenplay
Rene Gallimard é um diplomada francês a serviço em Pequim. Ao assistir a uma apresentação da ópera "Madame Butterfly" de Puccini ele fica obcecado pela graça e beleza da contara Song Liling. Gallimard passa então a persegui-la por todos os lugares, envolvendo-se cada vez mais com o exótico mundo ca cultura chinesa. Quando finalmente, a força de sua paixão transforma-se em um intenso romance, ele acaba conduzindo a um jogo imprevisivel de interesses politicos e revelações que mudarão por completo sua vida.
Homes Apart: Korea
Writer
They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families were torn apart. By the early 90s, as the rest of the world celebrated the end of the Cold War, Koreans remain separated between North and South, fearing the threat of mutual destruction. Beginning with one man's journey to reunite with his sister in North Korea, filmmakers Takagi and Choy reveal the personal, social and political dimensions of one of the last divided nations on earth. The film was also the first US project to get permission to film in both South & North Korea.
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
Screenplay
A biopic of Anna May Wong, the Golden Age icon whose career brought her international recognition even as she continued to face opportunity limitations in the industry and other forms of prejudice and discrimination.
Hunchback
Writer
Live-action adaptation of Disney's animated musical version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
TURA!
Self (archive footage)
Incredible True Life Story of the Russ Meyer & Burlesque Superstar, Asian American Cinema Pioneer and Ultimate Self-Empowered Female. A loving look at one of the big screen's most dynamic and exciting talents, the late, great Tura Satana.