Actor Growth

Well, the Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon is of course over. However, there is apparently a lot of rumblings about one of the winning entries. The reason for the controversy from what I understand is that this competition was originally designed as a way to help promote Asians involved in the film industry.

Now one of the stipulations to the entry is that one principal actor must be of an Asian decent. For one of the films that won, the two lead roles were Caucasian actors and the person who was Asian played an almost non existent role in the film. Essential, to many it was like the person was thrown in just to satisfy the requirement.

I know one team who was competing did a movie in a similar genre as that one and they were definitely outraged over that apparently as they were definitely there to win it. For my team, with all of our obstacles we were more happy with the fact that we made a film still despite all odds.

In my personal opinion though, I thought there were many films that were a lot better than the one in question of this controversy. The story wasn’t that compelling and it was a pretty standard film. Guess it is just me maybe, but I was more impressed with some of the films that obviously did not have the best budget or resources as it seemed like they took more risk.

Wonder how all this will affect the event for the future.