Hello and sorry to interrupt this interview. Thank you to everyone who has been waiting for this part 2 since January. This is an update as to why it took so long for me to upload this and what has happened since.
Of course, the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes has finally gotten a little bit of media attention.
“Boogie” was released and there should be a link to that below.
I spent the month of March (2021) filming and editing a short film for the HBO Asian-Pacific Islander Visionaries program. The winners will not be announced until September. If it wins, it will get published on HBO Max. If it doesn’t win, I want to release it to my YouTube channel, so that everyone can watch it for free, because it’s an important topic.
The subject of that short film is anti-Asian hate crimes in San Francisco Chinatown and four teenage Asian art school students who join together to protect the seniors in their community. I’m very proud of it, because it has 7 Asian female lead characters. It’s called “Kung Flu: Yellow Peril Pushes Back.” It is both a standalone short film and a prequel episode for my martial arts sci-fi dystopian social-commentary series, “SF Invictus.”
When I was fundraising and casting for “Kung Flu,” I got a lot of online hate about how anti-Asian hate crimes aren’t real and that it was only Black people committing those hate crimes.
After I filmed that movie, the Georgia spa mass shooting happened. Then, I got a bunch of messages about how my film was so timely and trendy.
Media companies of all kinds started pledging to support Asian representations in media. The “Warrior” fan campaign kept growing stronger. Finally, “Warrior” was renewed for Season 3 by HBO Max.
Likewise, I spend the month of April and half of May working on an anti-police brutality advocacy project and we will be moving forward with “SF Invictus” throughout the rest of the year.
Please look forward to more previews and episodes of “SF Invictus” and to Season 3 of “Warrior.” “Warrior” is filmed in South Africa. “SF Invictus” is filmed in the real San Francisco Chinatown. Visit SFInvictus.net or XimenaZhao.net for more information and subscribe to this channel for updates.
Perry also plays the bad(ass) Chinese dads in “Boogie” and “A Father’s Son.”
“Boogie” is available on YouTube, Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango, and Alamo on Demand. For more information on “Boogie,” check out Focus Features’ webpage for it:
https://www.focusfeatures.com/boogie/watch/
“Warrior” is available on Cinemax, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime Video.
“A Father’s Son” https://www.facebook.com/watch/DetectiveJackYuOfficial/
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00:15 – How long is the flight from New York to South Africa?
02:00 – You got to see a couple different parts of Africa 30 years apart. What did you think of Johannesburg then [at the fall of apartheid] versus now?
06:04 – The differences between Trump’s and Biden’s media messaging regarding placing blame on Asians for the Covid-19 pandemic and their effects on hate crimes and domestic terrorism.
10:20 – You took 9 years off from your acting career to be a work-from-home bamboo flute-maker and dad. In “Warrior,” “Boogie,” and “A Father’s Son,” you play a Chinese-American dad. Do you think you were able to put your experiences of being a real life dad into your characters?
