🎬 Big News—our new brand video is here!
We premiered it at our Lunar New Year Gala, and now we’re excited to share it with all of you.
Titled “Moving Forward, Together,” the video reflects our mission, our values, and the community that inspires our work every day.
It’s also an invitation to connect (or reconnect!) with CPC—to grow with us, partner with us, advocate with us, volunteer with us, and support our work.
A project of this scale truly takes a village. We extend our deepest gratitude to the talented cast and crew—many from our community—who helped bring this vision to life and capture the spirit of our organization so authentically.
Crew
Director: @patmander
Producer: @yixincen
Director of Photography: @chewchomp
Production Manager: @jacobchungmh
Production Designer: @qiaoxingyue
AC: @haitaoc
Gaffer: @tommy____chan
Key PA: @jiaweizzz_
HMU: @jiamin_zhou
Colorist: @philchoe
Sound Designer: @sound_will
Cast
@timmycliu@misstemptasian@kathleenkwan@waichinghohknyc
Our amazing staff and community members
Voiceover
@perryyungofficial
🎥: @arri_rental
Special thanks to @ceciliachien from ARRI Rental.
📣 Turn the sound up, feel inspired, and let’s move forward—together. 🚀
#MovingForwardTogether #CommunityRoots #CollectiveImpact #BrandStory
Highlighting “A Father’s Son”
Directed by @patmander
Cinematography by Jason Chew @chewchomp
Starring @ronnychieng@tzima8@perryyungofficial
Steadicam by me @chrisungcodp
Gaffer 👑 ⚡️ @noochgrg
I remember this freezing night. We were an Asian crew making a detective pilot about a gang crime in Chinatown. There was a respect, a shorthand and a bond that was very special. Also look how much metal was on this camera before I started balancing. Please go watch this film.
Caption Commentary by Jason below.
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(1) Detective Jack Yu finds out there is no evidence to tell them who killed the young gang member. We loaned this space from CPC, a Chinatown community organization. We used practicals that were already there and switched out our own bulbs. Rigged just a few 4ft quasars with honeycrates and aputure 300d for a daylight splash on the back wall. We had a magnetic quasar just in Jack Yu’s cubicle to give him a little pop of light.
(2) We used a split diopter in order to get them both in focus. This is a technique I saw first in Reservoir Dogs. We wanted to have the father character feel like he was invading Jack’s space, getting inside his head and show how much power he had over his son.
(3) The Alleyway scene was a real run and gun operation. We shot late night and had a permit but the streets were not blocked off so we needed to be fast and not block traffic. Jack turns a corner to find a weapon laying on the ground. This scene was lit with only a few magnetic quasars and a small red LED panel attached to a gorilla pod and hung from the store’s awning to create the red color splash on the metal roll down gate. We were lucky to find a harsh blueish top light coming from the street lamp above.
(4) Our key light was a DMG Lumiere Maxi Mix from Rosco, blasted through the windows without any diffusion to create some kind of overcast feel coming in from the outside.
(5) Tzi Ma’s apt We lit mostly with 4ft quasars with some diffusion and blackwrap. We used some Digital Sputnik DS3 units bounced off walls to add some kicks here and there. We didn’t have time to ND the windows so we just let them blow out. #cinematographer #aapi #chinese #chinatownnyc
A Father’s Son behind-the-scene photos.
Breaking down the scene between father (@perryyungofficial ) and son (@ronnychieng )
Special Thanks to @grayson_chin
📸: @liachangphotography
🎥: @chewchomp
👕: @verachowdesigns
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#DetJackYu #Chinatown #NewYorkCity #ChineseAmerican #AsianAmerican #nycchinatown #film #HenryChang #ChinatownBeat #DetectiveStory #PerryYung #RonnyChieng #actorslife #fatherson #behindthescenes #castandcrew
