A journalist named Ben Hamamoto is writing a piece about my latest film "Tre" being a first with its hapa romantic leads (Kim and Daniel), and hapa writers/director (Kim and me). This clip from the DVD bonus features is the best I have ever done explaining how mixed-race identity folds into the layers of meaning in this film and in others like "Charlotte Sometimes" and "Americanese" that deal with sex, race, and relationships. It was actually said in response to a post-screening question about the "raw" sex scenes in "Tre." I talked about "hybrid identity" and then worked my way back to answering the question.
This is one of seven chapters in the Director Q&A bonus feature on the recently released DVD, available here.
Other bonus features include a behind-the-scenes documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Reuben Aaronson, and my student film, "Kenji's Faith."
Also this is another clip from the Director Q&A feature on the DVD:
And here is the theatrical trailer.
TRE
directed by Eric Byler
written by Kimberly-Rose Wolter & Eric Byler
Daniel Cariaga, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, Erik McDowel, and Alix Koromzay.
with Teddy Chen Culver, Eric Hackett, and Jackie O'Brien
Cinematography by Rob Humphreys
Music by Michael Brook
www.TreTheMovie.com
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- Katz Ueno
- Los Angeles and Yokkaichi, California and Mie, Japan, United States
- Katz is born in Yokkaichi, Mie Japan. At the age of 3, he began filming super 8, and started programming. And he had been actively involved with track & field. The sitting and running long hours became the good combination during his early age. After getting a BA degree at Cal State. Univ., Long Beach, he has worked a several feature films and TV projects which had been released to the market. Since 1996, he has self-taught web design. Then he became the editor-in-chief of Entertainment Today, a 40-year-old entertainment weekly. He became an editor of English publication He is also the Japanese language project manager of concrete5, a web content management software in 2009, and deeply involved in Open Source It's very hard to describe his skill in short sentence. But he can shoot-chop-mix-market a film, design-program-maintain a web, and write-cover-edit-publish a news. Anything information and technology. In 2010, he is about to start his new project JapanExp. With the concepts of Explore, Express and Export Japan, and using all of his experience, he will start a new media to promote cool Japan.
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