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El Chino Status

It’s been a long while since we’ve posted on our blog. We recently uploaded this short clip of the documentary onto vimeo to give you all a sneak peek… so don’t give up on us!! We’ll post more videos and a trailer as they come. Go El Chino!

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El Chino Post Production

Hi all, We’ve been hard at work in the editing room putting the film together and all I can say is… it’s a process… In February we went to Arizona to film two sisters who were good friends of Bill’s in Spain in the 1960s – Shirley Toy Tung and Violet Toy. They were wonderful

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Happy Chinese New Year!!

Hope 2012– the year of the Water Dragon– has gotten off to a great start for you and yours. Fortune tellers say this year is going to be a life-changing year ripe for self-improvement, tackling risky projects and building wealth. Let’s hope they are right! Since our last update, we’ve been toiling away on “El

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RE: Our Doritos Commercial Link

Here is the link to our Doritos Commercial – “The Last One“) Produced by: Vincent Pun Directed and Written by: Erika Hart Pun Edited by: V & E Pun Camera Operator: Loretta Conley Production Assistant: Louis Limburg Guy: Bret Colombo Gramps: Ronald Duthweiler Grandson: Louis Limburg Thanks to our crew and wonderful cast for helping

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RE: Doritos Commercial Contest

This is the first non El Chino post, I think… So every year, my friends and I talk about making a Doritos commercial for the Super Bowl Contest. And every year, we flake. This year we came up with some ideas. And my wife’s idea was the best. So we cast it and planned for

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Filming more Interviews

For the past few months the El Chino Team has been in post-production and planning the final series of interviews for the documentary. Today we’re filming an interview with a hollywood talent agent who was a bullfighter in Spain during the 1960s and was also a friend of Bill Wong. We’ll let you know how

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The El Chino Kickstarter Project: Sweet Success!!

We’d like to thank all of our family, friends, friends of friends, and those who found our project online for helping to make the El Chino Kickstarter Project a success. We couldn’t have done it without you! In the coming months, we will keep you posted on our progress. First up, we’ll film interviews and

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Serendipity at the Casa de Campo

One of the many lucky coincidences we experienced in Madrid happened on Thursday July 23rd. I’ll never forget that day because the three amigos – Jack Wong, Jorge Maza and Art Wong – all decided to go to Toledo to see a bullfight. That left Erika, LC and I – along with Paul Polansky –

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La Taberna de Antonio Sánchez

For some reason we had a difficult time finding a suitable location to film Paul – most of the open spaces had too much foot traffic or noise to be suitable. My first choice was to film him at Antonio Sanchez, which he showed us on the first day we arrived. Paul knew the manager,

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El Chino Kickstarter Update

As of this posting, we’ve raised over $6200 for the documentary through Kickstarter! We’re off to a great start with 35 days to go. Some answers to questions that some of our donors have brought up to us: Kickstarter is a legitimate fund raising website that is linked with Amazon.com. Some people have asked about

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