In 1998, I made a short film on super 8 called “Ying-Ying Said” which featured friends Fon-Lin Nyeu, Rain Noe, Huy Dao, Jeff Ng, Benjamin Lai, and Larry Lee as actors, and Patricia Yoon as Ying-Ying’s voiceover. I completed the editing in Hans Dudelheim’s 16mm Steenbeck class at the New School in NYC. Hans invited me to present it at the 1999 New School Festival (kindly attended by Cornell co-alum Huy Dao and Arun Chaudhary, who later became one of our NYU film professors and the official White House Videographer for Barack Obama).
Professor Dudelheim told me I’d received honorable mention for the film, and later added this to my recommendation for NYU’s MFA program. Hans was a good friend whose personal memoir about being a half-Jew in Nazi Germany I helped edit in 1998 or 1999. In 1999, he accompanied me to B&H Photo to buy a digital camera before I travelled to China, where he hoped I would seek documentary material, as he had been an Emmy-winning documentarist.
Here’s one excerpt from the film, video’d off the screen rather than telecine’d (on my list!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_cR3g-3jlI