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Terrel Seltzer is known for One Fine Day (1996), The Rendezvous (2016) and How I Got Into College (1989).
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Apr 24, 1982 · It cost less than $20,000 to produce. It's photographed in grainy black-and-white, mostly in San Francisco's Chinatown, with a cast composed entirely of Asian-American actors. It's title is...
Terrel Seltzer is a self-taught screenwriter. She learned the craft by watching and outlining literally hundreds of movies. Her career started in the Bay Area, working with SF director Wayne Wang, for whom she wrote the screenplays for the independent films Chan Is Missing and Dim Sum.
Terrel draws examples from first-rate scripts and films, adapted screenplays, and the business end of things. She would skillfully punctuate a topic with her own war stories if we asked her to speak of her experience.
After school, she would ride the BART into Berkeley every week to take her first screenwriting classes from Terrel Seltzer (“One Fine Day”), and went on to graduate magna cum laude from Chapman University with dual degrees in Screenwriting (B.A.) and Television Broadcast Journalism (B.F.A.), She has placed as a finalist in two contests ...
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart. Wayne Wang’s follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director’s signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail.
Aug 14, 2023 · Drawing inspiration from the relationship between Wang's friend (and Chan Is Missing supporting actress) Laureen Chew and her mother, Kim Chew, writer Terrel Seltzer fashioned a screenplay that...
