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Galen was Co-Writer and Associate Producer on the Discovery Channel documentary, “Alpha Company: Iraq Diary,” which focused on the U.S. Marines after the Battle of Fallujah. Before attending graduate school, Galen received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater and Asian Studies from UCLA.
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Oct 18, 2013 · Galen Tong ‘s The Monkey King has beaten about 1,000 entrants to win the Beijing International Screenwriting Competition’s Feature Film Grand Prize, competition chair Kevin Niu announced Oct. 18.
Oct 18, 2013 · The Beijing International Screenwriting Competition has selected Galen Tong’s “The Monkey King,” set amid the Boxer Rebellion, as the winner of its $15,000 grand prize.
- Radha Bharadwaj – Telling Stories
- Nayan Padrai – Billion Dollar Raja
- Tianna Majumdar- Langham – Guns and Saris
- The India Connection
- Indians in Hollywood – Tales of Perseverance
- Hollywood & Changing Demographics
Radha Bharadwaj, who won with her script Final Boarding, is originally from Chennai and came to the US to study film and stayed on when she married David Cohen, a lawyer. She says, ” My ideal life would involve lots of trips to India: I have quite a few projects – two films and one international TV series – set fully or partially in India.” Her fir...
Nayan Padrai, whose script Billion Dollar Raja is inspired by the Rajaratnam Wall Street scandal, came into cinema the hard way. His family is from Kutch, and he was born and partly raised in Mumbai. His family came to the US when he was 9, and later he studied screenwriting and acting at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, even while worki...
The third honoree is Tianna Majumdar-Langham, who co-wrote the script of ‘Guns and Saris’ with her partner, film-maker Chris Bessounian. She is from Calcutta, daughter of a Bengali mother and British father. She spent her childhood in a small English village called Pirbright but traveled to India every year. Later the family moved to the United Sta...
Things are already looking up for ‘Guns and Saris.’ Majumdar-Langham says that their US producer is speaking with Indian producers as well as actors and hopes to shoot the film at the end of 2014. She says, ” The story is inspired by the true story of a Dalit woman in Bihar who, with the help of an upper-caste soldier, created her own army of femal...
How hard is it to break into Hollywood for these Indian-Americans? In spite of all her awards, Radha Bharadwaj says, “It’s hard. It’s always been hard, and will probably continue to be so. The statistics for employment of women directors is even more grim. And if you are a woman who defies stereotypes of what sort of content you should be doing, th...
Asked about the future of Indian-Americans in Hollywood, Padrai says, “Access to entertainment has increased, and the Indian American community in general loves cinema, so it is bound to happen that a younger generation will want to be involved in telling stories, acting, directing. Right now there are still very few Asian Americans in the industry...
Galen Tong is known for Firestorm (1996), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) and Khon fai luk (2008).
Oct 18, 2013 · Los Angeles film and TV writer Galen Tong is the feature film grand prize winner of the inaugural Beijing International Screenwriting Competition.
