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102 years old
Hollywood, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 6/5/2008
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| General | THE MAKING OF...
Being highly influenced by comics such as Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle, who have dealt heavily with racial issues, Sameer Asad Gardezi envisioned a piece that would speak to a more modern world that moved beyond Black vs. White humor a world where racism was not limited to the Anglo and African American, but rather, open to people of all colors and creeds. In Sameers eyes, everyone had something wrong with them. What was racist was not telling the world about it.
After getting banned from several internet chat rooms pleading his case, Sameer lost all hope until Camille Mana read his script and shared his vision. Once her sitcom One on One got cancelled, mainly because the network felt there were just too many Asians on television, Camille decided to hone a new craft and produce Sameers script (because her parents pressured her).
Camille contacted Howard Duy Vu who went to his townhouse in Big Sur to read the script. He saw something no one else did a beautiful story about love, life and death. Having accidentally read the wrong script, Howard put it down, waited two weeks, then read Equal Opportunity while loading his iPod playlist from his computer and figured he could punch it out in a day or so. The only problem now was threatening a cast and crew to agree to help out. Camille and Howard left that to Sameer and all was well.
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo |
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MILLA INK!
Los Angeles, CA US
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About me:
e q u a l o p p o r t u n i t y
Strong Work Ethic. Attention to Detail. 80WPM. And a Racist.
Directed by Howard Duy Vu
Written by Sameer Asad Gardezi
Produced by Camille Mana
Casting Director Freddy Luis
STARRING
ALANNA UBACH (Meet the Fockers, Waiting), SKYLER STONE (For Your Consideration), TOM LENK (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), ALDIS HODGE (Friday Night Lights), CAMILLE MANA (Smart People), ASSAF COHEN (Entourage), JOEY GNOFFO (Benchwarmers),
MICHAEL GOLDSTROM (Comedy Central's Porn 'n' Chicken), FELIX PIRE (Phat Girlz).
FILMMAKERS
SAMEER ASAD GARDEZI (writer) is a USC Alumnus who majored in Cinema-Television and Classics. Sameer was at Nickelodeon as one of four fellows (of 1200 applicants) in their writing program. Recently, he worked on Mind of Mencia and completed a digital comedy project for ABC entitled "The 90s Were a Long Time Ago." He now writes for the new CW sitcom Aliens in America. Representation: Paradigm.
HOWARD DUY VU (director) While attending the USC School of
Cinema-Television, Howard won the Cinema Circulus Endowed Scholarship
and the Jeffrey Jones Scholarship for Excellence in Writing. His
thesis film "Running in Tall Grasses" was selected for the Kodak
Emerging Filmmakers forum at Cannes and went on to win numerous
awards. Concurrently producing the upcoming feature documentary Dirty
Hands and editing "Gesture Down / I Don't Sing," which premiered at
Sundance in 2006.
CAMILLE MANA (producer) will be seen in two feature films this spring - the anticipated Miramax feature "Smart People" from producer Michael London (Sideways), starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Thomas Haden Church, as well as the Lionsgate teen comedy feature "College" (from the producers of "Waiting"). Best known as "Lisa" the quirky underachiever on season five of UPN's long-running sitcom "One on
One" (now syndicated on The N), Camille is a UC Berkeley alumnus in only six
semesters, her writing has been featured in BackStage, Elle Girl
magazine. Representation: Leverage.
SYNOPSIS
Everyday life for an employee is rough. Everyday life for a bigot is even harder.
When a group of diverse co-workers retreat to the break room for a routine mid-day snack, a quarrel about who gets the last pineapple-flavored water turns to a heated passive-aggressive battle among man, woman, white, black, yellow, brown, purple and little. In an environment where political correctness holds no bearing and epithets are rule of law, nine co-workers must settle their differences while being as professional as possible.
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MILLA INK! presents "EQUAL OPPORTUNITY" starring ALANNA UBACH
ASSAF COHEN MICHAEL GOLDSTROM JOEY GNOFFO ALDIS HODGE
TOM LENK CAMILLE MANA FELIX PIRE and SKYLER STONE
casting director FREDDY LUIS director of photography GAVIN KELLY
production design DIANA ZENG costume design IVY CHOU makeup NALO JONES
associate producers ANTHONY BEGONIA NIC CHA KIM ZEUS QUIJANO
co-producers SAMEER ASAD GARDEZI HOWARD DUY VU
written by SAMEER ASAD GARDEZI producer CAMILLE MANA
executive producer CAMILLE MANA directed by HOWARD DUY VU
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