White and Rice
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2008
Logline
When his adopted Caucasian mom dies, 14 year old Asian American Ricky is left in a small white-washed Oregon town confused and alone until he meets Doug, a raunchy, popular teen at the local high school who is confined to a wheelchair.
Shawn Ku
Director/ Writer
Listed as one of Fade In Magazine’s “Top 100 People in Hollywood to Watch” in 2004, writer-director Shawn Ku wowed Sundance with his award-winning musical short, Pretty Dead Girl, which played at numerous film festivals worldwide. The short is currently being developed into a full-length stage production with Broadway Theatre producers, the Araca Group (Urinetown, Wicked).
Signed to direct Warner Brothers’ Dramarama while still a student at USC, Ku was hired to write and direct the musical feature film adaptation of the infamous porn Debbie Does Dallas for Universal and producer Marc Platt (Legally Blond, Wicked). He is currently directing “The American Mall,” an MTV musical film produced by Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush (High School Musical, HSM2, HSM3).