| Congratulations
to Cleveland filmmaker Johnny Wu for officiating
last Saturday and Sunday's Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness Weekend 2000
in Columbus. Wu, a martial artist and member of United Kung-Fu Federation
of North America, judged matches in the Ohio event, which in the
past has drawn prominent athletes from across the country, including action
movies heroes like Schwarzenegger himself, Cynthia Rothrock and
Don "The Dragon" Wilson. Back here Wu and partner Greg Petusky
are close to wrapping shooting on Twisted, a multicultural, gender-twist
political thriller (with generous helpings of martial-arts) shot on 16mm
thoughout Cleveland and Lorain.
In a few
months Wu and Petusky's MDI Productions will premiere Wu's An American
History: The Resettlement of Japanese-Americans in Cleveland, a
53-minute video documentary about Northeast Ohio's connection to the
notorious forced uprooting and imprisonment of 120,000 law-abiding Japanese-American
men, women and children, most from the West Coast, after the
1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Wu says that every chapter of the Japanese-American
Citizen's League would receive a copy, and TV broadcasts on PBS here
and in Australia are a possibility.
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