{"id":285,"date":"2021-04-01T02:08:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2025-05-04T04:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T04:11:05","slug":"screenplays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/?page_id=285","title":{"rendered":"Screenplays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Anna May <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>(formerly The Dragon and the Lotus)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"two-columns-on-desktop\">An actress consumed with the idea of becoming a movie star struggles against an industry that doesn&#8217;t have a place for her, her family&#8217;s doubts, and her own demons. This is the story of forgotten Hollywood icon, and Asian American pioneer, Anna May Wong.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Semifinalist: Austin Film Festival Screenplay &amp; Television Competition<\/li>\n<li>Second round: Sundance Screenwriter&#8217;s Lab<\/li>\n<li>Quarterfinalist: Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition<\/li>\n<li>Top 50 scripts: Launch Pad Feature Competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Wa Eh Ah-hiyah, John<\/strong> (My Brother, John)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"two-columns-on-desktop\">After a piano prodigy dies by suicide, his Taiwanese American family is left to sort through the shards of their shattered lives. A daughter rebels, another becomes fascinated by death, a mother denies, a father retreats inward. Only together can they begin to process their grief.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top 6%: Academy Nicholl Fellowships<\/li>\n<li>Second round: Sundance Screenwriter&#8217;s Lab<\/li>\n<li>Second round: Austin Film Festival Screenplay &amp; Television Competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Silent Retreat<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">(in development)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"two-columns-on-desktop\">A psychological horror-thriller about ancestral rage, revenge, and all the nasty voices in your head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna May (formerly The Dragon and the Lotus) An actress consumed with the idea of becoming a movie star struggles against an industry that doesn&#8217;t have a place for her, her family&#8217;s doubts, and her own demons. This is the story of forgotten Hollywood icon, and Asian American pioneer, Anna May Wong. Semifinalist: Austin Film <a href=\"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/?page_id=285\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elissa-huang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}