Updated: 7/18/16
Congratulations to Tim Savage’s Under The Blood Red Sun, starring Academy Award winner Chris Tashima, Kyler Sakamoto, Kalama Epstein, Dann Seki, Autumn Ogawa, Will Kahele and Mina Kohara, which was named Best US Feature Film at the 2016 Love International Film Festival Awards Gala, held at the historic Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles last night.
Chris Tashima won for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Other nominations included a Best Youth Actor nod for Kyler Sakamoto and a Best Youth Actor in a Supporting Role nod for Kalama Epstein.
Under The Blood Red Sun is based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Graham Salisbury, and details the life of Tomi––a Japanese American boy whose family was sent to the internment camp during World War II.
Under the Blood Red Sun Website
LIFF’s 2016 festival was held July 9th through the 16th in Los Angeles, California.
The 2016 Love International Film Festival (LIFF) focuses on bringing films and filmmakers from the international community whose work they feel brings the world closer together and promotes love and healing through cinema. All proceeds for the 2016 LIFF will be given to the Lotus Light Children’s Charity. https://loveinternationalchildrenfilmfestival.com
Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited photographer, a multi-platform journalist, and a publicist. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and Hide and Seek. She is profiled in Examiner.com, Jade Magazine and Playbill.com.
