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Screening and Discussion

January 22nd 2021
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The Donut King

Screening and Discussion

January 22nd 2021

Thank you for joining Film Fatales and Greenwich Entertainment for a screening of The Donut King and a panel discussion with Director/Cinematographer/Writer Alice Gu and Writer/Editor Carol Martori moderated by Film Fatales member Stephanie Wang-Breal.

Ted’s story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption. It’s the rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi-million-dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979 he was living the American Dream. But, in life, great rise can come with great falls.

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Panelists

A Los Angeles native, Alice Gu began her career as a Director of Photography, working with renowned directors Werner HerzogStacy Peralta, and Rory Kennedy, among others. Her commercial clients for print and live action include TBWA/ Chiat Day, Media Arts Lab, Deutsche, Edelman, Berlin Cameron, Cole & Weber, Pereira & O’Dell, Doremus, Publicis, Beats by Dre, Laird Hamilton, ESPN, FIFA, NFL, NHL, NBA, the WSL, Apple, Peta, and the American Humane Association. The Donut King is Alice’s feature directorial debut and was selected to premiere in competition at SXSW 2020. A feature-length documentary about the rise and fall of a Cambodian refugee turned donut tycoon, The Donut King is executive produced by Academy Award-winner Freida Lee Mock and produced by Logan Content in association with Scott Free Productions.

 

Carol Martori is a documentary film editor and writer. Her feature credits include Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, directed by Aaron Lieber, about the famed surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack at age 13; Love Me, directed by Jonathon Narducci, which delves into the world of international matchmaking; Jacob Rosenberg‘s directorial debut Waiting for Lightning on professional skateboarder Danny Way and his attempt to jump the Great Wall of China; The King of Luck about country music legend Willie Nelson directed by Billy Bob Thornton; and as additional editor on Dave Grohl’s Sound City about the fabled music studio where Nevermind was recorded. In addition to her feature work, Martori has edited several television documentary series from Gangland on the History Channel to The Final Report on the National Geographic Channel. Prior to her film work Martori was a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at San Diego State University, where she received her MA, specializing in gender and social movements.

Stephanie Wang-Breal uses film as a tool to subvert the narrative. Her work explores institutions and the people who reside at the core of these institutions.Stephanie’s films include Wo Ai Ni Mommy (2010), Tough Love (2014) and Blowin’ Up (2018). Wo Ai Ni Mommy was awarded the SilverDocs Grand Jury Prize, the SFIAAFF Best Documentary Award, as well as an Emmy nomination. Blowin’ Up was a New York Times’ critics pick and received the Society of Authors Award at the Film Des Femmes Festival in Paris, France. Each film was broadcast on PBS’ POV.Stephanie is a co-founder of Once in a Blue films, a female-run production company. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation, NYSCA and the Jerome Foundation; she is the recipient of a 2019 Chicken and Egg Artist Award, as well as a 2020 Creative Capital Artist Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is also commercially repped by the good guys at Good Company.

Event Partners

Founded in 2017, Greenwich Entertainment is an independent film distribution company specializing in distinctive narrative and documentary features. The company released Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s Academy Award-Winning Documentary Free Solo, which grossed over $17M at the US box office, Andrew Slater’s Echo in the Canyon, which opened to the highest per-theater-average of any documentary in 2019, and Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman