Mulan: An East Side Story (film series)

What Is This Project?
Mulan: An East Side Story is a live-action musical based on the tale we all know and love: Mulan. Our twist on the Disney story takes place in modern day.

Unlike the original story, our interpretation has our hero, Mulan, attempt to join an all-male pack of thugs in order to seek revenge against a rival gang rather than being one of the girls that hang out in the kitchen.  Through her journey, she learns to overcome her adversities by embracing her unique identity against all odds.

Why We Are Making This
Disney’s Mulan was an important influential animated film, especially for the Asian-American members of Team Red Pro. This film awakened a special strength in our racial identity - it gave us pride in being Asian in a world where most mainstream media protagonists were rarely people of color.

In the simplest sense, our short-film, Mulan: An East Side Story will be Team Red Pro’s love-letter to Disney’s Mulan. We will be paying homage to the aspects that made the original animated film amazing (including the music and action); all while blending in our original style.

What Does My Money Do?
Financial support allows us to help take care of our team appropriately while also arming us with worthwhile equipment. Your support would allow us to pay for the following:

- Cast
- Crew
- Craft services (full bellies = a happy, healthy team)
- Gear purchase and rentals
- Location rentals
- Filming and gear Insurance
- Filming permits
- Editing, software
- Travel and lodging

We will continually add updates to this page on our progress for the Mulan: An East Side Story and new projects we brainstorm. We plan on finding ways to thank our supporters by keeping you in the loop first with exclusive updates and behind the scenes spotlights. The best part of being a team of creatives is we’re always brainstorming new ideas! 

Who is Team Red Pro?
Team Red Pro  is a diverse collective of creatives who all have a common goal: telling great stories. We all come from various backgrounds and have varied experiences, so we want to create content that highlights components that are important to us by uplifting all cultures and backgrounds. Growing up, and even until recently, many of us had limited relatability to the “Hollywood standard”. A lot of us got our “start” making more of what we wanted to see in the movies, on posters, and in the world. We value diversity and uplifting people’s talents and interests in order to create more captivating content we can all experience. We hope that our work inspires young talent to find the courage to pursue their dreams, the way we did ours. 

Team Red Pro was founded by Joseph Le but has come to include so many people and other collaborating production teams. It has become more than any one person but we all strive for the same end: an engaging visual experience, and a compelling story. 

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Continuing Our Legacy (Past Works)
Even when Team Red was just a twinkle in our eyes, we all spent much of our time creating various works. Our passion has driven us to keep getting better and we hope that with your generous donations, we can continue our progress. 

Afro Samurai was our first budgeted film that was funded through crowdfunding. We are eternally grateful for the support from our fans for that movie and believe we have honored their donations with a worthy movie. The support we’ve received from past projects has given us confidence to make Mulan: An East Side Story. We look to continue our journey in making videos that we think are interesting, intriguing, and fun to watch. 

Please donate, share, like, subscribe, give us constructive feedback, any way you feel comfortable in showing your support—we will be forever grateful. 


Special Thanks
While much of this has come out of our pockets, we couldn’t have gotten here without the help of friends, family, and the community. For Mulan: An East Side Story we would like to give particular thanks to IVEA group, The Spot Asian Food Hall, and Honey Booth for their support. Because of them we wouldn’t have had some of those really cool scene locations. 
We are also grateful to the Hawkins family for allowing us to use their home as a location and feeding our team while there. We were also honored to use the home of another team member, Tariq Al Monsieur, for some of our location shots. 

This is a great reminder of how amazing everything comes together with the help of others and how important our community is to us. Thank you so much to everyone that’s believed in us and continue to do so. 


The Team
It takes a village to make something incredible, and this video was no different. A huge thank you to everyone who was part of the team. Your efforts, hard work, and passion did not go unnoticed! 

Directed & Storyboard - JOSEPH LE

Music by - ALEX KANE

Producers & Assistant Directors - AIMEE HAWKINS & ASHLEY PATRICK

Director of Photography - VINH LE

Guitarist - PETER LE

Recording Engineer - DAVID JOHNSON & ALEX KANE

”I’ll Make A Thug Outta You”  Lead Vocals - LEROY NGUYEN

”I’ll Make A Thug Outta You” Lyrics - LEROY NGUYEN & ALEX KANE

Script - ASHLEY PATRICK, ROBIN CALVO, JOSEPH LE

Intro Dialogue Script - LEROY NGUYEN

CAST:

JACKIE KIM as Mulan

LEROY NGUYENas “Lefty”

TRAVIS DAVIS as Jackson aka “Righty”

SMITTY CHAI as Smitty

Tiger Recruits -
GARRETT TAIRA
RICHARD POR
ROBIN CALVO
DAMON L. GIBSON JR.
ALEX AU

Lefty's Dancing Tigers -
JON HAN
CHESTER VILLANUEVA 
VINCENT NGUYEN
TAM THANH

Swole Tigers -
SAMUEL JOON LEE
RAYMON TRANG
GENE RUSH

Gambler Gang -
SAM SLATER
ZACHARY STETKA
KAITLYN HILLER
MICHAEL JOHNSON
WILL CHAING

Tiger Thugs - 
TARIQ Al Monseur
PIANKHI ZIMMERMAN
TIM WANG
GARY HWANG
RICHIE INTHASOROTH
WILL CHAING
PETER CHAN
MICHAEL JOHNSON
JOSEPH LE
GENESIS CANICOSA

Tiger Girlfriends -
ANNA NGUYEN
MADISON BONDOC
ASHLEY PATRICK
AIMEE HAWKINS
HEATHER CARLSON
PHILECIA HOFFER
JESSLYN G. RIANG
 
Other Characters -
ALEX KANE Police Officer
MADISON BONDOC Purse Lady
VINH LE Chill Guy
AIMEE HAWKINS Jogger

Executive Producer - JOSEPH LE

Assistant Producers - GARRETT TAIRA, ROBIN CALVO, & GARY HWANG

Vocal Coach & Music Supervisor - ASHLEY PATRICK

Editor & Sound Designer - JOSEPH LE

Colorist - SAMMY YOON

Gaffer - NATHAN COLBY & STEPHEN HAN

Camera Operators - SAM SONG & SAMMY YOON

Action Camera Operator - JOSEPH LE

1st Assistant Camera - DOMINIQUE MARRO

Camera PA & On-Set Editor - ALAN DANG

2nd Assistant Cam + DIT - SAMMY YOON

Gaffer/Grip, Camera PA & Location Sound - ALEX AU

Production Assistants - LIZ JAMORA, JESSICA BARKER, TARIQ AL MONSEUR, ANNA NGUYEN

BTS Video - SAM CHOI & GARRETT TAIRA

BTS Photography - JEN EUN, ALEX AU, & LIZ JAMORA

Photographer - JUSTIN ROBINSON

Dance Choreographer -LAUREN DE VERA

Fight Choreography - JOSEPH LE

Assistant Fight Choreography - LEROY NGUYEN, ROBIN CALVO, DOMINIQUE MARRO, SAMUEL JOON LEE, & DAMON L. GIBSON JR.

Mulan Stunt Double - ANGELA JORDAN

Stunts - ROBIN CALVO, DAMON L. GIBSON JR., SAMUEL JOON LEE, & RICHIE INTHASOROTH

Pre-Viz Stunts - JOSEPH LE, ROBIN CALVO, KAITLYN HILLER, DOMINIQUE MARRO, TARELL BULLOCK, ZACHARY STETKA,  &

DAMON L. GIBSON JR.

Photography (Marketing) - JUSTIN ROBINSON

Marketing - LIZ JAMORA, AIMEE HAWKINS, ASHLEY PATRICK

”Reflection"  Jazz Piano - KEN MARUT

"Reflection"  Vocalist - ANNA NGUYEN

“I’ll Make A Thug Outta You”  Extra Vocals - ALEXYA GARCIA & ALEX KANE

Art Department - DYLAN HOANG, AN LY, ALEX AU, & MAMA LE

Props - ALEX AU, AIMEE HAWKINS, & JOSEPH LE

Makeup Artist - AIMEE HAWKINS

Catering - CHRIS JUN, HAERUN RO


JAIYO!