Mulan: An East Side Story Poster

Mulan: An East Side Story: Directed by Joseph Le. With Jackie SJ Kim, Leroy Nguyen, Travis Davis, Smitty Chai. 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. 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. (Produced by Team Red Pro, 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 readability 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.)