Baby (2007 film)

Baby is a 2007 independent film directed by Juwan Chung and starring David Huynh, Tzi Ma, Feodor Chin, Ron Yuan and Kenneth Choi. Considered part of the hood film genre, the film tells the story of an Asian-American youth's gang life in East Los Angeles, set during the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. It has been called "the Asian American Boyz n the Hood" by the San Francisco Chronicle.[1]

Baby
Directed byJuwan Chung
Produced byJason Serrato
Written byFelix Chan
Juwan Chung
StarringDavid Huynh
Tzi Ma
Ron Yuan
Kenneth Choi
Feodor Chin
Music byPaul Stottler
CinematographyJohnny Ching
Production
company
Xenon
Distributed byLionsgate
Release date
  • May 2007 (2007-05) (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival)
  • December 30, 2008 (2008-12-30) (United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film won Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and a Special Jury Award for "Outstanding Newcomer" for star David Huynh at the same film festival that year,[2] and a Best Director award for Director Juwan Chung at the 2008 DisOrient Film Festival.[3][4] It was also distributed by Lionsgate.

Synopsis

Baby is the tragic story of an Asian-American youth trapped in the seedy, dead-end world of hostess bars, pool halls and drug dens that characterize East Los Angeles gang life in the 1980s. Baby (Ryan Andres) is a motherless, poverty stricken 11-year-old with only an alcoholic father (Tzi Ma) to raise him.

Things only get worse when he's taken under the wing of his gangster neighbor Tommy (Ron Yuan), who leads him down a path that lands him in Juvenile Hall for manslaughter, with Benny (Feodor Chin) ostracizing Baby from the group. After seven violent years in prison, Baby (now portrayed by David Huynh) is released, but struggles to fit into a society that rejects him, and soon returns to a life of drugs, street gangs and murder.

Meanwhile Benny has risen through the ranks to become the local Crime Boss for a side of the Wah Ching Triad. Only his childhood friends and a lost love offer him any hope of turning his life around before it's too late.

Cast
ActorRole
David HuynhBaby
Tzi MaPops
Ron YuanTommy
Kenneth ChoiMike
Feodor ChinBenny
Kenzo LeeRoy
Aljarreau GalangRobbie
Meng WeiBlackfish
Peter ChoFat Petey
Christina StaceySammy
Janet Linn (as Linn Ko)Arianna
Ryan AndresYoung Baby
Roshon FeganYoung Robbie
Matthew DerYoung Blackfish
Austin LeeYoung Fat Petey
Shannon YangYoung Sammy
Nathan JungRestaurant Guy
Robert WuWah Ching #1

Awards
YearAwardCategory / RecipientResultRef.
2007DisOrient Asian American Film Festival AwardBest Director - Juwan ChungWon[5]
VC FilmFest AwardBest Narrative - Juwan ChungWon[6]
Best New Actor - David HuynhWon[7]

See also

References
  1. SF Gate, Current DVD Releases, http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/CURRENT-DVD-RELEASES-3779484.php
  2. Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film festival, Award Winners, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2011-10-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Baby, 2008 DisOrient Film Festival, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2013-01-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Baby, Gangs of Los Angeles, Quantum Wire, http://quantumwire.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/baby-gangs-of-los-angeles/
  5. "'Baby' - Gangs of Los Angeles". Quantum Wire. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
  6. "Awards for Juwan Chung". IMDb.com: Juwan Chung - Awards. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
  7. "Awards for David Huynh". IMDb.com: David Huynh - Awards. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
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