With an MTV generation pace, Fulbeck force-feeds the viewer scores of all-too familiar Asian Female/Caucasian Male pairings in Hollywood movies, and combines them with contemporary exerpts from best-selling novels, magazine articles, dating services, and anonymous pointed questions. Some Questions for 28 Kisses pries into the causes and purposes of these created images and their relation to interracial dating patterns, ethnic fetishes, race and gender wars, and Hapa identity. The son of an Asian mother and Caucasian father, Fulbeck begins by questioning his own personal reactions to this media phenomena and its shifting intersection with real life.

Special Juror's Award: 1995 USA Film & Video Festival
Silver Carp Award: 1995 Seattle Asian American Film Festival
Finalist: Experimental Category - 1995 New York Expo of Short Film & Video
2nd Place Video: 1995 Riverwalk Arts Festival (York, PA)
Movies On A Shoestring Award: 1994 Rochester International Independent Film & Video Festival
Runner Up: Experimental - 1994 Video Tusculum Festival

"... leads the viewer on a delightfully rip-roaring jaunt through the Asian Pacific American psyche ... and delivers on its promise throughout the entire eight-and-a-half side-splitting minutes spiced with hilarity and tame lovemaking scenes between white actors and Asian actresses. White men look like overeager, horny buffoons; Asian women look like exotic sex kittens; Asian men are in the background flashing their idiotic chop-socky moves or entirely ignored. Everyone's a loser in Fulbeck's Paradise."
- Gerard Lim, Asian Week

"This is a terrific, intense, multi-media experience, deconstructing Hollywood's images of Asian Americans ... it ought to be seen by Asian American women."
- Sid Louie, Hawaii International Film Festival

"Punchy and unapologetic, "Some Questions for 28 Kisses" voices the private thoughts that we dare not say outside or our dark bedrooms."
- Soyon Im, Seattle Asian American Film Festival

Running Time: 8:30 mins
Color/Black & White, NTSC
Written, Produced & Directed by Kip Fulbeck
Sound Design: Kevin Kelly
Video Engineering: Gino Cheng
©1994 Seaweed Productions

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