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IFC speaks AMERICANese

IFC got lucky this weekend. It has just been announced that the indie company has scored the North American rights to AMERICANese, Eric Byler’s follow up to Charlotte Sometimes. IFC picked up the feature for its IFC First Take
label. It will be released in theaters and on-demand for Comcast/Cablevision simultaneously.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 23, 2006

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Based on the novel by Shawn Wong, AMERICANese deals with issues of Asian-American identity, centering on the relationships of Chinese-American Raymond Ding (Chris Tashima). Also starring in the film is Joan Chen (The Last Emperor).

Scheduled for release in 2007, AMERICANese already has a growing fan base. Byler and cast took home both the audience award for narrative feature and the jury prize for ensemble acting from the South by Southwest Film Festival.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).