10th Anniversary Screening of 'The Motel'

With cast/crew in attendance, September 9 at the Japanese American National Museum



Los Angeles film fans! This is a good one. The community film series Big Trouble in Little Tokyo is proud to present a special ten-year anniversary screening of the 2005 indie coming-of-age dramedy The Motel.

In The Motel, Jeffrey Chyau stars as thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin, who lives and works at his family's seedy hour-rate motel. Alienated from his family, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a troubled yet charismatic Korean man who checks in to the motel and teaches the fatherless boy the rites of manhood.

Join writer/director Michael Kang, stars Sung Kang and Samantha Futerman, and producers Miguel Arteta and Gina Kown, as we reunite and revisit the hit Sundance feature, a decade later. It's happening Wednesday, September 9 at the Japanese American National Museum.

Here are some more details about the screening:

Kid star of 'The Motel' is all growns up

Jeffrey Chyau is now a college is kid.



Whoa. Look who's all growns up and gone to college. Jeffrey Chyau, who played the awkward pre-pubescent kid in Michael Kang's 2005 indie film The Motel, is now a student at the University of South Alabama:

Star of 'The Motel' Plans Future Outside of Film.

My favorite part is where he describes what he learned from the cast and crew of The Motel: "He saw how hard they worked for the sole benefit of loving what they did. They all had degrees from prestigious colleges but made very little money."

Jeffrey's now pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor, with no plans of returning to Hollywood anytime soon. Acting is apparently his backup plan. Smart kid.