C3:CONVERSE | Crafting Our Story: A Fireside Chat with the Post Production Team of The Brothers Sun

“The Brothers Sun is a 2024 Netflix Action Comedy series starring Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, Sam Song Li and Highdee Kuan. It is also a landmark series for Asian representation. Not only did the series feature an All-Asian lead cast, but behind the scenes there was a strong representation of creatives of Asian-descent crafting the show from top to bottom.

In conjunction with the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the Pan Pacific Asian Steering Committee, C3’s “Crafting Our Story” panel features the invisible artists in post production who shape the final draft of every episode through picture editing, dialogue editing, assistant editing and music composition. Moderated by Maysie Hoy, the panel will cover the importance of having representation not only in front of, but behind the camera as seen through our panelists’ collaborative experiences of making The Brothers Sun.”

Panelists:

Evita Yuepu Zhou
Evita Yuepu Zhou is a film & TV editor who has worked in both narrative and documentary in the US and China.

Evita’s most recent work, THE BROTHERS SUN starring Michelle Yeoh, has been a smash hit for Netflix, ranking in its Top 10 TV shows for 6 weeks. Her film KAMA’ĀINA,  which shines a light on Hawaii’s unhoused population, screened at MoMA’s “The Future of Film Is Female” series in 2020 and won the Best LGBTQ+ Short Award at the 2020 Palm Springs International Film Festival. Her documentary credits include Emmy-nominated WUHAN WUHAN, won Best International Feature at the 2021 Doc Edge Festival. Her doc feature CONFUCIAN DREAM, which won several awards, most notably the Special Jury Prize at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Today, Evita’s 12 years in the industry and her experiences as an immigrant inspire her future goals as an editor — to help tell the tales of the untold in film, TV and new media.

Ryan Chan
Ryan Chan is a Film and Television Editor with over twenty years of experience working on projects ranging from Live Action and Animated features to Netflix series and Documentaries. He learned his craft from some of the most respected filmmakers in the industry, having worked on nine Robert Zemeckis feature films starting with 2004’s The Polar Express, and on movies and television series produced by Steven Spielberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, Shawn Levy, Walter Parkes & Laurie MacDonald, and Brad Falchuk. His next project is a Robert Zemeckis film titled Here starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright that will be released in the Fall.

Angela Ang
Born and raised in the suburbs of LA, Angela Ang (Kwan) is a sound editor with a keen ear for dialogue and ADR editing. She grew up in a home with 5 other siblings so managing to get her own voice heard was a craft she picked up early on.Her work can be heard in films like Tenet, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and in TV series like The Brothers Sun, The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-wan Kenobi. As a way to mentally reset, she loves to catch the sunrise and sunset, a morning dedicated to writing, and a solid dim sum run in SGV with her husband and baby boy. She harbors a soft spot for foreign language films.

Allison Chang
Alison Chang is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker and storyteller, who discovered the craft of editing at a young age. This sparked a passion she has since followed from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area to the motion picture and television post-production industry in Hollywood.

She was an Assistant Editor on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s MISSING and THE BROTHERS SUN on Netflix, and an Editor on the short film DIRTY LAUNDRY, which won Best Faith-Based Short Film at both the Burbank International Film Festival and Wales International Film Festival. 

She is also passionate about AAPI representation onscreen, in development, writing rooms, and post-production, and is interested in stories that explore identity, healing, and redemption.

Nathen Matthew David
Nathan Matthew David is a Peabody award-winning and Emmy- nominated composer for film and television. Born to Filipinx immigrants, he explores a sonic palette combining Indigenous Filipinx instruments, synthesis and orchestra. Recent projects include original music for the Netflix series, ‘The Brothers Sun’, the Adele Lim directed Lionsgate film ‘Joy Ride’, original score for the Disney film ‘Chang Can Dunk; and original music for the Apple TV documentary ‘Steph Curry: Underrated’. He has also composed additional music for ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’; and original music for all three seasons of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s show ‘Young Rock’ on NBC. Past work includes synth work on Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet,’ and additional music for the second season of ‘The Mandalorian’.

Nick Lee
Nick Lee is a Grammy-nominated, global multi-platinum record producer, songwriter, composer, and instrumentalist. A native of Los Angeles, Nick’s journey began with classical piano, eventually encompassing classical and jazz trombone, which he studied at The Juilliard School in New York City. After two formative years at Juilliard, Nick returned to his roots in LA, where he embarked on his dynamic career in pop music production. In 2021, Nick played an instrumental role in crafting one of the biggest pop songs of the last decade, INDUSTRY BABY by Lil Nas X ft. Jack Harlow, leading to a meteoric rise to number one on both the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and US Top 40 radio, and two 2022 Grammy nominations in major pop and rap categories. Beyond his chart-topping success, Nick has distinguished himself as a trailblazing Asian-American producer on the global stage. His signature sound has graced the works of an array of artists, from American sensations like Ariana Grande to international icons such as BTS. In addition to his achievements in record production, Nick has seamlessly transitioned into the realm of TV and film scoring. He has lent his creativity to notable network TV shows, including NBC’s Grand Crew, FOX’s Welcome to Flatch, Netflix’s Brothers Sun, and currently Hulu’s Interior Chinatown.

Maysie Hoy (Moderator)
Ms. Hoy began her career in Vancouver, Canada when she was cast in Robert Altman’s MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER. She then left for Los Angeles and began working and acting in his films: NASHVILLE, 3 WOMEN, and A WEDDING.

It was on Altman’s BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS that she discovered her passion for film editing. Her big break came when she edited THE JOY LUCK CLUB. Her credits include: A JAZZMAN’S BLUES, THE OTHER ZOEY, AFTER LIFE OF THE PARTY, SAME TIME, NEXT CHRISTMAS, DOLLY PARTON’S HEARTSTRINGS: J.J. SNEAD, SUGAR HILL, BREAKTHROUGH, ALEX & ME, DOLLY PARTON’S: CHRISTMAS OF MANY COLORS, DOLLY PARTON’S COAT OF MANY COLOR, TYLER PERRY’S: MADEA GOES TO JAIL, FOR COLORED GIRLS, WHY DID I GET MARRIED?, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (shared credit), SMOKE, THE PLAYER (co-edited) and LOVEJONES.

Ms. Hoy is on the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and American Cinema Editors. She is a member of the Editors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture and Science.