UPDATED:
April 8, 2008

NOW ONLINE!!
The Yvette Lu INTERVIEW

Food for the Gods to Air on
Shaw Multicultural Channel
SMC Salutes Asian Heritage Month, 9 PM, May 25

VANCOUVER, BC -- Shaw Multicultural Channel (SMC) a Vancouver-based cable channel (Cable 109 in Vancouver) has announced the winners of its "Filmmakers Showcase" competition, a co-project of explorASIAN, an Asian heritage organization. Food for the Gods, one of the official selections, will air as part of SMC's Sunday, May 25, 2008 presentation Filmmakers Showcase: Roots & Passages, 9 PM to 11 PM, with Food for the Gods, specifically, airing at approximately 10:00 p.m. The complete Showcase re-airs Monday at 12:00 a.m. (latenight Sunday). This special broadcast is part of SMC's and explorASIAN's salute to Canada's Asian Heritage Month. Filmmakers Showcase, the complete series, will air for three Sundays during the month of May.

Food for the Gods features a majority Asian-Canadian cast, including Chinese-Canadians Yvette Lu, Beverly Wu, Amanda Louie, and Richard Hu, Indo-Canadian Shaker Paleja, Japanese-born Taka Hiro and Yuki Morita, with Ramil Omosura and Vincent Ternida both of Filipino descent. Behind the camera are producer Joe Fang, director of photography Steven Ye, makeup designer Nikhol Xu, and soundtrack erhu soloist Xu Qian, all four born in China. The film's original Asian-style soundtrack is co-composed by Yvette Lu and H. Scott Hughes. Lu is also featured as lead vocalist with harmony provided by co-star Beverly Wu. Though taking place in an otherworldly setting, the film features multiple Asian themes, from its music, to a Japanese-inspired language created specifically for the film and a fantasy back-story referencing ancient Japan.

TUNE INTO SMC, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008 at 10:00 PM when Yvette Lu and Danny Dorosh fall into forbidden love in the romantic science fiction drama Food for the Gods, directed by H. Scott Hughes.

Sheenyana (Yvette Lu) and Lt. Richard O'Conner (Danny Dorosh) fall into forbidden love in Food for the Gods.

Sheenyana (Yvette Lu), Shogoto (Taka Hiro), and Shogami (Yuki Morita), are startled by an incredible visitation.

NOW ONLINE!!
PART I of our
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
with FFTG Star Yvette Lu

BURNABY, BC -- Food-for-the-Gods.com is sitting down with FFTG star Yvette Lu.  In an exclusive three-part interview, the medical doctor turned actress has lots to talk about!  With three new films under her belt, there's no stopping this rising young artist.  CLICK HERE to read her thoughts and memories on the making of Food for the Gods and much more!

FFTG Director H. Scott Hughes speaks
at Brenham Evening Lions Club
in Brenham, Texas

BRENHAM, TX -- H. Scott Hughes, co-writer and director of the short romantic drama Food for the Gods, was the featured guest speaker for the Brenham Evening Lions Club at Purcell's Country Style Buffet in Brenham, Texas on Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Lions Clubs International is a worldwide service organization. Hughes, a Brenham native, was invited by retired Blinn College literature professor Dr. Wilfred Dietrich to talk about writing, filmmaking and his recent endeavors as a film student at Vancouver Film School in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hughes talked on a number of related topics, including the expanding TV and film industries in both British Columbia and Texas, and how the industry today is moving more and more in favor of the independent filmmaker. "All of our dreams can come true," Hughes said, quoting the late Walt Disney, "if we have the courage to pursue them."

Hughes screened the short RCMP-themed documentary Duty, produced by Hughes and directed by FFTG art director Ken MacLeod (also a native Texan). He concluded the program with a trailer for Food for the Gods.

Writer / Director
H. Scott Hughes

HOLY FRAK! 
Spaceman Shaker Paleja
in The Day the Earth Stood Still
with Keanu Reeves & Jennifer Connolly

VANCOUVER, BC -- Actor Shaker Paleja, who plays astronaut Lt. Cmdr. Monroe Bellwood in Food for the Gods, has landed another sci-fi role in the high profile, high budget remake of the 1951 classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. Paleja plays a doctor who tends to star Keanu Reeves (playing alien Klaatu), with Jennifer Connolly co-starring. Paleja's space legs continue to grow. He has already appeared as Gunnery Sergeant Hudson in the TV movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor, a new recurring character Paleja will be reprising throughout the current fourth season of Battlestar Galactica, which premeired on Friday on the Sci-Fi Channel.

Shaker Paleja in Food for the Gods.

FFTG's Yvette Lu and Taka Hiro are Servants of War
Actor/Composer Yvette Lu Stars and Composes the Music in a Cantonese / Japanese-language film set in World War II

VANCOUVER, BC -- Food for the Gods star Yvette Lu is reuniting with her FFTG co-star Taka Hiro in an upcoming historical drama Servants of War.  Lu plays the lead heroine in an English-subtitled film performed in both Cantonese and Japanese, and set during the World War II Japanese occupation of China.  As in FFTG, Lu is also composing the film's Asian-inspired musical score, with erhu solos performed by UBC's Xu Qian.

The stunning Yvette Lu in Part I of a three-part INTERVIEW.

FFTG's Beverly Wu gets married, visits a Stargate,
and sabotages yet another romance in Feature Film Exley

BURNABY, BC -- After playing the manipulative Xionko, Princess Heir of Kyontawa in the short sci-fi drama Food for the Gods, as well writing and starring in her own short film, Last Week, Beverly graduated Valedictorian from Vancouver Film School's Acting for Film and TV program. Since then, she's been on a roll. In addition to several more short films, Beverly has just wrapped her first feature film, Exley, directed by Canadian indie pioneer Larry Kent. In Food for the Gods, Princess Xionko, envious of her cousin Sheenyana, reports Sheenyana's affair with Richard to her father the king Shogoto. In Exley, Beverly threatens the bonds of romance yet again. "I play an evil, plotting bridesmaid," laughs Beverly, "and event planner!"

However, not all of Beverly's weddings and romances are fictional. Indeed, she has her own real life wedding to plan. Beverly is engaged to marry Steven Hannah, on April 26, 2008. Hannah is host of the popular Web series The Steve Hannah Show. "He is the love of my life," says Beverly. So, acting may have to slow for a few weeks--at least until after the honeymoon!

Still, if she had the chance to act on another science fiction production, she would likely jump at it. Beverly Wu makes no apologies for being a serious sci-fi aficionado. "One of the highlights of the past few months was getting to act on the set of Stargate Atlantis," says Beverly with an excited gleam, but adds, "although not for the show, unfortunately!" Beverly was at Bridge Studios in Burnaby, BC, home of Stargate and numerous other major studio productions, for a 35mm cinematography workshop hosted by Kodak. It inspired the envy of several of her sci-fi fanatic friends. "One of my friends commented, 'I officially hate you! You sat in the hallowed chair of Elizabeth Weir!'" One factor is almost certain: there will be plenty more film sets, sci-fi or otherwise, in this talented young actor's future.

FFTG co-star and singer Beverly Wu on the set of Stargate Atlantis