After a string of documentaries, including In the Realms of the Unreal, and an Academy Award win for Best Documentary Short, Jessica Yu makes an unlikely, deceptively slight narrative feature debut ...

Almost exactly a year ago, Jessica Yu‘s Ping Pong Playa premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her first foray into feature fiction filmmaking after documentaries such as Academy Award ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - IFC Films has picked up U.S. theatrical rights to Jessica Yu's comedy "Ping Pong Playa." Sign up here. The film follows aspiring Asian American pro basketball player ...

Asian-American cinema breaks out of its identity crisis with a comedy that is competitive with the American standard while addressing social and cultural issues particular to minority audiences.