Throughout the month of May, the Pan Pacific Asian Steering Committee will highlight Asian American members—past and present—celebrating their achievements and contributions.
What is your name?
Andrew Pang
What is your classification or job?
Assistant Editor/Editor
What was your first union job?
Margin Call directed by JC Chandor
List the credits you’re most proud of.
Assistant Editor – All is Lost dir JC Chandor, Spotlight dir Tom McCarthy, and In the Heights dir Jon Chu
Editor – Alaska Daily
Who are your influences or mentors?
Influences – Wong Kar Wai, Andre Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick.
Mentor – Jay Rabinowitz
What are you watching right now?
Recently watched Bi Gan’s Resurrection.
What is your guilty pleasure – TV shows or movies?
Love on the Spectrum.
What would be your dream project to work on?
Edit for Wong Kar Wai (We said DREAM right? :))
What is your personal or professional mantra?
Worry equals waste and waste equals destruction.
What was your favorite childhood food dish?
Spam, eggs and rice.
What’s a meaningful film to you as an Asian American that you would recommend?
Minari and Who Killed Vincent Chin?
What’s your favorite AAPI month memories and any cultural or historical impacts on your life?
Watching Renee Tajima Pena and Christine Choy’s doc Who Killed Vincent Chin? which had a huge impact on me. A few years later, I had the opportunity to play Vincent Chin as an actor for an Off Broadway production of Carry the Tiger to the Mountain. Being a part of this piece as well as watching the doc, brought many things to light in terms of the struggles Asian Americans have had with racism in this country.
Secondly, the opportunity to work with Jon Chu.
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