Deadbeat
Director: Brenda Lee Lau
Producers: Adam Davis, Wilky Lau, Brenda Lee Lau
Writers: Brenda Lee Lau, Tad Summers
Cinematographer: Bruce Alan GreeneEditor: Donna Mathewson
Synopsis:
A distraught mother, a runaway daughter, and a deadbeat dad who’s a member of the Triad’s underworld in urban Los Angeles has a dynamic twist you’ll never see coming.
web site: www.deadbeatmovie.com
BIOGRAPHIES :
Brenda Lee Lau
Writer / Director / Executive Producer
Award winning writer/producer Brenda Lee Lau has spent years creating extremely successful Entertainment Marketing campaigns for Network Television Programs including Desperate Housewives, Grey's
Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters, Ugly Betty and NYPD Blue to name a few. Using these storytelling skills she has now expanded into long form original narrative films. Deadbeat is her first film to hit the screen and focuses on her personal experience of having a bi-cultural family and living between two very different worlds. It also embraces her love of psychological thrillers and her ability to create twists at every turn.
She & her husband have a full slate of feature films and television series ready to develop and produce under their company, a bunch of productions.
Wilky Lau
Executive Producer
Award winning Creative Advertising Executive expands into narrative film. In charge of creative campaigns for niche advertising industry leader Muse
Communications, clients include Honda, Nike, Heineken, Wells Fargo and many more. Wilky's talent of identifying and targeting cross-cultural similarities is now focused on creating long form entertainment product. Wilky was born and raised in Hong Kong and moved to Canada when he was a teenager. His background gives him a unique view of the world and is the focus of a bunch of productions production slate. Languages include Cantonese, Mandarin and English.
Tad Summers
Writer
Tad Summers has been writing for several years, and "Deadbeat" has been a passion project for him, having worked on it in some form or another for ten years. He appreciates
Brenda for bringing this vision to life.
In addition to several feature length screenplays, Tad has worked in many different areas of the entertainment industry, working on shows such as "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", "Nash Bridges", "Three Sisters", "Just Cause" and "Committed".
Adam Davis
Producer
Adam Davis is an award winning writer, producer, director and editor whose entertainment career has spanned 18 years working in film and television on both
coasts. A graduate of the prestigious NYU Film School, he worked on a number of independent feature films in a variety of capacities before directing an award winning short film, "The Green Flash" starring Omar Epps (ER, The Mod Squad, House).
Moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Davis landed in television working at many production companies throughout the years for all of the major studios. As a writer and producer of television commercials, TV trailers, and series presentations, Mr. Davis helped launch and promote hundreds of television series on most of the major networks.
His last film, "The Cookie Thief" starring Eric Roberts played in over 20 film festivals worldwide.
Kim Rhodes
as K.D.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Kim Rhodes attended Southern Oregon State College, where she earned her B.F.A. in Acting. She received her Master’s in Fine Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia, and continues to train with an acting
coach. With such extensive training, it's no surprise Rhodes has graced all acting venues, from the stage to the small and big screens.
From Shakespeare to contemporary pieces, Rhodes has performed live theater across the country. She has played such notable leads as Queen Isabel in the Idaho Shakespeare Fest's presentation of Richard II, Bianca in the Taming of the Shrew and Geraldine in What the Butler Saw, both at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, Frankie in Voice of the Prairie at the Los Altos Conservatory (CA) and Jennifer in the world premiere of William Mastrosimone's Like Totally Weird at the Humana Festival. Her other theater credits include performances at Stage III (PA) of Mad Forest, Our Country's Good, Season's Greetings, and Bloody Poetry, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Present Laughter at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and numerous others.
Rhodes has also starred in a number of television series on top networks such as Disney and NBC. She is recognized today as Carey Martin, the quirky, single mother of pre-teen twin boys in Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." She was also a series regular on NBC's award-winning series "Another World" and AMC's "The Lot". Rhodes has made guest appearances in FOX's "House," CBS's "Touched by an Angel," "Without a Trace" and "CSI," NBC's "Boomtown," Lifetime's "Strong Medicine," UPN's "Star Trek: Voyager" and Sci-Fi Channel's "Invisible Man." Most recently she played a recurring role as Sheriff Jody Mills on the CW's "Supernatural." She has landed lead roles a number of films, including two Hallmark Channel movies: "Mystery Girl" (unreleased) and "Kiss at Midnight" (2008), "Desertion" (2008) , and "Mostly Ghostly" (2008). In 2004, she hit the big screen in "Christmas with the Kranks."
François Chau
as Ning Wu
François Chau is a Cambodian-American actor. He is known for his role as Dr. Pierre Chang in ABC's Lost, and as The Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
Chau was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia of Chinese and Vietnamese descent. He has appeared as Koo Yin, a Chinese consul in the drama 24. He also appeared as a Chinese diplomat in Stargate SG-1. Chau has appeared as a guest star in The Unit, NUMB3RS, ER, Baywatch, Alias, Shark, Grey's Anatomy,JAG, Medium, G.I. Joe, Lost, 9/11: The Twin Towers and as Lieutenant Winston 'Vagabond' Chang in video games Wing Commander III and Wing.
Jennifer Sun Bell
as Cricket
Jennifer Sun Bell began life in El Paso, Texas as the oldster daughter in a military family with an American father and a Korean mother. After changing schools as many as 5 times in one school year, Jennifer was still
able to achieve the goal of Valedictorian.
While in Atlanta, Georgia Jennifer found a love for acting and singing when she got involved in her high school production of Guys and Dolls. With her focus in acting, Jennifer landed numerous national commercials, independent films, and made for TV movies. Jennifer is working on her acting as well as working on music for several films while residing in Los Angeles.
Producers: Adam Davis, Wilky Lau, Brenda Lee Lau
Writers: Brenda Lee Lau, Tad Summers
Cinematographer: Bruce Alan GreeneEditor: Donna Mathewson
Synopsis:
A distraught mother, a runaway daughter, and a deadbeat dad who’s a member of the Triad’s underworld in urban Los Angeles has a dynamic twist you’ll never see coming.
web site: www.deadbeatmovie.com
BIOGRAPHIES :
Brenda Lee Lau
Writer / Director / Executive Producer
Award winning writer/producer Brenda Lee Lau has spent years creating extremely successful Entertainment Marketing campaigns for Network Television Programs including Desperate Housewives, Grey's
Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters, Ugly Betty and NYPD Blue to name a few. Using these storytelling skills she has now expanded into long form original narrative films. Deadbeat is her first film to hit the screen and focuses on her personal experience of having a bi-cultural family and living between two very different worlds. It also embraces her love of psychological thrillers and her ability to create twists at every turn.
She & her husband have a full slate of feature films and television series ready to develop and produce under their company, a bunch of productions.
Wilky Lau
Executive Producer
Award winning Creative Advertising Executive expands into narrative film. In charge of creative campaigns for niche advertising industry leader Muse
Communications, clients include Honda, Nike, Heineken, Wells Fargo and many more. Wilky's talent of identifying and targeting cross-cultural similarities is now focused on creating long form entertainment product. Wilky was born and raised in Hong Kong and moved to Canada when he was a teenager. His background gives him a unique view of the world and is the focus of a bunch of productions production slate. Languages include Cantonese, Mandarin and English.
Tad Summers
Writer
Tad Summers has been writing for several years, and "Deadbeat" has been a passion project for him, having worked on it in some form or another for ten years. He appreciates
Brenda for bringing this vision to life.
In addition to several feature length screenplays, Tad has worked in many different areas of the entertainment industry, working on shows such as "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", "Nash Bridges", "Three Sisters", "Just Cause" and "Committed".
Adam Davis
Producer
Adam Davis is an award winning writer, producer, director and editor whose entertainment career has spanned 18 years working in film and television on both
coasts. A graduate of the prestigious NYU Film School, he worked on a number of independent feature films in a variety of capacities before directing an award winning short film, "The Green Flash" starring Omar Epps (ER, The Mod Squad, House).
Moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Davis landed in television working at many production companies throughout the years for all of the major studios. As a writer and producer of television commercials, TV trailers, and series presentations, Mr. Davis helped launch and promote hundreds of television series on most of the major networks.
His last film, "The Cookie Thief" starring Eric Roberts played in over 20 film festivals worldwide.
Kim Rhodes
as K.D.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Kim Rhodes attended Southern Oregon State College, where she earned her B.F.A. in Acting. She received her Master’s in Fine Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia, and continues to train with an acting
coach. With such extensive training, it's no surprise Rhodes has graced all acting venues, from the stage to the small and big screens.
From Shakespeare to contemporary pieces, Rhodes has performed live theater across the country. She has played such notable leads as Queen Isabel in the Idaho Shakespeare Fest's presentation of Richard II, Bianca in the Taming of the Shrew and Geraldine in What the Butler Saw, both at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, Frankie in Voice of the Prairie at the Los Altos Conservatory (CA) and Jennifer in the world premiere of William Mastrosimone's Like Totally Weird at the Humana Festival. Her other theater credits include performances at Stage III (PA) of Mad Forest, Our Country's Good, Season's Greetings, and Bloody Poetry, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Present Laughter at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and numerous others.
Rhodes has also starred in a number of television series on top networks such as Disney and NBC. She is recognized today as Carey Martin, the quirky, single mother of pre-teen twin boys in Disney Channel's "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." She was also a series regular on NBC's award-winning series "Another World" and AMC's "The Lot". Rhodes has made guest appearances in FOX's "House," CBS's "Touched by an Angel," "Without a Trace" and "CSI," NBC's "Boomtown," Lifetime's "Strong Medicine," UPN's "Star Trek: Voyager" and Sci-Fi Channel's "Invisible Man." Most recently she played a recurring role as Sheriff Jody Mills on the CW's "Supernatural." She has landed lead roles a number of films, including two Hallmark Channel movies: "Mystery Girl" (unreleased) and "Kiss at Midnight" (2008), "Desertion" (2008) , and "Mostly Ghostly" (2008). In 2004, she hit the big screen in "Christmas with the Kranks."
François Chau
as Ning Wu
François Chau is a Cambodian-American actor. He is known for his role as Dr. Pierre Chang in ABC's Lost, and as The Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
Chau was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia of Chinese and Vietnamese descent. He has appeared as Koo Yin, a Chinese consul in the drama 24. He also appeared as a Chinese diplomat in Stargate SG-1. Chau has appeared as a guest star in The Unit, NUMB3RS, ER, Baywatch, Alias, Shark, Grey's Anatomy,JAG, Medium, G.I. Joe, Lost, 9/11: The Twin Towers and as Lieutenant Winston 'Vagabond' Chang in video games Wing Commander III and Wing.
Jennifer Sun Bell
as Cricket
Jennifer Sun Bell began life in El Paso, Texas as the oldster daughter in a military family with an American father and a Korean mother. After changing schools as many as 5 times in one school year, Jennifer was still
able to achieve the goal of Valedictorian.
While in Atlanta, Georgia Jennifer found a love for acting and singing when she got involved in her high school production of Guys and Dolls. With her focus in acting, Jennifer landed numerous national commercials, independent films, and made for TV movies. Jennifer is working on her acting as well as working on music for several films while residing in Los Angeles.
