Good Night Papa
Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
Description:... Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is fifteen tales for the time-poor and travel hungry. Set in Japan, Spain, China, Fiji, Mexico, Indonesia, Costa Rica and Australia, each tale uses triumph-over-adversity as its central theme.Good Night Papa (the titular story) was adapted to screenplay and won the Asian Short Screenplay Contest (U.S., 2013). It was judged by Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and produced by JBF Entertainment as a short film in 2014. The Pilgrim, in screenplay form, reached the top eight in the HollyShorts Film Festival (2014) and the semifinals of the Scriptapalooza short screenplay contest in Hollywood, (L.A., 2016). The Hunting Party was shortlisted for the Big Issue Fiction Edition (Australia, 2015) and Baby Grand made the shortlist of the Overland Victoria University Prize (Australia, 2016). Tuna Steak appears in Flesh: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology which was launched at the London Book Fair (2015), and the final story, a short screenplay called The Foonabiki Barbers, reached the semifinals of the HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood, (L.A., 2015).
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