Celebrate the Year of The Rat with a night of new comedy sketches by Model Majority and stand up by Andre Kim (Comedy Cellar, In Godfrey We Trust Podcast). Our Lunar New Year show is on Timeout NY’s list of "Best Things to Do for Chinese New Year". Plus there may be red envelopes. Our shows sell out so buy your tickets now!

https://thepit-nyc.com/events/model-majority-2nd-annual-lunar-new-year-show/

You don’t have to be Asian to attend but ScarJo will not be in the show.

Model Majority is NYC’s 1st all Asian-American sketch comedy team. Their sold-out shows have been on Time Out New York’s list of “Best Comedy Shows in NYC” and they were a notable featured act at NYC Sketchfest. You may have seen team members on SNL, Comedy Central, Tracy Morgan’s The Last OG, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Blue Bloods, Step Up 3, Blacklist, Ray Donovan, Law & Order: SVU; Broadway shows, UCB and top comedy clubs.

The Team:
Betsy Abraham
Alex Chester-Blank
Kevin Chew
Veronica Dang
Christine Fang
Andy Jiang
Ellen Ko
Non Kuramoto
Carol Lee
Kal Mansoor
Judith Moy
Bibin Shrestha
Julie Tran
Monica R Villa
Viet Vo
Dewey D Nguyen
Kayte Zhang

Photo by Nancy Choi

“JONES” will be screening during Festival of Cinema NYC. Follow the link below for more info and to buy tickets.

“Extinct” will be screening during the 2019 Asian American International Film Festival in New York on August 1st. Ticket info is available at the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/events/450073722238327/

“Baggage” will be premiering at Lighthouse International Film Festival on June 8th at 5 during Shorts Block 7. More information at the link below.

“Baggage” will be screening on Friday during the Who Am I? Short Dramas About Identity block at the Art Of Brooklyn Film Festival. Tickets are available at the link below.

“JONES” will be premiering at Lighthouse International Film Festival on June 7th at 1 during Shorts Block 3. More information at the link below.

Judith is the stage manager and sound designer for Model Majority, New York’s only all Asian-American sketch comedy group. They will be performing at the Magnet Theater in New York on May 26th at 9pm. Tickets are available at magnettheater.com.

“JONES” will be making its Oklahoma premiere in May at the Twister Alley Film Festival during the Drama Short Films block on Saturday, May 4th. Tickets are available at the link below.

http://www.twisteralleyfilmfestival.com/tickets.html

I will be participating in the third Women’s Weekend Film Challenge this April. There will be a screening of all challenge films at the Museum of the Moving Image following the challenge on April 18th. Ticket information coming soon.

“JONES” will be screening at the Bowery film festival on April 12th during the block “The Female Gaze.”

https://boweryfilmfestival.com/film/jones/

“The Last Straw” will be screening in LA as part of Pitch Her Productions’ Riveter screening series. More information on Pitch Her at the link below.

http://www.pitchherproductions.org/riveter-series

“Baggage” has been chosen as an official selection of the 2019 Queens World Film Festival, which will take place on March 24th at the Museum of the Moving Image. Details for tickets are available at the link below.

I'm happy to announce we have been accepted into the prestigious Katra Film Series and will be screening at Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn Wednesday, 2/27 during screening Block 2 at 8:45pm.

The audience will vote for the best short of the evening and the winner takes home over $3,000 in prizes courtesy of HiO, 3636 Studios, Final Draft, and International Screenwriters' Association. If we win the night, we go onto the finale at the end of the year for a chance to win more awards like Best Film.  Help us pack the theater with Extinct fans!

Advance tickets are now on sale for a discount until February 11th.

Link to purchase tickets: https://www.squadup.com/events/2019-katra-film-series-season-premiere

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/827520697597388

A live performance performance will be taking place of Judith Moy’s original score to The Guardian, a short animated film produced by Shenuka Corea. More info coming soon.

Extinct will be playing at Stone Creek Bar on Wednesday, February 6th at 7pm. Join us for a fun night!

Mila and Mimi Too will be playing in Florida this January at the Tally Shorts Festival! It will be featured during the #LMFAO block beginning at 5:45 alongside a few other comedic shorts. Passes are available at https://tallyshorts.com/purchase-all-fest-pass/

Mila and Mimi Too will have its Atlanta premiere at the Atlanta Comedy Festival on December 8th during the 10am-1pm block. Tickets are available for $14 per day at FilmFreeway.

If you happen to be in California on November 17th, “Mila and Mimi Too” will be having its second west coast premiere at the Palm Springs International Comedy Festival. Tickets can be purchased from this link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screenings-palm-springs-international-comedy-festival-tickets-52203956439

“Extinct” will be premiering on cable television as part of The Film Lab Presents episode titled “The Film Lab Presents No More #MeToo” on November 9th. Select broadcast information is available below. Check local listings.

• Sacramento(KBTV 8.1, Xfinity Ch.398): Friday 6:30pm

• Los Angeles (Charter Spectrum 1519): Friday 5:30 pm

• San Francisco (Xfinity Ch.238): Friday 5:30pm

• Seattle (Xfinity Ch.152): Friday 6:30pm

• Chicago (Xfinity Ch.691): Friday 3:30 pm

• Minneapolis/St Paul (Xfinity Ch. 175) : Saturday: 6:00 pm

• New York (Time Warner Cable Ch. 1519): Saturday 8:30 pm

“Mila and Mimi Too” has been named an official selection by The Film Collective for an upcoming festival. It will screen in Philadelphia on October 5th. This marks the film’s fourth official screening.