LIVE Virtual Event
WUXIA: The Entertainment Genre You Already Love ... But Didn't Know
Think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Matrix, Kill Bill
Hosted by Wizard World and Immortal Studios.
This event will be Live Streamed on
Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
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Sat, January 23, 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
Our Panelists
JuJu Chan Szeto is an award-winning actress and martial artist. Having won gold and other medals in international competitions for the Hong Kong Taekwondo Team, won a Championship belt in muay Thai, and being wicked with the nunchakus, she is referred to by the press as the Female Bruce Lee.
JuJu is best known for her role as Zan in Netflix TV series, Wu Assassins, where she did all her own on-screen fighting for her character. To date she has worked with some of the best known martial art stars of the new generation and was most recently a lead actress on the Nicholas Cage movie, Jiu Jitsu.
JuJu's Invite to Join Us on Jan 23
JuJu's Sizzle Reel
Gene Ching
Action Director, Associate Editor
Immortal Studios
Gene Ching is an Associate Editor and Action Director for Immortal Studios and oversaw the fight choreography in The Adept.
He is a 32nd generation disciple of the original Shaolin Temple in China and a Provost Master of Fencing.
He served as the Publisher of the newsstand magazine, Kung Fu Tai Chi, and as a Weapons Expert on El Rey Network’s Man at Arms: Art of War.
Gene's Invite to Join Us on Jan 23
Jeremy Bai is a translator and writer who specializes in Chinese genres such as wuxia, xianxia, and xuanhuan. He has translated over 13,000,000 Chinese characters, making him one of the most prolific translators of Chinese fantasy fiction in the world. He also runs a YouTube channel devoted to explaining the literary conventions and cultural aspects of Chinese fantasy. He lived in China from 2010-2018, and currently resides in Southern California with his wife and children.
How I became a translator + why I’m “Deathblade”
Peter Shiao
Founder & CEO
Immortal Studios
Peter learned the love of Wuxia from his father Shiao Yi, a leading creator in the martial arts-fantasy genre, from his earliest memories.
As an adult, he would lead the Shaolin Temple's foray into international culture from events, exhibits, film, television and games, and learn from martial masters living in mountains and cities some of the legendary practices associated with Wuxia.
He has been a serial founder-entrepreneur in the entertainment industry, producing the first ever Hollywood-Chinese film co-production, founding the first ever East-West film investment fund, and founding/chairing the US-China Film Summit.