Lie well to me, Jackie Chan

Getting near to the Chinese Neighborhood in Havana was what attracted me to write Chinatown Downtown. Telling three stories to show the exotic and marvelous character of the Asian culture. From my vision, which I considered a little surrealistic, intense and full of excesses... but also humanistic... To be able to reproduce a story without aesthetic transcendentalisms and with a sensorial and hedonistic way. Asia is a continent that in our country has a lot of cultural influence. It's usual to find people with big interests in Chinese customs. My case is not exempt of this circumstance. This realization is my way to channel an interest that I have, since I was a little girl, for a culture that no matter that in many features is different from the idiosyncrasy of the Cuban, it has settled and transformed itself in such a way that nowadays shows an overlapping with our own culture. The interest consists in representing another form, but at the same time to contrast it with the Cuban one, thus making a kind of bump or perhaps contact between both of them, but in turn dealt with from very universal conflicts, such as love, emigration, fantasy, wishes... My characters hovered around my head in an exotic way with the silence that characterizes them, but with the intensity of their acts, I show a lot of what I feel and see in their text lines. Standing by my apartment window looking for inspiration so as to tell about a film, I discovered a downtown that led me further than its surface, and took me into a heavy ambience that constitutes my day by day life, which is my Chinatown where I gave to deal as a common fellow as I walk along the long alley with different characters who after arriving to the house at 405 Dragones St. turn to be my exclusive main characters, among which I feel like another one. That’s how I developed the project where this little urban district is nothing more than the land where it lives the faith about something imaginary within this big city which is Havana
Chinatown is an invitation to live the experience of what I would like to feel and say. I do not want to leave a pessimistic flavor in the spectator's mouth, but only a little of its bitterness, the bitterness and sweetness of the stories of Chan Lee, Yin, Yang, and Chitico.