Ukachi Arinze-Film Director

Panthea Lee's Pangeaday post profiled FilmMaker Ukachi Arinze, who recently finished work on a Clamfilms production 'Relentless':

Ukachi Arinzeh is a Shanghai-based independent filmmaker who has worked on projects for the likes of Current TV and “Chappelle’s Show”. Here, he presents a quartet of shorts filmed across three continents:

* “Skating in the Hai” explores the surge of skateboarding in Shanghai and how the movement has connected young people of different nationalities.

* “Red Ink” looks at the evolution of and changes occurring in present-day China by examining the development of Chinese contemporary art.

* Young, talented rappers in Cuba find their voices and liberation through the underground hip-hop scene in “I Am Hip Hop”.

* “The Bush and the Cross” examines how traditional Ibo culture attempts to coexist with the teachings of the Catholic church in small-town Nigeria.

He goes on to don his fashionista diaspora hat for City Weekend:

While he's not splashing around the alleyways of our city, this self-proclaimed "pretty frugal shopper" is scouting other cheap (but fantastic) purchases. The tie that he is wearing was found at "some cheap market," the "vest" is really a reincarnation of a t-shirt he found in a vintage shop in New York City and the colorful umbrella came courtesy of a street vendor outside of the Changshu Lu subway station.

photos courtesy of Panthea Lee and City Weekend