Packing his bags for Beijing
August 1, 2008 | 11:47 AMKevin Roderick
Aleem Hossain received his MFA in film directing from UCLA in 2004. His current projects include It Ends Today, an upcoming sci-fi drama web-series, "The Suffering", a low-budget horror film, and "Grande Larceny," a comedy feature film he co-wrote featuring Cedric the Entertainer.
He's blogging his trip to China for the Olympics and in his first post writes, "I love China, it’s one of my favorite places on earth to visit (amazing food, really friendly people, cool modern architecture, awe-inspiring historical sites)."I’ve never been to the Olympics - there’s gotta be parts of it that are better live. And it’s actually pretty easy and normal for me to visit China. My in-laws live there, so I visit once a year. I have a place to stay and relatives who speak Chinese… all in all, it kinda seems like I’d be crazy not to go."
We'll be checking in at Aleem in China from time to time.
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