SEP CREATOR | ANDREW LEUNG
ANCIENT CHINA OF MARS
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About The Project
Ancient China of Mars is a dramedy series told in a mockumentary style about an Earthling Chinese family, the Lees, who are forced to escape to planet Mars. They leave behind a climate change-stricken planet and a society that will never let them flourish or go beyond the socioeconomic caste system that Earth has become, where they face an early and unnatural death.
Except when they’re so close to their dreams, they find themselves stuck on the orbiting Ellis Island space station above Mars. It is a way station purgatory and immigrant holding space station that has developed a whole society of its own, filled with failed dreams of people who are stateless, neither Earthling nor Martian.
CAST AND CREW
This is the space to introduce the business’s team and what makes it special.
Kamal Batra
Zeyb / Zari
AEsha soni
Neelu
AEsha soni
Neelu
AEsha soni
Neelu
AEsha soni
Neelu
Producers
Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE)
Executive Producer
Janet Yang
Productions
Executive Producer
Julia S. Gouw
Executive Producer
Snarky Elephant
Productions
Associate Producer
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Production Design By:
Mausam Aggarwal
Costume Design by:
India Casting by:
PRESS
The project takes us on a journey that is not conventionally seen within the South-Asian community and we love it.
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