{"id":3762,"date":"2026-06-23T22:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:03:52","slug":"check-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3762","title":{"rendered":"CHECK PLEASE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2026 Official Selection: Comedy &#8211; Short<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filminvasionla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CHECK_PLEA_CHECKPLEASE_still_1.jpg\" alt=\"CHECK PLEASE\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Two headstrong Koreans can&#8217;t agree on who&#8217;s treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director(s):<\/strong> Shane Chung<\/li>\n<li><strong>Writer(s):<\/strong> Shane Chung<\/li>\n<li><strong>Producer(s):<\/strong> Anna Castagnaro, Nick Leahy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Cast:<\/strong> Richard Yan, Sukwon Jeong<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editor(s):<\/strong> Madie Giaconia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinematographer(s):<\/strong> Tristan Baumeister<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production Designer(s):<\/strong> Abby Mac Kenzie, Lulu Abathra<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound Designer(s):<\/strong> Taniya Tleubayeva<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composer(s):<\/strong> de Wolfe Music USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime:<\/strong> 10m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> Two headstrong Koreans can&#8217;t agree on who&#8217;s treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1086477930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to watch the trailer \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/checkplease_film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit this Official Selection&#8217;s Instagram \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shanechung.xyz\/check-please-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit the official website \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: FILA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 Official Selection: Comedy &#8211; Short Two headstrong Koreans can&#8217;t agree on who&#8217;s treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts deathmatch. Director(s): Shane Chung Writer(s): Shane Chung Producer(s): Anna Castagnaro, Nick Leahy Key Cast: Richard Yan, Sukwon Jeong Editor(s): Madie Giaconia Cinematographer(s): Tristan Baumeister Production Designer(s): Abby &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/?p=3762\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHECK PLEASE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-invasion-l-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhoward.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}