Youngest award-winning film critic Perry Chen to perform at San Diego's Got Talent AAJA fund-raiser

March 16, 2010 - PRLog -- Perry Chen, the youngest award-winning film critic, TV/radio personality from San Diego joined the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA) as a 9-year-old 4th grader and the youngest student member ever.  He has been invited to perform at the fund-raiser show "San Diego's Got Talent" on March 25, at The Onyx Room, 852 5th Ave., San Diego 92101.  Perry will perform a magic act and also make a tin foiled dragon from scratch to celebrate the upcoming release of DreamWorks animation's "How to Train Your Dragon."  The event is open to public, advanced tickets are $10 each, with 100% proceeds to benefit journalism students and AAJA programs.  Details:

http://www.aajasandiego.org/?p=1793

"This will be the first time that I am performing a magic act and demonstrating how to make tin-foiled animal sculpture in public," said Perry.  "No one has been able to figure out how my magic act works outside of my immediate family, my tin foiled dragon sculpture will be auctioned off at the end of the talent show.  It is going to be a Perrific event and I hope a lot of my fans and friends will come watch this show and support a great cause!"

Perry Chen started writing movie reviews of G and PG-rated films in November 2008 when he was an 8-year-old third grader at the San Diego Del Mar Union School district’s Torrey Hills School.  He is the host of “Perry Previews the Movies” on wsRadio, the worldwide leader in internet talk radio.  Perry reviews movies on KUSI and Fox 5 San Diego regularly, and was a guest on other radio talk shows.  

Perry won an “Excellent Writer Award” given by “We Chinese in America” newspaper and magazine on January 17, 2010 for his movie review column.  Perry’s unique starfish rating system is child-friendly and popular with families. The highest rating is five starfish.  Perry's movie reviews are well-known for the insight from a child's perspective, lively description, sense of humor, and summary of moral at the end.  

Perry became a national sensation after appearing on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in 2009.  He has been extensively featured on regional, national, and international media, including Fox, NBC 7/39, ABC 10 News, KUSI, KFMB CBS 8, Roots Up Radio, The Big Biz Show, Art Rocks! Radio, San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego News Network, San Diego Magazine, San Diego Family, World Journal, The China Press, and more.

Perry is also an award-winning artist.  He won an award for his painting at the 14th annual San Diego International Music & Art Festival on January 24, 2010, and another award for "Outstanding Creativity" for his art show at the San Diego City Hall in October 2009.  He experimented with his lunch foil at school when he was a first grader and gradually perfected his sculpting skills to make a variety of animals.

Perry invites his friends and fans to sign up to his newsletter and visit his websites often for FREE movie passes, events updates and reviews:

http://www.perryspreviews.com  
http://www.wsRadio.com/perry  
http://www.youtube.com/perryspreviews  

About the event: AAJA-SD will be hosting a talent show, featuring 15 acts from folks within the media industry.  The event is hosted by Robert Santos of ABC-10 News, and judged by Jenny Hamel, reporter from San Diego Channel 6 The CW, Neil Senturia, CEO of San Diego News Network, and Ken Kramer, reporter from KPBS.

Find out who should leave his day job to show off his talent, who should stick to his reporting gig and never perform again, and who should just be thankful she’s hot.

The event will take place at the beautiful and fun Onyx Room, a night club with hip music and old school cocktails.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The show will be followed by a hot DJ and networking mixer.

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Perry's Previews features reviews by Perry Chen, an award-winning 9-year-old critic of G/PG-rated family movies and the youngest radio talk show host. Details: www.perryspreviews.com
www.wsRadio.com/perry
www.youtube.com/perryspreviews