Los Angeles, CA - Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu is taking a step into comedy with her first narrative feature and she is bringing Queer as Folk stars Peter Paige and Scott Lowell with her. The duo will be paired up once again as ping-pong partners in a new sports comedy.

Yu, who won the Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subjects in 1997 for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien his since gone on to direct for top shows like Grey’s Anatomy, the West Wing and ER. This new film called Ping Pong Playa takes a step away from her more serious side and tells the story of a young Asian American hipster who has dreams of making it big on the basketball court.

When misfortune strikes his family C-Dub, as he is called, played by newcomer Jimmy Tsai, must defend his family’s athletic honor and takes over teaching his mother’s table tennis class.

Paige and Lowell who played friends/lovers/friends on the hit Showtime show Queer as Folk are portraying table tennis enthusiasts in the film.

Joining them for this zany story about over coming odds are, openly gay actor/producer Jason Stuart who created the film 10 Attitudes, and the very funny Khary Payton.

The film should be a hysterical look into the competitive world of ping-pong and is due out later this year.