In GO GRANDFATHERS, a group of senior citizens embark on what may be the most daring adventure of their lives: a thirteen-day tour—entirely on motorcycle—around the island of Taiwan.
Revisiting Early AAIFF Films and Their Modern Counterparts In curating this year’s archival program, programmer Hai-Li Kong sought to explore the limitless possibilities of film as a medium, selecting works that push the boundaries of how film can be manipulated and reimagined. “The goal was to recapture the pioneering energy that marked the early days […]
Written By: Kano Umezaki In my last article, I wrote about the political necessity of the PBS “Asian American” docuseries in reclaiming our political-cultural beginnings. But in this article, I want to focus on the series’ limitations as invoked through our (un)shared histories as upholders of U.S. settler-colonialism. Because history shows: our equivocal calls […]
Written By: Kano Umezaki This is the first article to a two-part series reviewing the “Asian Americans” For Asians who are often made invisible in the American colonial imagination, documentary filmmaking becomes a crucial praxis for revisionist storytelling. In the recent PBS documentary series, “Asian Americans,” Asian American filmmakers rely on both oral history […]
NEW YORK, NY – The 40th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF40), presented by Asian CineVision in association with Asia Society, announces the schedule of screenings to be held from July 26 to August 5 at Asia Society and Village East Cinema in Manhattan. As the nation’s first and longest running Asian interest film festival, […]
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