Written By Jeremy Lim This article may contain spoilers. In this heartbreaking and extremely intimate look at his family, Deng Wei, in his directorial debut, crafts a story that brings us right into the Deng household in China. ...
Ashish Pant’s ‘The Knot’ explores what happens when India’s social bubbles are broken
Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Ashish Pant was driving with his father and sister through the city of Lucknow in northern India when they got into an accident with a scooter driver who had run a red light. He was on ...
Anne Hu’s love letter to her mother is a quintessential Asian American story
Written By: Aditya Sharma If you are the child of immigrants who grew up in the United States, odds are you have experienced a lunchbox moment. Odds are that the food you brought looks, smells and tastes different (read: better). But the feeling of ...
‘Kim’s Convenience:’ A would-be classic with clipped wings
Written By: Nathan Liu This article contains spoilers. As the credits rolled on the final episode of “Kim’s Convenience,” the Canadian sitcom about a Korean family running a store in Toronto, I had one thought in my mind, “what a waste.” Bet ...
‘The mentality and environment we create is something that’s always founded in love’: An interview with filmmaker Jalena Keane-Lee
Written By: Kano Umezaki As we celebrate Asian/Pacific/American Heritage Month, I found it important to think about ways in which filmmaking can support the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) community materially through co ...
Yeena Sung: The actor’s agency
From theatre kid to TV star to theatre again Written By: Demi Guo The actor’s agency “When I first came to the States, the thing that kept me sane was taking acting classes from an after-school program,” Yeena Sung said. Moving is difficult for all chil ...
‘Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir’: Reflections on an Asian American literary legacy
Written By: Kyubin Kim For many accomplished and aspiring Asian American writers, myself included in the latter, Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck Club” was our gateway drug into the Asian American literary canon. Published in 1989, “The Joy Lu ...
Why do we remember Anna May Wong?
Written By: Nathan Liu On January 22, 2020, Google unveiled its daily doodle: the face of Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong. In May of that same year, Netflix released the Ryan Murphy miniseries, “Hollywood,” an alternate history in which ...
Remembering Corky Lee
Written By: Jeremy Lim It’s been a little more than three months since the world lost Corky Lee, a moment of intense sadness for a whole community. However, in celebration of Corky Lee Day, let’s look back at the life and legacy of a legendary Asian Ame ...