Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Written By: Kano Umezaki This article may contain spoilers Mothers ago, stories were spoken about the Chinese goddess, Chang’e (嫦娥), who swallowed an immortality pill and rose to the moon, leaving her mortal lover behind. Fei Fei, the young Chinese pr ...
Written By: Nathan Liu This article contains spoilers for both versions of “Unforgiven.” When a prostitute is disfigured by one of her clients, and the local sheriff does nothing to punish the perpetrator, the scarred woman’s co-worke ...
Written By: Sonny Arifien of Privilege of Legends “If this were a TV mystery, then an important clue would pop up at this time …” Has anyone seen Chan? He went missing back in 1982 and hasn’t been seen since. It seems like a lifetime ago now, and ...
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 th ...
Written By: Aditya Sharma Disney’s “Raya and The Last Dragon” is a vivid and thrilling romp through a world that’s both ancient and thoroughly fresh. In Kumandra, a land of rivers, islands and peninsulas that resembles just enough of each corner of Sout ...
Written By: Nathan Liu The 442nd Regimental Combat Team; if you paid attention during history class at all, then you should be familiar with them. An all-Japanese American fighting unit that served in Europe during the Second World War, the 442 rem ...
Written By: Aditya Sharma Disclaimer: spoilers ahead! In the first two minutes of Netflix’s “The White Tiger” we hear the opening to Punjabi MC and Jay-Z’s “Beware of The Boys” and see a man dressed as a Maharajah swerve out of the way of an oncom ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim A touching and heartfelt story about what it means to be a Korean American immigrant, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” takes an incredibly personal account of Arkansas in the 1980s and turns it into something that can be understood by al ...
Written By: Nathan Liu There’s a saying in storytelling, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” In my opinion, a more appropriate phrase would be “Some truths don’t work as fiction.” There are certain stories that, when presented in a fictional context — ...