Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Moral Grays In ‘Chaperone’ Interview sections were edited for clarity and concision. When a 17-year-old boy mistook director Zoë Eisenberg for a fellow high schooler and asked her out to a party, she replied incredulously, “I’m 30. I’m also married ...
A Korean-American teen’s coming of age “Why do you smoke?” Korean American teen, Hayoung, asks her father. He’s a man whose charisma seems to radiate effortlessly and, at times, makes him feel aloof. “It’s bad for you,” she adds, seamlessly switching from ...
Big Brother is Watching What must it be like, to live in constant fear of a government you escaped from but can never truly abandon? C35 Film’s Yi Chen explores that question in her latest film to grace the film festival circuit: “Dissidents.” Chen remar ...
When the American Dream is a Calvino dreamed by the whole world, respectively. In Mandarin, “Yi” means “one,” and “Nan” means “man.” “Many people think that my name has something to do with the one-child policy, but my mom said the name was given by a ...
Subverting Asian Stereotypes Through Art When Preston Choi popped into our Zoom meeting, he had a smile that could light up a room and a calmness that was in direct juxtaposition to the heavy topics he often covers in his plays. Forty-five minutes was not ...
A conversation between Celine Song and Jeff Yang On January 23rd, the Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium at the Asia Society was packed with people who had come to hear a conversation between author Jeff Yang and director Celine Song. Just that morning, Song ...
Discovering Myanmar’s struggle against the Myitsone Dam through grassroots activists and the lens of director Emily Hong Nestled between the Mali Hka and N’Mai Hka rivers lies a village once home to Hkawn Mai, Lu Ra, and Ja Hkawn. Emily Hong’s “Above an ...
The following Q&A has been edited for clarity, and is a companion to the review of “The Takedown,” an Audible Original written by Lily Chu and narrated by Phillipa Soo. Can you recount how you got into narrating Lily Chu’s “The Takedown”? Sure. I wa ...
The ‘Hamilton’ star on narrating an Audible Original about a mixed-race Chinese character Phillipa Soo grew up listening to her family talk amongst themselves in different languages. It was an early lesson in oral storytelling. “I recall many, many, many, ...