Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Written By: Kano Umezaki In the popular cinematic imagination, Asians and Pacific Islanders linger as exotic backgrounds, simultaneously commodified and expropriated in the name of “representation.” To challenge against these colonial myths that ce ...
Written By: Michelle Ahn This year, despite an ongoing pandemic, we saw communities come together in support of Black Lives Matter across the nation and the world. George Floyd’s wrongful death, along with Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and many more, ...
The POC mediamaker’s how-to guide on anti-racism Written By: Demi Guo Between podcasting, the news and entertainment, all media representation is tied to real-life consequence. In order for representation to further combat racism, said the AAIFF pa ...
Written By: Demi Guo “A Thousand Cuts” is a necessary watch for those who want to understand what “fake news” means — and how it goes beyond the United States’ borders. It follows Maria Ressa, a Filipino American journalist, in her fight against di ...
Written By: Saiya Floyd It was hard for the panelists of the Filipino Filmmakers Roundtable at AAIFF43 to imagine such a gathering as little as five years ago. A common theme for the night was how far, and how quickly the Filipino filmmaking commun ...
Written By: Nathan Liu NEW YORK, NY — After a brief delay stemming from technical issues, AAIFF’s panel on impact producing opened up with the moderator, Pulkit Datta, asking the speakers to explain what they think the titular concept is. And while ...
Written By: Saiya Floyd The first glimpse we get of Tera — the protagonist of “Take Out Girl” — is of the back of her head. More specifically, the baseball cap that says “Never Compromise.” And neither Tera or the movie does. When we meet T ...
Written By: Michelle Ahn According to Amnesty International, an average of 34 people died a day in the Philippines during President Rodrigo Duterte’s first six months in office. This year, the United Nations released a report stating, “The most con ...
Written By: Huizhu Pan Many filmmakers deem short films as the stepping stone to features or potential opportunities in the industry. At the same time, some may wonder how to connect their works with other people amidst the emergence of multiple di ...