Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Written By: Jeremy Lim Disclaimer: This article may contain spoilers. Amano Chihiro, takes a simple, rather played-out scenario and stretches it to its limits. While exploring family drama, life in the modern age and slapstick comedy, Amano manages to ...
Written By: Nathan Liu For people like my father — that is, Asian Americans growing up in the 1960s — Bruce Lee was the closest thing to an Asian superhero. He was a martial arts master, a picture of physical fitness, and a man who always fought fo ...
Written By Kano Umezaki In the triptych documentary, “Far East Deep South,” director Larissa Lam and co-producer Baldwin Chiu explore the traumatic, intergenerational consequences of coerced Chinese labor migration in the American South. The documentar ...
Written By: Huizhu Pan This article contains spoilers. Blending into the community can be a life-long concern for many migrants in the United States. Their insecurity usually comes from various aspects, including cultural discrepancy and ide ...
Written By: Saiya Floyd Earlier this summer, we spoke to three New York based artists on how they were handling the current pandemic. We spoke to Wynton Wong (interview on 5/13/20), Vera Chow (interview on 5/14/20), and Chithra Jeyaram (interview on 6/1 ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim “Easier to be scared than happy.” Charlotte Wang says this slumped in her auditorium seat with a beaming smile on her face, waiting to be called on stage. This beautiful mix of emotions, a moment filled with anxiety yet bereft of ...