An Interview with the Creator of "Attack, Decay, Release" H.P. Mendoza’s musical triumph, “Attack, Decay, Release,” is not just a movie. It is a family get-together with the strangers you experience it with. Created by a Filipino director based in San Fra ...
AAPI are Always on the Move. Where Do We Stop?
Without diaspora, there is no Asian American Pacific Islander identity. Someone, somewhere, moved halfway across the world. In a world where we are always searching for either belonging or connection, where do we find a place for ourselves? https://www.y ...
Capturing the World’s ‘Forward Momentum’
In one part of the world, the country breaks into revolution. At the same time in another, a young woman gets elected as the first Asian American to hold her political title. Wherever something is happening, and whatever that something is, someone’s life ...
Care, COVID, and colonialism: A uniquely Filipino American story in ‘Nurse Unseen’
Michele Josue highlights the virtually untold story of Filipino nurses Stories of Filipino nurses are made visible in the documentary “Nurse Unseen” by Emmy award-winning documentarian Michele Josue. The 90-minute feature tells the stories of Filipino nur ...
Migrant Massage Workers Make Their Own Narrative
‘Fly in Power’ is a call to action Content Warning: This article contains a brief mention of a suicide or murder. When Song Yang died in a police raid in 2017, she became a symbol of sex trafficking victims in the massage parlors of New York City. The do ...
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ and the importance of reinterpreting stories
This article contains spoilers. Every so often, Hollywood releases an all-female, or all-POC version of a classic story, like the 2016 version of “Ghostbusters” or the 2014 version of “About Last Night.” And when that happens, you can bet that there wi ...
Iris Yamashita: extraordinarily under-appreciated screenwriter
The Woman Who Penned 'Letters from Iwo Jima' Has Never Stopped Writing “If our children can sleep safely for one more day, it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island!” So declares General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, played by Ken Watanabe ...