Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Note: Parts of the interview were edited for clarity of content. When asked about the form of his debut feature film “The Accidental Getaway Driver,” director Sing J. Lee answered that the thriller-drama is at its truest a song; more specifically, a folk ...
Think! Chinatown Shorts Showing at DCTV theater Listen to mama. Why? Because. No ifs, ands, or buts. A grassroots non-profit organization by the name of Think! Chinatown (T!C) produced a set of films for the purpose of passing down oral histories from Ne ...
This year’s showcase gives 21-and-under filmmakers of Asian descent a chance to reach a wider audience. In the midst of exams and extracurriculars, it is a feat for any student to crank out a short film, let alone ones with high production value. The seve ...
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 ...
In this big, wide world, Asian diasporas experience change and introspection in all sorts of environments. Will it be in the water? In the heat of the sun? Or the shadow of a volcano? Wherever it is, and wherever they go, there is a story worth telling. ...
A remarkable debut by a new young filmmaker “I have no idea what I’m doing with my career,” Linh Tran candidly stated via phone interview. That uncertainty is confidently felt throughout her debut feature, “Waiting for the Light to Change.” Tran’s film, w ...
The zeitgeist of Asians in the United States is defined by questions: How do we bear the sacrifices of our families who decided to stake our futures on this land? With whom do we connect as a nationality defined by the world’s ethnicities? And as we look ...
A Posthumous Tribute to the Man Behind the Lens Young Kwok “Corky” Lee was a familiar face around Chinatown. No matter what the event, he was there. He documented every Asian and minority-American activist movement that few outlets – if any – covered, and ...
Julie Ha and Eugene Yi Transnationalize the Roots of Anti-Asian Hate in ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ Asian/American films incepted out of the impulse to speak back, and perhaps more critically, they carved a political space to speak from. First-time directors ...