Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
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 ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki Back in late June of 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with documentary filmmaker and activist, Renee Tajima-Peña, about the PBS “Asian Americans” series, the origins of the Asian/American political film movement, and the s ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim If you’ve seen a CW show from the past five or so years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard something composed by Sherri Chung. Chung has worked on a whole host of DC television adaptations, “Riverdale” and most recently, “Kung ...
Written By: Nathan Liu “Between 1907 and 1924, more than 20,000 young Japanese, Okinawan and Korean women journeyed to Hawaii to become the wives of men they knew only through photographs and letters. They were called ‘picture brides.’ This film is ba ...
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Throughout the past few months, we've been slowly trickling out of isolation and into “hot vax summer,” and that also meant having awkward conversations with friends we ...
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. Since her childhood growing up in Taiwan under martial law, director Mian-Mian Lu has been pushing conventional boundaries. In high school, Lu started a drama club and d ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim This article may contain spoilers. Romantic comedies seem to get a bad rap from a lot of people.These detractors point to the formulaic structure that rom-coms like to continuously dole out to the public. ...
And it’s an evergreen story inspired by the past, set in the modern day Written By: Demi Guo This article may contain spoilers. In 2017, Evan Jackson Leong was known for the 2013 hit, “Linsanity,” which had taken up most of his time since. But no ...
Written By: Kyubin Kim This article may contain spoilers. There’s something magical happening with teen coming-of-age stories lately and I spoke with lead actor Emma Galbraith to discuss our love of the YA genre, collaborative ...