Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Written By: Kano Umezaki This article may contain spoilers. For decades, U.S. expansionists have branded Kaua’i as a land for leisure, primed with rich forests and vast shorelines. With its geopolitical alignment to the Asia-Pacific, Kaua’i also p ...
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 ...
Written By Jeremy Lim This article may contain spoilers. In this heartbreaking and extremely intimate look at his family, Deng Wei, in his directorial debut, crafts a story that brings us right into the Deng household in China. ...
Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Ashish Pant was driving with his father and sister through the city of Lucknow in northern India when they got into an accident with a scooter driver who had run a red light. He was on ...
Written By: Aditya Sharma If you are the child of immigrants who grew up in the United States, odds are you have experienced a lunchbox moment. Odds are that the food you brought looks, smells and tastes different (read: better). But the feeling of ...
Written By: Nathan Liu This article contains spoilers. As the credits rolled on the final episode of “Kim’s Convenience,” the Canadian sitcom about a Korean family running a store in Toronto, I had one thought in my mind, “what a waste.” Bet ...
Asian Cinevision (ACV), in collaboration with A24, brought virtual screenings of the award-winning film, MINARI, to a number of school communities in the NY/NJ area as part of AAPI Heritage Month. Participating schools included Dwight Englewood School, Et ...
Dear Friends of Asian CineVision, Last year's pandemic was difficult for so many of us, and ACV did not escape its impact. We lost our office space to plan and gather together, along with a cut of funding into 2021. We even came close to cancelling our a ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki As we celebrate Asian/Pacific/American Heritage Month, I found it important to think about ways in which filmmaking can support the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) community materially through co ...