Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
From theatre kid to TV star to theatre again Written By: Demi Guo The actor’s agency “When I first came to the States, the thing that kept me sane was taking acting classes from an after-school program,” Yeena Sung said. Moving is difficult for all chil ...
Written By: Kyubin Kim For many accomplished and aspiring Asian American writers, myself included in the latter, Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck Club” was our gateway drug into the Asian American literary canon. Published in 1989, “The Joy Lu ...
Written By: Nathan Liu On January 22, 2020, Google unveiled its daily doodle: the face of Chinese American movie star, Anna May Wong. In May of that same year, Netflix released the Ryan Murphy miniseries, “Hollywood,” an alternate history in which ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim It’s been a little more than three months since the world lost Corky Lee, a moment of intense sadness for a whole community. However, in celebration of Corky Lee Day, let’s look back at the life and legacy of a legendary Asian Ame ...
Written By: Kyubin Kim During a global pandemic when we are sequestered in our homes, road movies hit a certain kind of nerve. While watching director Chloé Zhao’s sprawling film “Nomadland” (2020) set across windy sea cliffs and sunsets stretching acro ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki This article may contain spoilers Mothers ago, stories were spoken about the Chinese goddess, Chang’e (嫦娥), who swallowed an immortality pill and rose to the moon, leaving her mortal lover behind. Fei Fei, the young Chinese pr ...
Written By: Nathan Liu This article contains spoilers for both versions of “Unforgiven.” When a prostitute is disfigured by one of her clients, and the local sheriff does nothing to punish the perpetrator, the scarred woman’s co-worke ...
Written By: Sonny Arifien of Privilege of Legends “If this were a TV mystery, then an important clue would pop up at this time …” Has anyone seen Chan? He went missing back in 1982 and hasn’t been seen since. It seems like a lifetime ago now, and ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki In my last article, I wrote about the political necessity of the PBS “Asian American” docuseries in reclaiming our political-cultural beginnings. But in this article, I want to focus on the series’ limitations as invoked th ...