Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
In CLIQUE BAIT, director and actress Anna Mikami brings to screen Asian teenage girls as you’ve never seen them before. Set in an international high school in Hong Kong, CLIQUE BAIT’s characters come from the upper echelon in a Westernized, once-colonized ...
Director Shilpi Gulati casts an empathetic and poetic eye on the subject of recovery, family, and women in documentary LOCK & KEY. We got a chance to chat with her about the moment that most affected her while filming, how LOCK & KEY defies conve ...
At a time when the concept of "home" has become increasingly fraught for whole segments of our country as a result of our current immigration climate, filmmakers AB Troen (director), Marc A. Mounier (producer), and Yongle Wang (editor) have ...
In director Alex Chu's second feature FOR IZZY, he assembles a motley crew of characters who find an unlikely kinship with each other when they become next door neighbors. Dede (played by Walking Dead actress Michelle Ang), a recovering addict and ph ...
DEAD PIGS is director Cathy Yan's spiky, darkly humorous feature on modern China where five lives coalesce as thousands of dead pigs float down Shanghai's waterways. Inspired by a news clipping about dead pigs suddenly surfacing in public bodies of w ...
CineVue got to chat with Grace Hannoy (writer, actor, and co-producer) and Zorinah Juan (director) of WHEN WE GROW UP, a feature film about a multiracial family that is brought together by the death of their family dog. Once together, they find themselves ...
CineVue got the chance to talk with director Aneesh Chaganty and co-writer/producer Sev Ohanian about SEARCHING, AAIFF41’s Opening Night presentation. Starring John Cho and Debra Messing, SEARCHING is a hyper-modern thriller that follows a desperate fathe ...
CineVue got the chance to talk with director Aneesh Chaganty and co-writer/producer Sev Ohanian about SEARCHING, AAIFF41’s Opening Night presentation. Starring John Cho and Debra Messing, SEARCHING is a hyper-modern thriller that follows a desperate fathe ...
CineVue got the chance to talk with director Aneesh Chaganty and co-writer/producer Sev Ohanian about SEARCHING, AAIFF41’s Opening Night presentation. Starring John Cho and Debra Messing, SEARCHING is a hyper-modern thriller that follows a desperate fathe ...