Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Written By: Aditya Sharma Disclaimer: spoilers ahead! In the first two minutes of Netflix’s “The White Tiger” we hear the opening to Punjabi MC and Jay-Z’s “Beware of The Boys” and see a man dressed as a Maharajah swerve out of the way of an oncom ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim A touching and heartfelt story about what it means to be a Korean American immigrant, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” takes an incredibly personal account of Arkansas in the 1980s and turns it into something that can be understood by al ...
Written By: Nathan Liu There’s a saying in storytelling, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” In my opinion, a more appropriate phrase would be “Some truths don’t work as fiction.” There are certain stories that, when presented in a fictional context — ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim This article contains spoilers. In my last article discussing the possibilities for Asian American Christmas films in the future, I ended the piece by spotlighting a Lifetime made-for-TV movie that was slated to come ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki This is the first article to a two-part series reviewing the “Asian Americans” For Asians who are often made invisible in the American colonial imagination, documentary filmmaking becomes a crucial praxis for revisionist s ...
Written By: Nathan Liu Since I started writing for CineVue, I’ve done my best to spotlight early pioneers in the film industry. People like Sessue Hayakawa, Hollywood’s first Asian leading man, and Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian actress to win an ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, it’s hard to ignore the big bully of a holiday that looms over everything from the moment Halloween is over. November, 2020 has housed an intense and often painstaking elect ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki In the popular cinematic imagination, Asians and Pacific Islanders linger as exotic backgrounds, simultaneously commodified and expropriated in the name of “representation.” To challenge against these colonial myths that ce ...
Written By: Michelle Ahn This year, despite an ongoing pandemic, we saw communities come together in support of Black Lives Matter across the nation and the world. George Floyd’s wrongful death, along with Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and many more, ...