Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
Written By: Michelle Ahn In the northeast, America runs on Dunkin, but on the west coast, Americans relied on one of its immigrants to get their donut fix. “The Donut King” follows the life of Ted Ngoy, from his immigration story as a Cambodian ref ...
Written By: Michelle Ahn Like her protagonist in her feature film debut, Sujata Day of “Insecure” fame won the Spelling Bee in fourth grade. “ sounds really exciting and like a big accomplishment but there were only ten people in my grade.” Althoug ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki When MIT Media Lab researcher, Joy Buolamwini, finds that face-recognition softwares fail to identify darker-skinned people, she discovers that anti-Blackness is pervasive within the fabric of the digital world. Sha ...
Written By: Saiya Floyd On its surface, “Stealing School” is about the academic trial of an undergrad student accused of cheating on her final paper. But the film — writer/director Li Dong’s feature debut — is made stronger by the various subplots ...
Written By: Nathan Liu So often in fiction, the narrative of the Vietnam War is centered on the experiences of American soldiers, whether it be their loss of innocence in “Platoon” (1986), or their inability to return to civilian life in “First Blo ...
Written By: Jeremy Lim Disclaimer: This article may contain spoilers. Amano Chihiro, takes a simple, rather played-out scenario and stretches it to its limits. While exploring family drama, life in the modern age and slapstick comedy, Amano manages to ...
Written By: Nathan Liu For people like my father — that is, Asian Americans growing up in the 1960s — Bruce Lee was the closest thing to an Asian superhero. He was a martial arts master, a picture of physical fitness, and a man who always fought fo ...
Written By Kano Umezaki In the triptych documentary, “Far East Deep South,” director Larissa Lam and co-producer Baldwin Chiu explore the traumatic, intergenerational consequences of coerced Chinese labor migration in the American South. The documentar ...
Written By: Huizhu Pan This article contains spoilers. Blending into the community can be a life-long concern for many migrants in the United States. Their insecurity usually comes from various aspects, including cultural discrepancy and ide ...