Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
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, ...
The POC mediamaker’s how-to guide on anti-racism Written By: Demi Guo Between podcasting, the news and entertainment, all media representation is tied to real-life consequence. In order for representation to further combat racism, said the AAIFF pa ...
Written By: Demi Guo “A Thousand Cuts” is a necessary watch for those who want to understand what “fake news” means — and how it goes beyond the United States’ borders. It follows Maria Ressa, a Filipino American journalist, in her fight against di ...
Written By: Saiya Floyd It was hard for the panelists of the Filipino Filmmakers Roundtable at AAIFF43 to imagine such a gathering as little as five years ago. A common theme for the night was how far, and how quickly the Filipino filmmaking commun ...
Written By: Nathan Liu NEW YORK, NY — After a brief delay stemming from technical issues, AAIFF’s panel on impact producing opened up with the moderator, Pulkit Datta, asking the speakers to explain what they think the titular concept is. And while ...
Written By: Saiya Floyd The first glimpse we get of Tera — the protagonist of “Take Out Girl” — is of the back of her head. More specifically, the baseball cap that says “Never Compromise.” And neither Tera or the movie does. When we meet T ...