Presenters of the Asian American International Film Festival
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: 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: 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: Michelle Ahn According to Amnesty International, an average of 34 people died a day in the Philippines during President Rodrigo Duterte’s first six months in office. This year, the United Nations released a report stating, “The most con ...
Written By: Kano Umezaki Singapore’s centralized education system is known for yielding high test results, but it often fails to give support to its most vulnerable, low-income students. Shuling Yong’s “Unteachable” documents Meixi Ng’s four-year journe ...
Written By: Huizhu Pan A woman’s status in her family has long been a controversial topic in China. Given the hundreds of years of feudal history during which “A man can have multiple wives, but a woman cannot marry twice” (“Lessons for Women,” Zha ...
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: 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 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 ...