Written By Jeremy Lim This article may contain spoilers. In this heartbreaking and extremely intimate look at his family, Deng Wei, in his directorial debut, crafts a story that brings us right into the Deng household in China. ...
Ashish Pant’s ‘The Knot’ explores what happens when India’s social bubbles are broken
Written By: Aditya Sharma This article may contain spoilers. Ashish Pant was driving with his father and sister through the city of Lucknow in northern India when they got into an accident with a scooter driver who had run a red light. He was on ...
Anne Hu’s love letter to her mother is a quintessential Asian American story
Written By: Aditya Sharma If you are the child of immigrants who grew up in the United States, odds are you have experienced a lunchbox moment. Odds are that the food you brought looks, smells and tastes different (read: better). But the feeling of ...
For the rest of us: A case for Asian American Christmas films
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 ...
Documentary panel: Navigating cultural communities and identities
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 ...
Online activism campaigns and continuing anti-racism discourse
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 looming Nazi in the background
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 ...
Filipino filmmakers roundtable
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 ...
Raising awareness to raise standards: AAIFF’s panel on impact producing
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 ...