Written By: Nathan Liu In a 2015 interview with the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, actor Daniel Dae Kim described how he thought it was time for Asian performers to take leading roles. Specifically, he insisted that it was time for Asi ...
A conversation with the creators of ‘Rituals of Resistance’ and ‘The Little Goddess’
On July 28th, "Rituals of Resistance" screened at the Asia Society in New York for the 42nd Asian American International Film Festival. The screening was preceded by the short film "The Little Goddess." After the screening, there was a panel with the dir ...
‘Empty by Design’ highlights isolation but was made through collaboration
Written By: Melissa Slaughter “I wrapped on my birthday, August 26th, ‘cause I said I wanted to finish a film before I turned 30. And JoAnn was like, ‘we've got to get it done …’” Andrea A. Walter, the writer, director, and director of photog ...
‘The Last Sunrise’ heals the China-America rift with an apocalypse
Written by: Demi Guo In America: “Crazy Rich Asians.” “Always Be My Maybe.” Suddenly, “The Farewell”! Drama! In China: CGI. Yet another remake of the “Snake Goddess,” but what’s the story? Enter Wen Ren, with starry skies, mainland actors a ...
Diane Paragas uses country music to tackle uncertainty in ‘Yellow Rose’
Written By: Melissa Slaughter Eva Noblezada as Rose “Square peg, round hole. I run away with nowhere to go.” Eva Noblezada croons this line in varying degrees during the course of her starring turn in the film Yellow Rose. The 23-year-old is al ...
Cinemax’s Warrior: A Kickass Conversation Starter
The announcement of Warrior or any television show that is based on Asian American experience comes with two conflicting feelings. Excitement, stemming from our desire for representation as well as the knowledge of how interesting our stories can be. ...
Interview with Shilpi Gulati of LOCK & KEY
Director Shilpi Gulati casts an empathetic and poetic eye on the subject of recovery, family, and women in documentary LOCK & KEY. We got a chance to chat with her about the moment that most affected her while filming, how LOCK & KEY defies conve ...
Interview with AB Troen, Marc A. Mounier, and Yongle Wang of FINDING HOME
At a time when the concept of "home" has become increasingly fraught for whole segments of our country as a result of our current immigration climate, filmmakers AB Troen (director), Marc A. Mounier (producer), and Yongle Wang (editor) have ...
Interview with Cathy Yan of DEAD PIGS
DEAD PIGS is director Cathy Yan's spiky, darkly humorous feature on modern China where five lives coalesce as thousands of dead pigs float down Shanghai's waterways. Inspired by a news clipping about dead pigs suddenly surfacing in public bodies of w ...