UNTIL HE’S BORN: Interview with Director Qingxuan Wang and Producer Chris Zilong Wang
Written and directed by Qingxuan Wang, Until He’s Born is a poignant tribute to her family and those affected by China’s one-child policy. Set in 1980s China, the short film […]
Have You Seen Yourself?
In Wayne Wang’s 1982 independent classic Chan is Missing, two characters are searching for the titular Chan, who acts throughout the film as a sort of cypher, representing various ideas […]
Surviving Modernity in Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Universe
The unborn and the deceased, are they the same? In Last Life in the Universe, we take a glimpse of the globalization in Asia – even loneliness started becoming borderless in […]
Static Noises and Silent Voices: “Chronicle of a Disappearance” 28 Years Later
Photo Credit: Chronicle of a Disappearance Recent solidarity protests on university campuses and increased calls for recognition of a Palestinian state may be shining an unprecedented spotlight on the ongoing […]
Son of Paper’s newest music video is released “right on time”
The lights are dimmed. The wine is expensive. The music is sultry. The feeling of being in a healthy love affair washes over you when you listen to Son of […]
Public Statement on former SAG-AFTRA Local Board Member John Mitchell
On January 25, 2021, a board member for SAG-AFTRA Philadelphia Local John Mitchell posted a highly offensive meme depicting President Biden with an exaggerated bucktoothed grin, cartoonish slit eyes, and […]
Short Reflections: Queer Futures
How do you use imagination to survive in this time of uncertainty? In our queer shorts program Queer Futures, documentarians and narrative characters explore brighter futures through humor, education, resistance, letting […]
A South Asian Family Drama in the Suburbs of Pittsburgh: An Inside Look at Sujata Day’s Directorial Debut
South Asian Americans make up a large percentage of spelling bee winners, and Monica Chowdhury became one of them after she won the 2005 Scribbs National Spelling Bee. Fast forward […]
Paradise or Cruel Illusion?— Asian American Community’s Search for the American Dream in San Diego
What is paradise? How do we find it? A mortuary worker, a restaurant with karaoke singers, an immigrant father, a class of high school students—these four stories take place in […]
Short Reflections: LMAO
With premises as outrageous as a secret underground Chinese chess enclave and a truly magical strain of weed, this collection of comic short films are somewhat like life as viewed […]
