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Painted Nails - A Vietnamese Salon Worker Fights for Safe Cosmetics
Painted Nails - A Vietnamese Salon Worker Fights for Safe Cosmetics
DigAll Media
It won't take long to fall in love with the subject of Painted Nails, Van Hoang, a Vietnamese nail salon owner who serves an ethnically diverse group of working class women with acrylic nails and intricate airbrush designs. Through the…
The Split Horn - The Life of A Hmong Shaman in America
The Split Horn - The Life of A Hmong Shaman in America
Collective Eye Films
America has become the testing ground for the enduring strength of Hmong culture. The Split Horn documents the journey of Hmong shaman Paja Thao and his family from the mountains of Laos to the heartland of America: Appleton, Wisconsin. This…
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco
Forever, Chinatown - An Artist Recreates His Childhood Chinatown in a Rapidly Changing San Francisco
New Day Films
A documentary about unknown, self-taught 81-year-old artist Frank Wong who has spent the past four decades recreating his fading memories by building romantic, extraordinarily detailed miniature models of the San Francisco Chinatown rooms of his youth. This film takes the…
Vincent Who? - The Murder of a Chinese-American Man
Vincent Who? - The Murder of a Chinese-American Man
Curtis Chin
In 1982, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments arising from massive layoffs in the auto industry, a Chinese-American named Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers. Chin's killers, however, got off with a $3,000 fine and 3…
Seeking Asian Female
Seeking Asian Female
New Day Films
Steven is a 60-year-old white American man who works as a cashier in a garage and dreams of marrying a young Asian woman. Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents his obsessive search for potential brides over the Internet because she…
Slaying the Dragon - Media Stereotypes of Asian & Asian American Women
Slaying the Dragon - Media Stereotypes of Asian & Asian American Women
Women Make Movies
SLAYING THE DRAGON is a comprehensive look at media stereotypes of Asian and Asian American women since the silent era. From the racist use of white actors to portray Asians in early Hollywood films, through the success of Anna May…
2 videos
Kumu Hina
Kumu Hina
Qwaves
Imagine a world where a little boy can grow up to be the woman of his dreams, and a young girl can rise to become a leader among men. Welcome to Kumu Hina's Hawai'i. During a momentous year in her…
2 videos
Bad Rap - The Lives and Careers of Four Asian-American Rappers
Bad Rap - The Lives and Careers of Four Asian-American Rappers
FilmRise
This award-winning documentary follows the lives and careers of four Asian-American rappers trying to break into hip-hop culture, which often treats them as outsiders. Sharing dynamic live performance footage and revealing interviews, these artists are driven to make the most…
The Slanted Screen - Hollywood’s Representation of Asian Men in Film & Television
The Slanted Screen - Hollywood’s Representation of Asian Men in Film & Television
Center for Asian American Media
From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold & Kumar Go to Whitecastle, THE SLANTED SCREEN explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting…
Tested - The Flaws in the American Public School System
Tested - The Flaws in the American Public School System
Curtis Chin
The gap in opportunities for different races in America remains extreme. Nowhere is this more evident than our nation's top public schools. In New York City, where Blacks and Hispanics make up 70% of the city's school-aged population, they represent…
A Village Called Versailles
A Village Called Versailles
New Day Films
In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill. A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES is the empowering story…
The Grace Lee Project - Deconstructing an Asian-American Stereotype
The Grace Lee Project - Deconstructing an Asian-American Stereotype
Women Make Movies
When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. As an adult, however, she moved to New York and then California, where everyone she met seemed to know "another Grace…
Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's
Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's
New Day Films
KUKAN, a landmark color film that revealed the atrocities of World War II China to audiences around the world, was the first ever American feature documentary to receive an Academy Award in 1942 and was considered lost for decades. When…
First Person Plural
First Person Plural
New Day Films
In this Emmy Award-nominated documentary, filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem explores themes of race, identity, assimilation, and birth family reunion. In 1966, Deann was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in…
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i
New Day Films
What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: the Voice of Hawai'i" addresses these questions through its lively examination of Pidgin - the language spoken by over…
Rabbit in the Moon
Rabbit in the Moon
Emiko Omori
Like many innocent Japanese Americans released from WWII forced incarceration camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and…
Sentenced Home - The Deportation of Cambodian Americans
Sentenced Home - The Deportation of Cambodian Americans
Center for Asian American Media
Like many young Cambodian Americans who arrived in the U.S. as refugees in the '80s, Loeun Lun, Many Uch and Kim Ho Ma hoped for the best. Little did they know that their destinies, guided by youthful mistakes and the…
America By The Numbers: The New Deciders - The Demographics of the 2016 Presidential Election Voters
America By The Numbers: The New Deciders - The Demographics of the 2016 Presidential Election Voters
PBS
In this one-hour election special, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa takes us on location to: Cleveland, Ohio where Arab Americans who are Muslim and Christian register to vote and run for office to combat Islamophobia; Orlando, Florida as Latino Evangelicals find…
Soul Of A Banquet - The Matriarch of Modern Chinese Cooking
Soul Of A Banquet - The Matriarch of Modern Chinese Cooking
Oscilloscope Pictures
In this mouth-watering documentary, director Wayne Wang ( The Joy Luck Club ) profiles Cecilia Chiang, the matriarch of modern Chinese cooking, as she relates her fascinating history and cooks up a sumptuous, once-in-a-lifetime banquet. "A mind-bendingly hunger-inducing piece of…
Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story - The Youngest San Quentin State Prisoner On His Road to Freedom
Breathin': The Eddy Zheng Story - The Youngest San Quentin State Prisoner On His Road to Freedom
Ben Wang
Arrested at 16 and tried as an adult for kidnapping and robbery, Eddy Zheng served over 20 years in California prisons and jails. Ben Wang's BREATHIN': THE EDDY ZHENG STORY paints an intimate portrait of Eddy -- the prisoner, the…