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shareSurprising stories of the Asian diaspora outside the US context – from a little-known Cuban Korean hero, interred Japanese Peruvians, and an obsessed Japanese fan of East LA Chicano music.
This screening is free. Please collect your free ticket at the box office.
Co-Presented by: UCSD Asian Pacific Student Alliance (APSA)
In this program
KIMCHI
Directed by Jackson Kiyoshi Segars
Marrying into a Korean American family in disarray over the grandmother’s choice of death, a Japanese American man hides away with his camera and discovers a hidden connection with his future grandfather-in-law.
LETTER TO MY CHILDREN
Directed by Joseph Juhn
An imaginary letter from a Korean man who lived in Mexico as slave labor and in Cuba as a free man. Archival footage and interviews from a rarely-seen Korean diaspora in Latin America, its relationship to war, and redefining motherland.
OUR MAN IN TOKYO (THE BALLAD OF SHIN MIYATA)
Directed by Akira Boch
With music and shout outs to Ritchie Valens and La Bamba, meet Shin Miyata, a Japanese record label owner with an undying love for Chicano music, and the many East LA musicians he brought to Japan for nearly 20 years.
THE CRYSTAL CITY
Directed by Kenya Gillespie
An internment documentary unlike any other, with a spectral voiceover that reveals German Americans and Japanese Peruvians intersecting in repatriation and swimming pools.
SIDE BY SIDE: OUT OF A SOUTH KOREAN ORPHANAGE AND INTO THE WORLD
Directed by Glenn Morey, Julie Morey
Korean adoptees from around the world share crisp stories about childhood, homecomings, and scars from past lives. A rare adoptee documentary completely told in past tense, yet collectively tells the story of a current transracial adulthood.
Dates & Times
Past
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Fri, Nov 9
4:00 pm
