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Asian American Panorama

The best of Asian American cinema in all of its colors—from stories of musical ambition and kung-fu revisited to tales of hustle and humor.

Asian American Panorama

SDAFF Drive-In! presents BE WATER

Film SDAFF Drive-In! presents BE WATER Directed by Bao Nguyen With interviews, outtakes, and glorious archival footage, a dynamic and crucial look at Bruce Lee as an icon,…

Asian American Panorama

THE CELINE ARCHIVE

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Film THE CELINE ARCHIVE Directed by Celine Parreñas Shimizu The ghost of one Celine haunts another as filmmaker Celine Parreñas Shimizu uncovers a 1932 Filipino-American community pushing,…

Asian American Panorama

CURTAIN UP!

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Film CURTAIN UP! Directed by Hui Tong, Kelly Ng Students at a NYC Chinatown elementary school work, play, and sing through a theatrical production of Frozen, while…

Asian American Panorama

DEATH OF NINTENDO

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Film DEATH OF NINTENDO Directed by Raya Martin This delightful and nostalgic coming-of-age film chronicles the crusades of a group of friends as they navigate growing…

Asian American Panorama

DEFINITION PLEASE

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Film DEFINITION PLEASE Directed by Sujata Day Other former Spelling Bee champs go on to glory. Monica Choudry hasn't left her mom's house. With her…

Asian American Panorama

THE DONUT KING

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Film THE DONUT KING Directed by Alice Gu Meet Ted Ngoy, the tenacious refugee behind the pink box who is single-handedly responsible for the fact that…

Asian American Panorama

EXPORT MY LOVE

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Film EXPORT MY LOVE Directed by Jinglin Li This cross-continental documentary follows Chinese-American Jany Murphy, part matchmaker, part modern day Cyrano de Bergerac, as she tries…

Asian American Panorama

FINDING YINGYING

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Film FINDING YINGYING Directed by Jiayan "Jenny" Shi In June 2017, Yingying Zhang, a Chinese visiting scholar, mysteriously vanished from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.…

Asian American Panorama

GYOPO

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Film GYOPO Directed by Samuel Kiehoon Lee With a French New Wave aesthetic and a killer Korean psychedelic rock soundtrack, a motley mix of Korean…

Asian American Panorama

MU AND THE VANISHING WORLD

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Film MU AND THE VANISHING WORLD Directed by Jessica W. Leung, Paco Beltrán Mu, a Kayan woman from Myanmar, leaves her life as a tourist attraction in Thailand and resettles in…

Asian American Panorama

THE PAPER TIGERS

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Film THE PAPER TIGERS Directed by Bao Tran In this action-comedy, coming-of-(middle)-age kung fu flick, three martial arts students reunite after decades apart to find what–or…