Big Nights
Come bathe in hip hop carbonation and high school hustle in our 2021 Opening and Closing films!
The Way We Keep Dancing
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INCLUDES Q&A - Break dancers, rappers, and YouTube personalities are on the brink of stardom when city bureaucrats ask them to help gentrify a Hong Kong neighborhood.
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Try Harder!
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Students at San Francisco's famed Lowell High work, dance, and celebrate their way through a nail-biting senior year of applying to dream colleges.
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And make sure to catch our other Special Presentations:
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SOVEREIGN CINEMA: THE POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY OF NĀ MAKA O KA ‘ĀINA
Three films which highlight videomakers Puhipau and Joan Lander who since 1974, operated as Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina (“the eyes of the land”), a documentary collective that saw in media production a means of anti-colonial knowledge-making. This is public media as political media, independent cinema as a sovereign cinema. Their videography of over 100 documentaries is unparalleled, an archive as explosive as ever and an essential contribution to global indigenous cinema.
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SONGS OUR ELDERS TAUGHT ME
For too many, our Asian elders are inscrutable faces and frail street crawlers. For us, they are keepers of desires and memories. These four films invigorate some of their stories, hidden in plain sight in the annals of Asian American cinema.
