The future of film is female! These short films by Asian Pacific American women span genres, themes and time.
Taku makes masks from the hinoki (cypress) planks that Mama sells in her wood shop. Although it comes at an expense to their livelihood, Mama shows patience and tolerance for Taku’s process of learning to accept himself as he is.
Alice has a sexual awakening before ballet class. With heightened senses, she experiences the world anew in the midst of her transformation into a woman.
Having lost her husband two years prior, Leena is stuck in an unending ritual of drinking to excess and longing for lost love. Her teenage daughter, Simone, is her last connection to reality. But Simone has lost Leena to alcoholism long ago.
Growing up in the 1970’s Vancouver, Sammy dreams of playing ice hockey. Despite economic barriers, Sammy’s resourcefulness and focus keeps her love of the game alive.
Jun Takahashi is an 84 year old Japanese man and maverick with an irreverent perspective on life. His puckish approach to old age is the only credential he needs to be the Artistic Director of his fake funeral.
Esther Cheung lovingly recreates the essence of urban life in the ’70s in Mong Kok, Kowloon as told to her by her parents. Experience the life of a child in old Hong Kong during the languid days of summer.
This cyberpunk academic dive explores how Valerie Soe has used detournement (hijacking and reappropriation of propaganda) as a technique to undermine oppressive imagery of Asian American women in film.