‘Crazy Rich Asians’, a cultural movement in American cinema
Back in June 2017 I vividly recall strolling through Barnes & Noble and laying my eyes on Kevin Kwan’s ‘Crazy Rich’ trilogy laid out on the shelf; the third book Rich People Problems had...
Global Peace Film Festival: “Nailed it”
A Feature Length Documentary by Adele Free Pham
The Story
A fortuitous encounter with 20 Vietnamese refugee women and The Birds actress Tippi Hedren in 1975, sparks the Asian nail salon as...
BIFF Winner “Million Loves In Me”, The Premier Indie Asian Film, Finally Gets Its...
Burbank International Film Festival winner of “Best Foreign Language Feature Film” was an unusual but powerful story about a mother-daughter relationship, its trials and tribulations and its outward manifestation in animal hoarding. “Million Loves...
The Secrets of Saké: Tradition, Intuition and an Artist’s Guiding Hand
POV’s ‘The Birth of Saké’ Follows Meticulous Method of Bringing the Fabled Japanese Drink To Life; Film Premieres Monday, Sept. 5, 2016 on PBS
A Co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
“A richly immersive documentary...
Remembering Tohoku While Cultivating Hope for the Future
Orlando Screening
On Thursday, March 31 2016, Wesley Julian, producer and director of the documentary “Tohoku Tomo” presented his film at the YESS Center in the Orlando Fashion Square Mall. The screening was to commemorate...
Maiko: Dancing Child
A film by Ase Svenheim Drivenes
70 minutes, documentary, color, English, 2015
Maiko Nishino's destiny was decided before she was born. Her name, Maiko, means dancing child. Her mother sold their house and car to send 14...
Tokyo Ghoul 映画『東京喰種』Live Action
The series debuted in September 2011 thanks to mangaka Sui Ishida. Weekly Young Jump first published the manga before it was adapted into an anime series by Pierrot. The anime premiered in July 2014 before a second season ran in January 2015.
Tokyo Ghoul is the latest live-action...
Kenneth Eng: Man of Pursuit, Resilience, and Happiness
Kenneth Eng: The Man Behind “Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball” and “My Life in China”
Chinese-born, Boston-bred, and LA-livin’ filmmaker Kenneth Eng will be visiting Orlando once again on May 1, 2016. He will be presenting two...
The Big Umbrella: Reflections on PBS – “Asian Americans”
The Series at a glimpse
The Asian American story is one of deep and diverse perspective and nuance. The recent PBS and Center for Asian American Media series Asian Americans undertakes a bold attempt to...
Parks and recr-eng-tion; Kenneth and Ehren visit Orlando once again
On Sat, May 1 2016 filmmaker Kenneth Eng and writer-producer of “My Life in China” Ehren Parks visited Orlando once more, graciously presenting a free screening of two of Eng's award-winning and internationally-recognized documentaries: “Kokoyakyu:...