The Sundance Film Festival has long provided a welcome mat for projects from AAPI and other underrepresented creators. Māori drama “Whale Rider” received the 2003 World Cinema Audience Award, the…
Search Results for: "Sundance Film Festival"
Check Out the AAPI Films and Filmmakers of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival might have gone unexpectedly virtual this year, but that didn’t stop Asian and Pacific Islander filmmakers from shining on the screen. Following a sudden switch from…
Shirley Chen Takes On Gunsmoke And Gloomy Weather At The 2020 Sundance Film Festival
…Sundance Film Festival, Chen has plenty to smile about. “I was going into it really nervous, but it ended up being so much fun,” she says. “It was really cool…
The Color Purple: A Chat With Tiffany Chu From The Sundance Film Festival
…Sundance Film Festival, and she’s been doing interviews all weekend, thanks to the premiere of her first-ever leading role in a film, “Ms. Purple,” directed by Justin Chon. But in…
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Is Back in Full Swing
…America as well as the festival’s traditional home in Little Tokyo. The schedule included screenings of Sundance Film Festival hits like “Free Chol Soo Lee” and “Every Day in Kaimuki,”…
Sunrise Collective Returns to Sundance for Their Second Year
This year’s Sundance Film Festival premiered an array of Asian American and Pacific Islander narratives, like coming-of-age films “Dìdi (弟弟)” and “Girls Will Be Girls,” the documentary “Agent of Happiness”…
‘Minding the Gap’ Walks the Line Between Skateboarding and Social Issues
…premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, was acquired by Hulu for theatrical and streaming release on August 17. Bing Liu was born in China, but grew up in…
Korean American Actress Debuts in Buzzworthy Film Featured at Sundance
…writer. This theme continues with Ko’s film debut in Dear White People, which makes its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Photo by An Nguyen There is…
Let’s Head Down South: Here’s the San Diego Asian Film Festival 2022 Lineup
…Soo Lee,” a documentary about the unfair arrest of Chol Soo Lee that first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Films from Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea…
Sean Wang’s ‘Dìdi (弟弟)’ is Acquired by Focus Features After Sundance Wins
Sean Wang’s film “Dìdi (弟弟)” premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to critical success, picking up wins with the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury…
‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ Premieres at Sundance, Highlighting Pan-Asian Activism and Complex Legacies
…united different ethnicities and age groups within the AAPI community to fight his life imprisonment. The documentary, which premieres virtually today, Jan. 21, at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, will…
Los Angeles Film Festival to Hold Gala Screening for ‘Seoul Searching’
…film premiered to popular acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and screened at CAAMFest last month. The movie is loosely based on Lee’s own experiences at a…
Asian and Asian American Films in Sundance 2015
In 2002, Better Luck Tomorrow made a splashy buzz at Sundance Film Festival, complete with a rousing defense from the late Roger Ebert. Since then, there has been a…
Masala: Filmmaker Ramirez Escobar Re-imagines the Action Genre in ‘Leonor Will Never Die’
…Die.” After premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in January of this year, “Leonor Will Never Die” won Escobar the World Cinema Dramatic Competition Special Jury Prize for Innovative…
With Sundance Award-Winning ‘Gook,’ Justin Chon Gets Personal
Justin Chon’s “Gook” opens on an 11-year-old dancing in front of a building engulfed in flames, an image disarming, alarming and hypnotic. Winner of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival NEXT…
