Jeff Chiba Stearns Interview: Yellow Sticky Notes

While the main purpose for our interview with Jeff was to talk about his documentary film One Big Hapa Family, that didn’t mean we couldn’t go back in his past a bit and talk about his award winning, amazing animated/documentary film Yellow Sticky Notes....

Nittan Nazyra C. Noer Interview: Working Girls

Working Girls is a touching and eye-widening assemblage of three documentary shorts countering the patriarchal image of women in Indonesian society. Part 3 of this project, Ulfie Goes Home, is directed by Nittan and documents a transgender woman, Ulfie, who is on a...

Vivid Wang: Red Light Revolution

Vivid Wang stars in a a film about a man, Shunzi who is thrown out of his house by his wife leaving him jobless, partner-less, and forced to start over. A run-in with an old schoolmate leads him to a flamboyant supplier of adult toys and marital aids, thus beginning...

Christine Yoo Interview: Wedding Palace

Christine Yoo has written and directed a film, Wedding Palace, that is masterful in the way it moves from comedy to romance by blending the two seamlessly. Although it is a film about Korean culture and traditions of parents whose son is a Korean-American raised in a...

Film Forum New York City: City of Life and Death

While we focus most of our attention on English language Asian/Pacific Islander films, there are some films produced and made outside of the English speaking world that sometimes capture our attention. Such is the case with the film City of Life and Death that will be...