The first Vietnamese artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Dinh Q. Le’s work references history and war, particularly the Vietnam War. His show, titled “The Farmer and the...
MI21 reimagines and reworks Mother India, the epic Bollywood film that captures the post-colonial Indian psyche, into a performance piece - 60 minutes of visual images accompanied live by a DJ and musicians. We'll...
The 33rd Asian American International Film Festival starts this week in New York. This year’s festival includes 23 features and 71 short films that showcase the latest works created by filmmakers of Asian descent in...
Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India in the past ten years, but this fact is ignored by much of the mainstream Indian media. A new documentary follows veteran journalist P.Sainath as he puts faces and...
Since China opened its doors in 1992 to international adoption, 70,000 children have left the country to join families in the US. A new documentary looks at the process of displacement and acculturation through the...
The new documentary Sun Behind the Clouds depicts the movement for an independent Tibet. So it's not surprising that China Film Group objected to its screening at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. But...
The first person of color drafted into the NBA, the Utah-born Misaka played for the New York Knicks during the 1947 season. A new film by Christine Toy Johnson and Bruce Johnson explores the pioneering athlete’s life...
The Chinatown Film Project, up now at the Museum of Chinese in America, is a film exhibition that aims to confront stereotyped representations of Chinatown by presenting new work reimagining the space geographically and...
This weekend, Asian CineVision presents the 32nd Asian American International Film Festival, the country’s first and longest-running festival dedicated to showcasing films by and about those of Asian descent. The...
In September 2007, thousands of Buddhist monks took to the streets of Rangoon to protest the military junta. In a few days, protestors swelled to 100,000. The regime countered by shutting off the Internet and clamping...
