The last time that I truly felt represented on-screen was when I watched Minhal Baig’s Hala. When Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) fights back against her mother, Eram (Purbi Joshi), for being too protective, restrictive, and often ...
Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Remake of the acclaimed Belgian film ‘Hasta La Vista’. IMDb What ...
The irony that I was about to talk to Bong Joon-Ho about his award-winning film, Parasite, in one of the fanciest neighborhoods in Los Angeles (Beverly Hills, to be exact) was not lost on me. ...
We talked to director Leon Le during LAAPFF about his film, 'Song Lang'.
After sitting down with Jong Lee and Eunice Keitan at a coffee shop, I realized how much their personalities complement each other—just like their musical styles and skills do. Eunice speaks softly and radiates warmth ...
The first time I saw Jay Som (Melina Duterte) perform live, it was back in 2016. Opening for the-then relatively unknown singers Mitski and Japanese Breakfast, Duterte rounded out the now-legendary triple-bill of critically acclaimed ...
We talked to director Justin Chon during LAAPFF about his film, 'Ms. Purple'
When I asked Nanfu Wang, the Chinese documentarian behind 2019’s chilling One Child Nation, about the possibility of artistic freedom in China, she simply laughs. “More freedom in China?” Wang repeats. “Where?” In a certain ...
Rapper Casper Sun (Edward Chao) is a spontaneous workaholic. He’s an artist that doesn’t like to sit still for long, and he’s always thinking about his next project. “Right now my task list is like… ...
New York photographer-turned-music video director Bao Ngo is a master at her craft. In the age of the #influencer and banal Instagram photographs, Ngo’s artwork stands out as a bastion of photography as an artform–capturing ...
