Happy Cleaners, the debut feature film of Peter S. Lee and Julian Kim, tells the story of a Korean American family who runs a dry cleaning business in Flushing, New York. Instead of centering around ...
San Francisco-based filmmaker Debbie Lum has been making independent films for a while now. Way back in 2012, her first film Seeking Asian Female debuted at SXSW, which gave us a case study of Asian ...
Like many of us during this turbulent pandemic, I have become quite accustomed to the everyday homebody lifestyle. Waking up a quarter to lunchtime, slinking my way out of bed, only to end up mindlessly ...
Selena Yip is the Festival Director of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF), a “showcase event of Philadelphia Asian American Film and Filmmakers, a non-profit organization founded in 2008 dedicated to supporting and highlighting ...
Imagine you’re at the beach on a summer evening at sunset. The ebb and flow of the waves are almost as entrancing as the cotton candy clouds that fill the sky. You gaze out at ...
Perusing the virtual buffet of panels at Game Devs of Color Expo 2020 made me as indecisive and hungry (for game design knowledge) as the real thing. And if there was an equivalent to the ...
I’ve known Soft Blue Shimmer for a relatively short amount of time (or forever if we’re considering 2020 time). My first exposure to them came from Gaby Chiongbian’s kaleidoscopic picture of the band playing the ...
Songwriter Fuvk has remained freely elusive as an artist in Austin, Texas. Consistently releasing EPs and singles each year, she generally views her work as a series of timestamps through life. Her love for analog ...
As crazy and hectic as 2020 was (and still is), that didn’t stop Los Angeles-based Chinese American singer-songwriter Elise Go from manifesting positivity and GOALS during what many would see as a dark time. Her ...
Lingua Franca is many things: a narrative that spotlights the many untold stories often left in the margins, a lyrical polemic on trans sexuality and desire, an expression of the anxieties induced by Trump’s America, ...