Justin Chon‘s third feature film Ms. Purple is a film that gives an unflinchingly real portrayal of a young woman stuck within familial turmoil. Tiffany Chu gives a stunning performance in her breakthrough role as Kasie, a Korean American woman who is forced to return home when her father’s terminal illness worsens. Further complicating the […]
In this genre-spanning film, director Minh Duc Nguyen brings the magic of moviemaking to his backyard of Garden Grove, CA. Actress Wanted follows struggling actress Mai (Thien Nguyen) as she takes on an acting job that seems perfect for her—to recreate an older Vietnamese man’s (Long Nguyen) most cherished memories by acting as a stand-in […]
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 sense, Wang is all too familiar with the draconic methods of the Chinese government and the propaganda that they use […]