I had a fabulous time at the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration in San Francisco this past Saturday, May 19th. The Asian Art Museum opened its doors for the festival and had free admission all day! There were splendid Southeast Asian dance performances (loved the children’s dances), art demonstrations, and even a flash mob [...]
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Asian Heritage Street Celebration
Posted in Art, Asian American Art, Asian Film, Asian Pacific American, movies, photos, pictures, video, tagged APA Heritage Month, APA History Month, Asian American Art, Asian Art, Asian Art Museum, Asian Heritage Street Celebration, food trucks, San Francisco, San Francisco street fair on May 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
My Night with Cambodian Cinema
Posted in Asian Film, Dragon Chica, Film, Interviews, movies, photos, tagged cambodian cinema, cambodian films, Cambodian movies, Davy Chou, Dragon Chica, French Cambodians, San Francisco International Film Festival, Saving Sourdi, Van Chann on April 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I wanted to let everybody know about a wonderful documentary, Golden Slumbers, about Cambodian movies of the 1960s and 70s that’s currently playing in the San Francisco International Film Festival. There’s still time to catch showings in Berkeley and San Francisco at the SFIFF. The film beautifully blends interviews of surviving filmmakers, actors and fans, [...]
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2012
Posted in Asian American Art, Asian American Literature, Asian Film, Film, movies, photos, pictures, tagged Always Korean Movie, Japantown, Korean Movies, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, SFIAAFF on March 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’m thrilled I was able to see the awesome Korean movie Always at the 30th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, which runs from March 8-18, 2012. I didn’t have a lot of time this year so I was glad I could see at least one Korean movie along with my two friends [...]
The High Life (dir. Zhao Dayong)
Posted in Asian Film, China, Film, movies, tagged China, Chinese directors, Chinese films, Chinese movies, dGenerate Films, Ghost Town, Karin Chien, San Francisco International Film Festival, SFIFF, The High Life, Zhao Dayong on July 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Opening shot: a room where Chinese women are assembling something shiny. A woman’s voice stumbles as she reads aloud a book of poems condemning corrupt bureaucrats and their cheap-looking mistresses. Uniformed guards stand and watch. On the soundtrack we hear an odd crinkling sound. It takes time to realize its the metallic material the women [...]
Chinese New Year: Time for the World’s Largest Annual Human Migration
Posted in Asian Film, China, Chinese New Yaer, Chinese New Year, family, movies, photos, Spring Festival, video, tagged Chinese migrant workers, Chinese New Year, Largest annual human migration, Last Train Home, Spring Festival, Year of the Rabbit on February 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Around the world, Chinese in the Diaspora and in China are spending the start of the Lunar New Year (February 3, 2011) by celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit! Families gather to eat hearty meals, give red envelopes with lucky money inside to children and unmarried young people, and set off firecrackers [...]
Dragon Chica Launch Party!
Posted in Asian American Art, Asian American Literature, Asian Pacific American, Dragon Chica, Facebook Fan Page, Interviews, movies, photos, pictures, Questions from readers, Saving Sourdi, video, Writing Process, tagged book launch party, Books Inc., Cambodia, Cambodian Americans, Cambodian culture, Dragon Chica, GemmaMedia, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Laura Mam, Monkey Dance Monkey, Nea as protagonist, Saving Sourdi, Seachampa, South East Asian Culture, The Like Me's on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We had an amazing launch party for my novel Dragon Chica co-sponsored by Books Inc. and the publisher GemmaMedia. San Francisco, live music by the Asian American band The Like Me’s, dim sum, a little talk by me about the book, and time to mingle with friends! I feel truly blessed. For everyone [...]
Shanghai: Art & Laara Ong
Posted in Art, Asian Film, Asian Pacific American, China, Chinese women, family, movies, photos, pictures, Shanghai, tagged Chinese contemporary art, Laara Ong, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Shanghai on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Had a great time this weekend at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum’s special art exhibit “Shanghai” with Vancouver-based playwright and actress Laara Ong. SF Asian Art Museum Laara is writing a play about Shanghai in the 1930s and 40s for a Vancouver theater company, so this exhibit also served as research for ideas on [...]
Dragon Chica, Khmer New Year video
Posted in Asian American Literature, Asian Film, Asian Pacific American, Dragon Chica, movies, Saving Sourdi, video, Writing Process, tagged Cambodian Americans, Cambodian New Year, Dragon Chica, Gemma Media, GemmaMedia, Khmer New Year, Khmer Rouge, Laura Mam, may-lee chai, refugees, Saving Sourdi, The Like Me's on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Been busy working on the final edits for my novel DRAGON CHICA. It’s a lot of work trying to get a manuscript into final shape before the book goes “into production,” as it’s called in publishing. Dragon Chica is the story of Nea Chhim and her family, who are Chinese-Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge [...]
Art in the Time of Revolution
Posted in Art, Asian American Art, Asian Film, Asian Pacific American, China, family, movies, photos, pictures, U.S.-China relations, tagged artist, China 20th century, Chinese history, Cultural Revolution, hapa, love story, mixed race, ROAM Data, Victor Kai Wang, William Wang Graylin on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had the pleasure of meeting William Wang Graylin, filmmaker and entrepreneur, while he was visiting San Francisco this week. Will produced and co-directed an independent documentary about his father, the painter Victor Kai Wang, called THEMES AND VARIATIONS. Will has a fascinating family history, which he also explores in the movie. His parents seemed [...]
