Film Festivals

  • Cinema Little Saigon: A Retrospective

    In 2015, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, I curated a retrospective of films directed by Vietnamese Americans. The hope was to steer commemorations away from narratives of American military heroism and toward the experiences of those who experienced, critiqued, and remembered the event and its after-effects as refugees

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  • Watching Golden Slumbers at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

    This was a blog post I did for the SDAFF website in 2012, but it disappeared during one of our many website migrations. Long Beach’s Art Theatre is 12 miles from my childhood home in Cerritos, California. That makes the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival’s three days of screenings there my closest film festival

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