Interview with Woman of the Photographs Director Kushida Takeshi [OAFF 2020]
Takeshi Kushida’s feature debut Woman of the Photographs garnered great word of mouth at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020. Taken with Daisuke Miyazaki’s Videophobia,...
Woman of the Photographs (Japan, 2020) [OAFF 2020]
Writer/director Takeshi Kushida makes his feature debut with Woman of the Photographs wherein a middle-aged photographer living a carefully controlled existence finds everything disrupted by...
Preview – CAAMFest Online: Heritage at Home, May 13-22
The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is pleased to announce a reimagined festival experience. From May 13-22, CAAMFest Online: Heritage at Home will be...
Zero (Japan/USA, 2020)
Zero, or Observational Film #9 Seishin 0, is New York based Japanese documentary filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda’s follow up to his 2008 film Observational Film #2...
Changfeng Town (China, 2019)
Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Macondo town in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Changfeng Town manifests from the nostalgic imagination of Wang Jing,...
Coming Home Again (USA, 2019)
Chang-rae Lee is one of the most notable voices in Asian-American literature, a key figure in exploring the identity and evolution of the Asian subculture...
Interview with For Rei Director Yukari Sakamoto [OAFF 2020]
Yukari Sakamoto is an indie director who started making films while she was studying Philosophy at Sophia University. Her film Obake was part of MOOSIC...
For Rei (Japan, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
Stories of the effects of family breakups on children are hardly new to Japanese cinema with filmmakers like Hirokazu Koreeda and Shinji Somai using it...
Interview with Yan Director Keisuke Imamura [OAFF 2020]
Yan is the feature debut by Keisuke Imamura, a cinematographer who began his career by teaching himself to shoot independent films while studying at Nihon...
Preview – Queer East Presents Special Online Capsule Series ‘QE: HomeSexual’, April 18-May 17
In response to the Coronavirus outbreak and indefinite closure of independent venues, Queer East launches a new charitable initiative to celebrate inspiring queer activism and...