Who Is Arthur Chu? (USA, 2017) [CAAMFest 2017]
Different people may have different conceptions of who Arthur Chu is. Some might remember him as the Asian American contestant on Jeopardy! who won 11...
She’s the Boss (Vietnam, 2017) [CAAMFest 2017]
She’s the Boss is Vietnam’s take on the Thai hit, ATM Er Rak Error (2012), which places romance in conflict with various security issues. Subject...
Plastic China (China, 2016) [CAAMFest 2017]
Photographer-filmmaker Wang Jiuliang has, since 2008, been documenting the opposite end of economic development and consumption in his home country: waste, where it goes, who...
AKA Seoul (South Korea/USA, 2016) [CAAMFest 2017]
During my first trip to South Korea, I was introduced to repatriated adopted Koreans through a friend who was also returning to the motherland for...
The Tiger Hunter (USA, 2016) [CAAMFest 2017]
It’s evident from the cheerfully realised 1970s setting of Lena Khan’s debut feature The Tiger Hunter that her tale of a plucky Indian engineering graduate...