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All videos are available for viewing by students and faculty.  Students must screen videos at 303 Ingraham, the Asian Am office.  Faculty may reserve videos by calling (608) 263-2976 or emailing aasp@mailplus.wisc.edu and are responsible for their check-out and return.

AAAGS Symposium
Town Hall Meeting; April 5, 1997

17 AAIFF Tour Compilation Tape Feature Films

1.  Small Pleasure
Director Keith Lock; 86minutes, 1992-93, Feature Film
A young, ambitious woman, determined to make the most of her new life in Tornto, is contrasted with her roommate, also a recent immigrant, but one who still clings to the traditions in the old world. (film.com)

2.  Broken Journey
Director Sandip Ray; 83 minutes
A wealthy doctor has a dramatic change within when confronted by the extreme poverty of village India. He is confronted with the paradox of advances in medical practice on the one hand and the value of life of the poor on the other. The resultant questioning of medical practice, bourgeoise values and compassion for the poor forms the story of this film (Ray Family/Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection)

3.  The Soul Investigator
Director Kal Ng; 82 minutes
Yuan is an ordinary salaryman whose world is shaken when he loses his job, and finds a mysterious bleeding wound on his hand that does not heal. His crisis becomes more and more unnerving, as he realizes that his doctor, his wife, even his mistress, are unable or unwilling to see the wound. (film.com)

4.  The Guyver
Director Steve Wang; 123 minutes
Based on the Japanese comic-book character created by Toshiki Takaya, this hyper-kinetic science fiction fantasy plays like a live-action cartoon. (allmovie.com)

17 AAIFF Tour Compilation Tape Feature Films cont..
1.  Moving the Mountain – 85 min,
Director William G.W. Dere
17 AAIFF Tour Compilation Short Films (Tape #1 of 2)
1.  Drifter
Director: Sasithorn Ariyavicha; 8 min
2.  Mew Mew  
Director: Meredith Chin; 5 min

3.  White Monkey
Director: Alena Tam; 12 min
4.  Red, White, Blue & Yellow
Director: Angela D. Chou; 11 min
5.  The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Director: Eisha Marjara; 10 min
6.  Last Week of Summer 92
Director: Ching Ching Ip; 12 min
7.  Mizu Shobai
Director: Lana C. Li; 12 min
8.  Three Examples of Myself as Queen
Director: Anna Biller; 27 min
9.  For Anyone Returning to Earth
Director: Troy Suzuki; 7 min
10.  Ursa Minor Blue
Director: Shigei Tamura; 23 min
11.  Visiting Aunt Sue
Director: Greg Pak; 5 min
12.  New Freedom
Director: Camera Obscura; 9 min
13.  Great Girl
Director: Kim Su Theiler; 16 min
14.  Mama Blues
Director: Jae Soh; 30 min
15.  Eiga Zuka (Pickled Film)
Director: Sean Morijiro Sunada O’Gara; 2 min
16.  Waiting for Yat
Director: Steve J; 5 min
17.  Hysterio Passio
Director: Quentin Lee; 2 min
18.  Without Makeup You Haven’t Got A Prayer
Director: Azian Nurudin; 23 min
19.  Heavy Blow
Director: H.A. Duong; 23 min
20.  World of Longing
Director: Stanley Yung; 16 min

17 AAIFF Tour Compilation Short Films (Tape #2 of 2)
21.  Arn Chorn Pond
Director: Tsuyoshi Kimoto; 18 min
22.  White Christmas
Director: Michael Magnaye; 28 min
23.  Corner Store Blues
Director: Kaizad Gustad; 48 min
24.  Wounded Knee
Director: Hiroki Naoyoshi; 8 min
25.  Fear
Director: Martin David; 9 min
26.  Foreign Talk
Director: Joyce Lee; 11 min
27.  The Last Alpha
Director: Quan Lelan; 19 min
28.  Paper Doll
Director: Dao Strom; 39 min
29.  Across A Paper Ocean
Director: Jean Cheng   ; 11 min

Afterbirth
Director Jason Hwang; 34 minutes, 1982, Documentary
A visually thoughtful piece which examines the personae of Asian Americans, looking at the unpredictable relationship between inner identity and external pressures to be "Asian" and/or "American." Including footage of an "African Chinese" and a "Caucasian Chinese," Afterbirth portrays cultural and national identity as nonabsolute concepts.

American Pastime
Director: Desmond Nakano; 106 minutes, 2007, Feature Film, Color, DVD
American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.  Built to house Japanese-American citizens whose loyalties stood questioned by the pressures of war, these camps created many hardships for their internees.  Rounded up and uprooted from their everyday lives, they remained loyal to the United States and ironically turned to that most Americans of sports – baseball – as a way to deal with their plight.

American Sons
Director: Steven Okazaki; 41 minutes, 1995, Docu-drama
American Sons is a provocative examination of how racism shapes the lives of Asian American men. Actors Yuji Okumoto, Kelvin Han Yee, Lane Nishikawa, and Ron Muriera tell real stories based on interviews with Asian Americans throughout the country. They express the issues of hate violence, the stereotypes placed on Asian American men, the model minority myth, and the deep psychological damage that racism causes over generations. The film presents a painful and angry view of American life never before explored in a film or television program.

And Thereafter
Director: Hosup Lee; 56 minutes
Korean filmmaker Hosup Lee captures a woman caught between Jersey and Korea in his astonishing portrait of 76-year-old Korean War  bride Young-Ja Wike.  Young-Ja boasts the kind of life story often touted as the American Dream – or at least the American Immigrant Dream.  During the Korean War, she married a G.I. and traveled to the land of opportunity, and then raised three children.  But LEE uncovers a different story in his brilliant, almost uncomfortably intimate documentary.  Grandma’s story is one of loneliness, and domestic servitude.  She escaped from the crushing poverty of post-war Korea only to find an American life full of ugly secrets and an inability to communicate.  One gets the sense that LEE may be the first to empathize with her feelings of rootlessness and maybe the first person to listen during her 40-odd years in exile.  In that connection, we find some small amount of hope.  Hosup LEE was born in Korea came stateside to earn a Masters at NYU.  And Thereafter is the first in a planned trilogy about Korean women married to American G.I’s  Preceded by the short: A Cat and I South Korea/ Dong-hee Ann A young girl cuts paper dolls and briefly escapes the world with a cat in tow.

Animal Appetites
Producer/Director: Michael Cho; 20 minutes, 1991, Documentary
Animal Appetites is a wry look at the 1989 Long Beach trial of two Cambodian immigrants charged with killing a dog for food.  With over 99 million cattle and 5.7 billion chickens consumed per year in the U.S., this humorous video poses the question, "Why all the fuss over one dog?”  The story follows their trial on animal cruelty charges and examines the law prohibiting consumption of pets, passed as a result of the case.

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Asian Cinevision, “And Justice For All”

Banana Split
Producer/Director: Kip Fulbeck; 38 minutes, 1990, Experimental
This autobiographical collection of 25 short stories by Fulbeck examines his relationship to society and family as a Chinese American/Amerasian. The stories follow his life from childhood through college, including growing up in an all-white elementary school and his first date with an Asian woman. Insightful, provocative, and humorous.

The Basement Girl
Director: Midi Onodera; 12 minutes, 2000, Short Film
A young woman finds solace in her basement apartment after a lover has left her. With only junk food and a television to comfort her, she embarks on a journey of self discovery and emerges a new independent person.

Being Hmong Means Being Free NEW!!
Wisconsin Public Television | Documentary | 2000 | 56 mins
Being Hmong Means Being Free highlights the history, culture and identity of the Hmong immigrants who have settled in the United States between 1975 and the early 1990s.  The documentary looks at Hmong life in this county as seen through the eyes of the program host, seventeen year-old Lia Vang.  (Wisconsin Public Television)

BBQ Muslims/Death Threat
Director: Zarqa Nawaz; Short Films
Through humor and the absurd, Zarqa Nawaz spins two entertaining vignettes sure to stimulate dialogue about how the “terrorist” stereotype has the power to influence society as well as its victims.
BBQ Muslims (Canada, 1995, 5 minutes, Satire) In the days following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, there was a media frenzy pointing fingers at the North American Muslim community. Several weeks later, Oklahoma police arrested and convicted Timothy McVeigh, a white American. The cruel irony of that historic moment inspired this offbeat tale of two Muslim American brothers’ backyard barbecue mishaps.
Death Threat (Canada, 1998, 19 minutes, Satire) The story of a young Muslim woman who has written an appallingly bad Harlequin-type novel and is struggling to find a publisher. Depressed, frustrated and irritated after receiving her fifty-ninth rejection, she decides that controversy is the only way to catch a publisher’s eye; but her exploitation of cultural stereotypes eventually backfires on her.

Better Luck Tomorrow
Director: Justin Lin, 2003, 99 min, Feature Film, Color, DVD
Never underestimate an overachiever.  To his classmates and teachers, high-schooler Ben Manibag (Parry Shen) appears to be the “model” student: a perfectionist and overachiever, destined for nothing less than graduating at the top of his class and then attending a prestigious college.  But underneath this persona is a darker side – Ben and his bored high-school buddies lead double lives, flying high in a world of petty crime and material excess in order to ease pressures of “being perfect.”  It’s a free-wheeling lifestyle that soon takes a downward spiral, leading to an unexpected end.  An Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival, Better Luck Tomorrow is a gripping, edgy and provocative film that rips the tranquil, well-manicured façade off of middle-class suburbia and cultural stereotypes.

Between Two Worlds: The Hmong Shaman in America 
Producers: Taggart Siegle, Director & Dwight Conquergood; 25 minutes, 1985, Documentary
This film gives an intimate account of the life and work of a Hmong shaman transplanted from the mountains of Laos to Wisconsin. It documents ancient shamanistic rituals and ceremonies such as animal sacrifice and trance-like healing.

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Black Haired and Black Eyed
Director: Julie Whang; 9 minutes, 1995 b&w
Synopsis

Bloodlines: a medical mission to Iloilo, Phillippines
Producer/Co-Director: James Espinas, Co-Director/Editor: Timothy Kiley; 53 minutes, 2004, Documentary
Bloodlines chronicles the 2003 medical mission of the Philippine Medical Society of Northern California (PMSNC).  Volunteer doctors, nurses, and support staff travel to Iloilo, a province in central Philippines, to serve an impoverished community that lacks access to basic healthcare.  Working with limited time and resources, the volunteers struggle to meet the needs of thousands of patients, experiencing moments of inspiration and heartbreaking choices along the way.

Blue Collar and Buddha 
Director: Taggart Siegel; 57 minutes, 1988, Documentary
A provocative profile of a Lao community which faces an openly hostile, racist environment in Rockport, Illinois. Local Euro American citizens, frustrated by economic depression and angry about losing the Vietnam war, confront recent immigrants who are trying to preserve their native culture and Buddhist religion.

Bontoc Eulogy
Director: Marlon Fuentes; 60 minutes, 1995, Docudrama
This personal and poignant docudrama portrays the Filipino experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, telling its story from the point of view of a present-day Filipino immigrant in the U.S. whose grandfather, Markod, was exhibited as an Igorot warrior at the Fair. It chronicles Markod's experience, one of eleven hundred natives brought to America to be part of the "Philippine Reservation."

Broken Blossoms
Director: D.W. Griffith; 90 minutes, 1913, color tinted, DVD
Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient. Lillian Gish plays a 15-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable experience.  

Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey
Director: John Little; 100 minutes, 2001, Documentary/Movie, Color, DVD
His famed one-inch punch could knock a burly man off his feet.  He could reel off pushups while balancing on one finger.  You’ll witness those feats and more in Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey.  And you’ll see for the first time anywhere something more astonishing: over 30 continuous minutes of fight action from the ambitious, soul-baring movie Lee was making at the time of his July 20, 1973 death. 
John Little (Bruce Lee: In His Own Words), drawing on invaluable film footage missing for 28 years, constructs this superb look at the man and his uncompleted movie.  Part documentary (with previously unseen home reels of Lee and more), part movie experience (with the long-missing footage assembled according to script notes found among Lee’s personal effects) and wholly entertaining, Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey is a must-see journey for every Lee fan.

Bruce Lee Meets Snoop Doggy Dogg
Producer: Tou Ger Xiong; 30 minutes, 1997
Hmong performer, Tou Ger Xiong, uses storytelling, rap, and breakdancing to help educate audiences about the experience of being Hmong in America. As a four year old, Xiong immigrated from Laos during the Vietnam War to Minnesota. He begins his story in the refugee camps to his life today in America. Xiong recounts his first day of school, his early awareness of racism, and the stress of biculturalism among first generation Hmong Americans. He closes with a traditional Hmong folktale. Following the performance are interviews of various audience members. (See also "Hmong Means Free" by same artist.)

Bruce Lee: The Master Collection

Fists of Fury
Director: Lo Wei; 99 minutes, 1971, color, DVD  
In his first starring role, legendary martial arts star BRUCE LEE sets the screen ablaze in this thrilling tale of revenge and retribution.  Having made a vow to never fight again, a factory worker named Cheng (LEE) does his best to put up with an abusive boss.  But when Cheng’s beautiful cousin is kidnapped by company thugs, Cheng is forced to take matters into his own hands – and fists – to save her.  Packed with pulse-pounding action, FISTS OF FURY, remains one of the most spellbinding martial arts thrillers ever made.

The Chinese Connection
Director: Lo Wei; 107 minutes, 1972, color  
In the China of 1908, respecting one’s teacher is a sign of breeding, and avenging his murder a sacred duty.  When a martial arts master (BRUCE LEE) learns his revered kung fu instructor has been murdered, his shock turns first to disbelief, then to anger.
Determined to wrest vengeance from the gang responsible, he travels to shanghai to hunt down the killers – and ends up facing some of the most dangerous opponents.  A combination of power, grace and humor, this action-packed thriller is a Bruce Lee classic.

Return of the Dragon
Director: Bruce Lee; 90 minutes, 1973, color  
In this high-kicking martial arts thriller, a young man (BRUCE LEE) is called to Rome to help a family friend whose restaurant is being targeted by local gangsters.  Used to getting their own way, these ruthless men make the mistake of underestimating the young man’s ingenuity.  When they are unable to get rid of him, they call in an international martial arts champion (CHUCK NORRIS), creating the ultimate clash of kung fu masters in the ancient city’s majestic coliseum.

Game of Death
Director: Robert Clouse; 100 minutes, 1972/1979, color  
In his final film, BRUCE LEE is Billy Lo, a young kung fu movie star with a flourishing career and a promising future.  As the leader of a syndicate known for its exploitation of entertainers, Dr. Land jumps at the chance to capitalize on Billy’s celebrated status and that of his singer-girlfriend, Ann.  Refusing to sign with Land, Billy’s martial arts mastery is put to the test when he is brutally harassed by Land’s men in an attempt to change his mind.  In a stunning showdown, Billy goes one-on-one with a villainous stream of deadly kung fu fighters in a final bid for his freedom.

Bruce Lee: The Legend
Executive Producer: Raymond Chow; 88 minutes, 1984, color  
Actor. Teacher. Hero.  Legend.  From his humble Hong Kong childhood to his meteoric stardom, BRUCE LEE was all those things and much more.  Listen to intimate recollections by friends and students like Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and many others.  From his work in the television series “The Green Hornet” to his final film, GAME OF DEATH, meet this extraordinary man behind the legend.

Bui Doi: Life Like Dust 
Producers: Ahrin Mishan & Nick Rothenberg; 28 minutes, 1994, Documentary
Inside the mind of Ricky Phan, currently serving an 11 year sentence for armed robbery in a California state prison. Through the integration of memories and recent experience, the film forces us to ask ourselves which is more violent: fleeing from a war-ravaged country or trying to survive in an alien western culture? Bui Doi is an expansion of the award-winning short film Giang Ho: Crazy Life.

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Butoh: Body On The Edge of Crisis
Director/Producer: Michael Blackwood; 89:17 minutes, 1991
Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan’s equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism.  Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on the center-stage.  The dancer is used as a medium to his or her inner life, but not for the portrayal of day to day existence.  A Dionysian dance of nudity, eroticism, and sexuality, Butoh’s scale of expression ranges from meditative tenderness to excessive grotesqueness.  By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater.  At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.  An alliance of tradition and rebellion, Butoh is one of the most fascinating underground dance movements.  “Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis” is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participating of major Butoh choreographers and their companies.  Written by Michael Blackwood

Cambodian Doughnut Dreams 
Director: Charles Davis; 27 minutes, 1990, Documentary
As a result of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, 45,000 Cambodian refugees fled in 1979 and resettled in Los Angeles.  Many opened up doughnut shops.  Today, 80% of the doughnut businesses in Los Angeles are run by Cambodian refugees.  This film powerfully documents stories of three Cambodian doughnut business owners in L.A., all of whom see themselves primarily as "survivors" of the Pol Pot regime. They reveal stories of starvation, illness, and the painful separation of families.

Cats of Mirikitani; 74 minutes, DVD
Air Guitar Nation; 81 minutes

Chan Is Missing
Director: Wayne Wang; 80 minutes, 1984, Black and White
Two cabbies search San Francisco’s Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000.  Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey that illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.  Source: IMDB

The Children We Sacrifice
Director: Grace Poore; 61 minutes, 2000, Documentary
The Children We Sacrifice was shot in India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the United States. It is a powerful documentary about incestuous sexual abuse of the South Asian girl child. Insights into the far-reaching psychological, social and cultural consequences of incest are accompanied by thoughtful assessments of strategies that have helped adult women cope with childhood trauma. This personal and collective letter from South Asian incest survivors and their advocates is a validation of their struggle and a compelling charge to protect future generations of children.

China Dolls
Director: Yeung Chi-kin; 91 minutes, 1992, Foreign/Erotica, DVD

Compilation By Asian Directors 

•  Bridge Passage                       Nicole Chung, 2001, 6:00
• Dream Machine                         Nicole Chung, 2002, 9:30
• Family                                      Heather Keung, 2001, 4:30
• In the Dark                                Ho Tam, 2004, 6:00
• Shaolin Sisters                          Mishann Lau, 2004, 5:19
• You’re Dead After School          Mishann Lau, 2004, 5:30
• Trying to Keep Concentrate        Ruthann Lee, 2004, 7:30
• Screen Test                               Linda Lee, 2004, 6:56
• Confessions                             Samuel Chow, 2003, 4:20          

Crossing Chasms
Director: Jennifer Christine Yang Hee Arndt; 60 minutes, 1998, Documentary
Crossing Chasms is a documentary about Jennifer Arndt, a Korean adoptee, who returns to her birth country seeking answers to the complex questions surrounding her adoption. In her search to define her identity, she walks through her past to understand the present. On this journey, she meets seven other Korean adoptees who share their experiences as she tries to track down her own biological family. Through these stories, we learn about the complex issues facing Korean adoptees through their own voices.

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Daughter from Danang
Directors: Gail Dolgin & Vicente Franco; 83 minutes, 2002, Documentary
Heidi seems like the "all-American girl" from small-town Pulaski, Tennessee. Born Mai Thi Hiep in Danang, Vietnam, she was the daughter of a Vietnamese woman and American serviceman. At the end of the war, rumors spread that racially mixed children would be persecuted. Fearing for her daughter's life, Heidi's mother placed the 7 year-old on an "Operation Babylift" plane to the United States. Twenty-two years later, longing to connect with her roots, she embarks on a journey that takes her to Vietnam. There she is reunited with her birth mother and her Vietnamese family. What seems like a happy ending quickly turns into a heart-wrenching clash of cultures.

David Wong Louie "Pangs of Love"
November 13, 1992  Book Reading
Although PANGS OF LOVE is the title of this collection and one of the short stories contained within, it could easily be used for every tale in this book. The stories all concern love and nearly every character experiences it as a pang. It is the type of love experienced by people alienated by culture, language, and generation.  (Magill Book Reviews)   

Dirty Laundry
Director: Richard Fung; 30 minutes, 1995, experimental narrative
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The Displaced View
Director: Mido Onodera; 52 minutes, 1988, Documentary
The documentary depicts the journy of a Japanese American woman in search of herself through her grandmother, who is the last of her family born in Japan.  Images of old photos, movies, and experimental film techniques emphasizes the isolation the granddaugther feels as a japanese woman who cannot speak the Japanese language.  Onodera focuses on Japanese women as the preservers of their traditional culture and the erosion of culture through assimilation.  The Japanese American identity is revealed through bridging generation gaps.

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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story    
Director: Rob Cohen; 120 minutes, 1998, Color, DVD
Jason Scott Lee and Lauren Holly star in this unforgettable glimpse into the life, love, and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee.  From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America.  Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer (Robert Wagner) and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one of the most charismatic action heroes in motion picture history. 
Hailed as “an immeasurably entertaining movie” by CBS-TV, Dragon is ablaze with comedy, touching romance, and spectacular martial arts sequences.

Eagle Against the Sun
Director: John Akahoshi; 27 minutes, 1992, Drama
"Eagle Against the Sun” follows the story of Helen Nakamura, a vivacious 17-year-old Japanese American high school senior, in the days immediately preceding and following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Introduced as a typical teenager dealing with modest concerns like fitting in with her peers and finding a date for the school dance, Helen, overnight, becomes the victim of racial taunts at school; potential dates shun her and her family's farm is vandalized. Suffused with youthful innocence yet tempered with righteous indignation, "Eagle Against the Sun” stands as a sharply observed reminder of the human toll discrimination and internment took on the lives of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Ethan Mao
Director: Quentin Lee; 87 minutes, 2004, Color
Kicked out of his house because he’s gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.  Source: IMDB   

Face

The Fact of Asian Women
Director: Celine Parreñas Shimizu; 27 minutes, 2002, Documentary
"Contemporary Asian American female actors re-enact scenes from popular Hollywood films. Featuring three generations of Asian American femme fatales in Hollywood, the film re-examines the fantastic figure of the “lotus blossom” and “dragon lady” exemplified in the roles played by Anna May Wong in the 1920s’-1940s, the “prostitute with a heart of gold” embodied by Nancy Kwan in the 1960s’ and the contemporary “dominatrix” Lucy Liu. Performing these characters, young contemporary actors collide with the “ghosts” of Asian women in Hollywood through the revised endings of their major films performed on the streets of San Francisco . The actors then discuss sexuality in their roles and in terms of their own self-formation as actresses of color."

Forbidden City
Producer/Director/Writer Author Dong, 56 minutes, 1989, Documentary
It was the swinging '30s.  The big bands of the '40s.  It was San Fancisco nightlife.  Baghdad by the Bay... and the crowds were packing the nation's premiere all-chinese nightclub, Forbidden City.

Part That's Entertainment and part PBS, Forbidden City, U.S.A. takes a dazzling and humorous look at this forgotten chapter of entertainment history.  The "Chinese Fred Astaire," the "Chinese Sohpie Tucker," and the "Chinese Sally Rand" are just some of the players that take you back in time when the only Chinese were known for were chop suey joints and laundaries.

See and hear rare performances long burried in vaults and private collections.  These include new prints from 35mm nitrate negatives and music from vintage 78 records.  From tap dancers to bubble dancers, from "Some of These Days" to "Alexander's Ragtime Band."  It's all here... With a new angle!

Fool's Dance 
Producer/Director: Robert A. Nakamura; 30 minutes, 1983, Drama w/Study Guide
Set in a convalescent home, a mysterious patient with a penchant for Shakespeare reaffirms the joys of living despite the presence of old age and death. He proves that there is a method to his "madness" and teaches staff and residents that life, even in the shadow of death, is to be enjoyed and lived to its fullest.

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Grading
Heather Keung; 60 minutes, 2005

Great Girl
Director: Kim Su Theiler; 14 minutes, 1994, Short Film
Drawing from personal experience, Kim Su Theiler’s first film is an evocative and poetic drama about historical and cultural disorientation. A woman returns to Korea looking for her birth mother, having come to America as a child adoptee. A powerful short film about the nature and texture of being a foreigner.

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Growing Pain
Asian CineVision

Hapa: One Step At A Time
Producer: Midori Sperandeo; 2001, 27 minutes, Documentary
A first person documentary about what it means to be biracial and living in America today. Midori Sperandeo explores self discovery, identity, and offers perspective on being hapa. Through interviews, she presents an overview of the struggle of being hapa and explores the evolving acceptance of ethnically mixed race people in a growing multicultural society.

Here and Now
Documentary
A Here and Now is an Asian American theatre troop that uses it's art to tell a story here in America.  

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How Bruce Lee Changed the World
Producers: Waddel Media/Leeway Media Group in associated with Bruce Lee Enterprises for History; 94 minutes, 2009, Color, DVD
With his laser-quick hands and feet, steely body, and a vast knowledge of Chinese martial arts, Bruce Lee was a one-of-a-kind powerhouse, taking on-and taking out- the bad guys with gusto.  His astonishing skills brought him fame and movie roles, but who knew the real man behind the flying arms and legs?
Now, HISTORY tells you the whole story, from his birth in San Francisco to his mysterious death – some say the result of a curse – at age 32, just three weeks before the opening of his only U.S. film, Enter the Dragon.  Along the way, Lee introduced ancient martial arts to the modern world, securing a permanent place in our popular culture.
With seldom-seen interviews and rare home hovies, hear from those he influenced – from Jackie Chan to John Woo, Brett Ratner, LL Cool J, and Stan Lee – as we explore HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD.

I'm on a Mission from Buddha
Producer: Lane Nishikawa; 60 minutes, 1991, Performance 
Critically hailed performance artist Lane Nishikawa explores Asian American identity and issues in the 1990's in this acclaimed and explosive one-man show. The themes of assimilation, conflict, and prejudice are examined in a series of vignettes ranging from comic sketches to dramatic historical/ political pieces.
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I’m The One That I Want: Margaret Cho filmed live in concert
Director: Lionel Coleman; 96 minutes, Color, Comedy Performance, 2000, DVD
Named one of the Entertainment Weekly’s “Great Performances of the Year,” the critically acclaimed I’m the one that I want is comedian Margaret Cho’s raunchy and hysterically funny stand-up concert.  Filmed live at The Warfield in Margaret’s hometown of San Francisco, I’m the One That I Want is Margaret Cho at her very best – funny, shocking, irreverent.
As the country’s most visible Asian Americans, she has a unique perspective on identity and acceptance.  As one of the country’s funniest and most quoted personalities, she takes no prisoners.  I’m the One That I Want is filled with dead-on insights about the experiences of being a woman in the spotlight from someone who has seen the highs and lows of life.

Japanese American Women: A Sense of Place
Producer/Director: Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro; 28 minutes, 1992
The stereotype of the polite, docile, exotic Asian woman is shattered in this documentary in which a dozen women speak about their experiences as part of the "model minority." This film explores the ambivalent feelings the women have both towards Japan and the United States. The underlying theme is the burden of being different. An uneasy feeling prevails of being neither Japanese nor American, and the documentary ultimately becomes the story of Japanese American women and their search for a sense of place.

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Karen Tei Yamashita
April 16, 1993- April 17, 1993, 100min

Kelly Loves Tony
Producer/Director: Spencer Nakasako; 57 minutes, 1998, Documentary
She's a straight A student; he’s trying to leave gang life behind. A camcorder becomes both witness and confidante for these markedly singular yet utterly typical teens as they self-document the trials of growing up too fast and too soon in urban America. Emmy award-winning filmmaker Spencer Nakasako deftly guides this video diary of a young Southeast Asian couple wrestling with the demands of love, parenting, dreams, and disillusionment in the nebulous cultural zone between first and second generation immigrant life.

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Kulture Machine

• Jesus Henry Christ
• Seibutsu (Still: Life)
• St. Paul
• Celamy
• God is Good

The Life of Reverend C.C. Hung: Find a Need and Fill It
30:00 mins; 1989
Originally aired on public television in Washington D.C. as part of the Urban Odyssey Series, this film documents the life of Rev. C.C. Hung, 1935 founder of the Chinese Community Church.

M Butterfly
Director: David Cronenberg; 101 minutes, 1993
A French diplomat falls prey to a Chinese double agent in a chessgame of cultures that involve both the politics of the east and west and of male and female.   

Mai's America
Producer/Director: Marlo Poras; 72 minutes, 2002, Documentary
"Mai's America is a personal journey that defies all expectations. Mai, a smart, vivacious, and resilient Vietnamese teenager, travels to America for her senior year of high school, shouldering her family's high expectations and her own visions of western-style success. Yet, nothing in Mai's wildest imagination could prepare her for what she finds in rural Mississippi, where encounters with white Pentecostal and black Baptist host-families, a local transvestite, and South Vietnamese immigrants challenge her long-held ideas about America, the concept of freedom, her identity and even her homeland of Vietnam."

Many Faces of Eve (Asian Cinevision Program)

Matters of Race
Executive Producer: Orlando Bagwell; Senior Producer: Jacquie Jones; color, 4 hours, DVD
What obligation does a hospital have to employ people who are the same race as it serves?  How does race shape the response of a small rural town when its population nearly doubles due mainly to immigration from Mexico and Central America?  What happens when laws meant to protect the rights of one minority group are used to accuse another of discrimination?  What does race mean anyway?  Can you be more than one?
Using the personal writings of several leading American authors, and the voices and stories of Americans young and old from New York to Los Angeles, Honolulu, Hawaii to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, MATTERS OF RACE explores the complex demands of the country’s rapidly changing multiracial and multicultural society and shows how American citizens imagine the new America of the 21st century.

The Divide (part 1)
Produced and Directed by John J. Valadez

 Race is/Race Ain’t (part 2)
Produced and Directed by Orlando Bagwell and Lulie Haddad

We’re Still Here (part 3)
Produced and Directed by Sindi Gordon

Tomorrow’s America

Everyother
Produced and Directed by Phil Bertelsen

Who I Became
Produced and Directed by Mike Siv and Aram Collier

I Belong to This
Produced, Directed, Written by Dustinn Craig

Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story
Director: Joan Saffa; 60 minutes, 1990, Documentary
 An excellent documentary on the life, works, and cultural tradition of Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston. Kingston was born to immigrant Chinese parents in Stockton, California. She uses images, stories, and memories of her family's past to create her highly acclaimed works of literature. Issues such as racism and multicultural development are topics in discussion. There are interviews with other Asian American artists and authors; Rupert Garcia (a childhood friend), Jade Snow Wong, Victor Wong, John Leonard, Amy Tan, and David Henry Hwang.

Mighty Warriors of Comedy
Director: Sung H. Kim, 56 min, 2006, DVD
The funniest sketch comedy troupe you've never heard of. A documentary on the ingenuity of the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.  The documentary focuses on the struggles of long-time Asian American Comedy Troupe The 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.

Miss India Georgia
Producer/Director: Daniel Friedman & Sharon Grimberg, 56 minutes, 1997
Miss India Georgia follows four contestants during the hectiv weeks leading up to Atlanta's annual South Asian beauty pageant.  In discussions with their grandparents about arranged marriages, in quarrels with their boyfriends, and in revealing conversations with Indian and non-Indian friends, these young women disclose the comlexity of their feelings about growing up in the U.S. as children of immigrant parents.  Sometimes funny and sometimes sad, the stories of these resilient teenagers teach us that each individual's experience of "Americanization" is unique.  (Urban Life Productions)

Mitsuye and Nellie
Directors: Allie Light & Irving Saraf; 58 minutes, 1981, Documentary
The lives of Asian American poets Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong, first published in the 1970's. (2 copies)

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Muni to the Marriage
Director: Stuart Gaffney; 5 minutes, 2004, Documentary, Black and White
February 12, 2004, the day San Francisco made marriage history.  A short Muni ride to City Hall suddenly turns partners of 17 years into newlyweds.
During the ride, the filmmaker reflects on the difficulties experienced by his Chinese-American mother and White father more than 50 years ago, who were only able to marry when California’s law against interracial marriage was overturned.  Source: asianamericanfilm.com

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My German Boyfriend
Director: Wayne Yung; 37 minutes, 2004, color

• (English Version: English and German with English Subtitles) 18:29, 2004
• (German Version: German and English with German Subtitles) 18:28, 2004
  A gay Chinese-Canadian encounters ethnic stereotypes as he seeks his ideal boyfriend in Berlin.  A comedy about mistaken cultural identities, a diary of immigrant isolation, and a love letter to a boyfriend who might have been.

Never Perfect
Film by Regina Park; 65 minutes, 2007, DVD
Are Beauty Ideals Influenced by Race, History and Geopolitics?
In 2006, there were 11 million cosmetic surgeries performed in the United States which constituted an $11.4 billion industry.  As popular media moves towards a generic and idealized notion of beauty in our obsession with the cult of the celebrity, women all over the world battle the myriad influences affecting their body image and self-perceptions in the race to achieve “perfection”

Never Perfect explores the complex journey of a young Vietnamese-American woman’s struggle with popular perceptions of beauty and body image as she fights the stigma of racial self-hatred in her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery.

New Hmong Life in America (Hmoob Lub Neej Tshiab Nyob Hauv Ameslikas)
40 minutes; Dane County Hmong Video Project
This film is produced by a group of local Hmong refugees about the opportunities and difficulties facing their people in this country. Through interviews and coverage of various aspects of life in America, this video deals with such topics as education, jobs and training, legal matters, shamanism, and the difficult issue of cultural survival in America.

Nobuko in A Grain of Sand
15 minutes excerpt from 1 hr 30 min show perferomed at Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1995 (2 copies)
Synopsis 

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story Director: Eric Paul Fournier; 60 minutes, 2000, Documentary
Fred Korematsu was probably never more American than when he resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his landmark Supreme Court case in 1944, but never his indigantion and resolve. Of Civil Wrongs and Rights is the untold history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu--one that finally turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory.

Oh Saigon
Written, Produced & Directed: Doan Hoang; 58 minutes, 2007, DVD
Accompanied by gripping images from the wa, OH, SAIGON, is an compelling and beautifully crafted personal documentary about one refugee family’s attempts to face its divided past and heal the physical and emotional wounds of the Vietnam War.

A father faces the brother he fought against decades after the conflict that split them.  A mother in impossible circumstances is forced to choose between her daughter and her husband.  Meanwhile, two first-generation Vietnamese-American sisters try to reconcile a harrowing past that altered the course of their lives.  One was helicoptered out of Saigon at the end of the war, while the other was left behind and suffered imprisonment and kidnapping.    

Outsider/Insider: Asian American Journeys, October 23-24 1998; “Across Bridges of Masks and Song: Dance and Music of Korea”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Lecture/Performance

The Princess of Nebraska
Director: Wayne Wang; 80 minutes, 2009
A China-born 18-year-old finds herself four months pregnant.  She interrupts her studies to travel from Nebraska to San Francisco to determine what to do about her pregnancy.  It is a revealing look at a young woman growing up under the new economic prosperity of China over the last 20 years. 

Perpetual Emotion 101/102
Compilation of Short Films
Perpetual Emotion 101/102 showcase the youthful excitement, energy and creative promise of a new generation of film and video makers. Asian Pacific American student groups and college residential education programs will be able to refer to these collections, and teachers will discover the anthology titles to be potent supplementary materials for academic courses ranging from Asian American Studies to the social sciences and humanities.
The perfect introductions to the best in recent independent cinema from the Asian Diaspora, Perpetual Emotion 101/102 touch upon a wide range of topics and feelings, including amusing meditations on identity, heartbreaking evocations of childhood, and powerful narratives hinged upon painful decisions to stand up for oneself and for what's right. Impressive on their own, together these calling cards attest to the vitality and range of a movement swelling with talented representatives from our many communities.

Perpetual Emotion 101

Bangs
Director: Carolynne Hew
Canada, 1996, 8 minutes
Peer pressure and media imagery influence a young girl's fluctuating opinions of her looks and self-worth.

Mouse
Director: Greg Pak
USA, 1997, 11 minutes
A young man squirms out of a heated discussion about pregnancy with his girlfriend by making a mouse hunt his top priority.

Kung Pao Chicken
Director: Richard Kim
USA, 1997, 6 minutes
How a Chinese chef revolutionized American culture and proved that the chopstick is mightier than the fork.

Lessons in Defensive Driving
Director: Carla San Diego
USA, 1998, 6 minutes
An ordinary trip to the DMV becomes a downward spiral into spiritual gridlock when the oppressions of road etiquette take their toll upon the nicest guy on earth.

Fall 1990
Director: Quentin Lee
USA, 1995, 35 minutes
Freshman year provides the backdrop for the romance between two young men determined not to let their dramatically different pasts dictate their future together.

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A Thousand Birds and a Pair of Shoes
Director: Oliver Tan
USA, 1996, 12 minutes
Happy to Get Her is a hyper-romantic world where origami cranes symbolize eternal love and shoes are clues that bad luck's just outside the door.

Crickets
Director: Jane E. Kim
Canada, 1998, 12 minutes
The simpler pleasures and fragile innocence of childhood are brutally robbed from a girl during an afternoon of play.

Shopkeeping
Director: Avie Luthra
USA, 1998, 14 minutes
Desperate to keep his business afloat, an Indian shopkeeper reluctantly discloses a customer's secret love affair to her criminal brother who "protects" the establishment.

Love Ltd.
Director: Jennifer Phang
USA, 1999, 24 minutes
A sister and brother turn a dysfunctional family dinner into an unappreciated coming out party when each try to proudly share details of their sexual lives with their homophobic mother.

Peter Bacho: A Reading from “Cebu”
February 19, 1993 7:00pm

Picture Bride
Director: Kayo Hatta; 95 minutes, 1995, Color
With only a picture in hand, a beautiful woman leaves behind all she knows for the far-off islands of Hawaii – and an arranged marriage with a man she has never met!  Though at first regretful of her decision, in time she discovers that life in her new island home offers more passion, friendship and excitement than she could have imagined!

The Price You Pay
Producer/Director: Christine Keyser; 29 minutes, 1988, Documentary
The Price You Pay explores the rich cultural heritage of the Vietnamese, Laotian, and Khmer people, and conveys in very humane terms the pain and frustration of resettlement."-KQED- TV, San Francisco

The Princess of Nebraska
   Producer/Director: Wayne Wang; 80 minutes, 2008, DVD
A China born 18-year-old finds herself four months pregnant. She interrupts her studies to travel from Nebraska to San Francisco to determine what to do about her pregnancy. It is a revealing look at a young woman growing up under the new economic prosperity of China over the last 20 years.

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Rabbit in the Moon
Director/Producer: Emiko Omori; 85 minutes, 1999, Documentary/Memoir
Rabbit in the Moon is a documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the WWII internment camps of the Japanese American community. It is also the story of two sisters, both former internees, filmmaker Emiko Omori and writer Chizuko Omori, who revisited the absence of this vital history in their lives while searching for the memory of their mother. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, Rabbit in the Moon examines issue that ultimately created deep rifts within the community, reveals the racist subtext of the loyalty questionnaire and exposes the absurdity of the military draft within the camps. These testimonies are linked by the filmmakers' own experiences in the camps and placed in a larger historical context by the voice of the director, Emiko Omori.

Rapid Fire
Director: Dwight H. Little; 95 minutes, Color, 1992, DVD
In this explosive martial arts action adventure, college student Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin (Nick Mancuso).  When the witness protection program fails him, Lo has to protect himself with his only weapons – his hands.  Determined to survive, he takes on Chicago’s warring drug lords with the assistance of a renegade cop (Powers Boothe) and his beautiful partner (Kate Hodge).

Regret to Inform
Producer/Director: Barbara Sonneborn; 1998, 72 minutes, Documentary
Ten years in the making, what initially began as a letter from the filmmaker to her late husband evolved into an Oscar-nominated film and a powerful statement on the personal toll of war. Twenty years after her husband Jeff was killed in the Vietnam War, director Barbara Sonneborn embarks on a journey through a country whose mesmerizing landscape is still filled with the psychic remnants of war. Interwoven with the record of her personal odyssey are remarkably honest interviews with widows from both sides of the conflict. Accompanying Sonneborn is Xuan Ngoc Evans, a South Vietnamese widow and refugee to the US, who further illuminates a world collapsed by war.

Remembering Amy Ling
UW- Madison Association of Asian American Graduate Students; November 5th, 1999

Return Home
Producer: National Film Board of Canada; 30 minutes, Documentary
First- generation Chinese Canadian film maker Michelle Wong returns to her birth place, St. Paul Alberta, to get reacquainted with her aging grandparents. Her visit becomes an emotional journey into the past and into herself as she documents their stories and lives.

Sally's Beauty Spot
Director: Helen Lee; 12 minutes, 1990
Synopsis

Sayonara
Director: Joshua Logan; 1957, 147 minutes, color, DVD
Brando’s brilliantly conceived, Oscar-nominated lead performance provides the dramatic heart of Sayonara, a poignant outcry against bigotry that received 10 Academy Award nominations and garnered four Oscars.  James Garner, Red Buttons and the lovely Miyoshi Umeki co-star in this poignant and powerful film hailed as “an enchanting love story.  One of the year’s top ranking motion pictures: (Los Angeles Mirror-News).
Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, staunchly supports the military’s opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women.  But that’s before Gruver experiences a love that challenges his own deeply set prejudices… and plunges him into conflict with the U.S. Air Force and Japan’s own cultural taboos.

Sea in the Blood
Director: Richard Fung; 2000, 26 minutes, Documentary
Essayist and filmmaker Richard Fung has created a lyrical and touching personal documentary on living close to illness. Using old home movie footage from the fifties shot in Trinidad , England , and Canada , he traces his family’s encounter with thalassemia (“sea in the blood” in Greek), a blood disease considered rare in Asians at the time. “Sea in the Blood” seamlessly meshes this with a trip Fung takes in 1977 from Europe to India during which he meets his partner, Tim. The death of his sister, Nan , from thalassemia occurs while he is away. The filmmaker examines his feelings about this loss and places it within the context of his partner Tim’s life with HIV/AIDS. 

Searching for Asian America
Producers: Sapana Sakya, Donald Young, Kyung Yu; 90 minutes, 2003
Synopsis

Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
15 Director/Producor: Mei-Juin Chen and Martha Burr; 53 minutes, 2003, Documentary
The famous fighting monks of China's Shaolin Temple have seen a resurgence throughout the world aided in part by the popularity of kungfu movies among the hip-hop set and films like The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This documentary follows a handful of Shaolin monks who have brought kungfu and Zen Buddhism to America, chronicling their adventures in New York City, Houston, and Las Vegas. Coming from a small Chinese village, they cross the vast divide between East and West. Their quietly heroic stories reflect a unique version of the American Dream, Shaolin style. Will they change America? Or will America change Shaolin?  

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"Reflecting on Mao’s famous saying, “Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s film—whose title refers in part to a Chinese guessing game—is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China . The film ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, as refracted by Tiananmen Square events. It offers at the same time an inquiry into the creative process of filmmaking, intricately layering Chinese popular songs and classical music, the sayings of Mao and Confucius, women’s voices and the words of artists, philosophers and other cultural workers. Exploring color, rhythm and the changing relationship between ear and eye, this meditative documentary realizes on screen the shifts of interpretation in contemporary Chinese culture and politics."

Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women
Director/Producer/Writer: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson; 1999, 57 minutes, Documentary A powerful and emotional documentary by film about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. Silence Broken dramatically combines the testimony of former comfort women who demand justice for the "crimes against humanity” committed against them, along with contravening interviews of Japanese soldiers, recruiters, and contemporary scholars who deny the existence of comfort women or claim that these victims "did this for money." The film clearly details that what comfort women want today is not financial compensation, but a measure of personal honor and vindication in the form of an official apology from Japan.
Silence Broken seeks to shatter the half-century of silence regarding these forgotten victims of war. The individual testimonies in the film, combined with rare archival footage and dramatized images, create a collective story which embodies the spirit and fortitude of all comfort women.

Silent Sacrifices: Voices of Filipino American Family
Director/Producer: Patricia Heras; 25 min, 2001, Documentary
An insightful study of Filipino American family dynamics and psychologies, Silent Sacrifices delves into the cultural conflicts Filipino immigrants and their American-born children encounter on a daily basis.  Frank discussions between teens, young adults and their parents reveal how issues of ethnic identity and opposing Filipino and American values contribute to youths' bouts with depression, prenting difficulties and intergenerational misunderstandings.

Intent on breaking the silence that allows dysfunctions to develop, Silent Sacrifices and its accompanying educational guide offer an invaluable starting point for enhancing family communication within one of the country's fastest growing demographics. 

Slightseer
Director: Midi Onodera; 3 minutes, 2001, Short Film
A memoir of blindness and racial insight, Slightseer is visually stunning and imaginative.

"A Slice of Rice, Frijoles & Greens," "A Grain of Sand," and "To All Relations"
Excerpts from Great Leap, 8 min
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Something Strong Within is a video production that was created for the exhibition "America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience," featuring never-before-seen home movies of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Super-Hairo, short film
By: Peter Wang

Super-Hairo, short film
By: Peter Wang

There Is No Name For This
Directors: Ming-Yuen S. Ma & Cianna Pamintuan Stewart; 49 minutes, 1997, Documentary
How can you tell someone that you are lesbian, gay, or bisexual when you don't have the words? What happens to your family when you come out? Is it necessary to talk about these private issues in public? What does it mean for Chinese and Chinese Americans to accept gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in their communities? Community- wide discussion was sparked when the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance and Asian Pacific Sisters marched in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Parade. This film incorporates this event and over two dozen interviews to examine the private and public repercussions as Chinese and Chinese American lesbians, gays, and bisexuals to come out across cultural and language barriers.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
  Producer/Director: Wayne Wang; 83 minutes, 2007, DVD
A woman in her early 40s moves from China to America to start a new life. Her father comes to visit her because of her recent divorce. Their social and generational conflicts end up revealing the darker lies and cover ups within her family during the Cultural Revolution.

Too Much Air to Breathe
20 minutes
The rise of Communist power in Laos in 1975 resulted in a Lao migration from the country. 5,000 Laotians resettled in Washington D.C.  This film focuses on the Temple Wat Lao Buddhavang, a Buddhist temple 50 miles west of Washington D.C. in rural Fauquier County Virginia . The temple is the basis of community for the Laotian immigrants, providing a sense of “home,” friends to socialize with, and familiar traditions, as well as opportunities to teach the younger generation about Lao culture. The temple is a welcome respite from life in America , a land that is “too big,” and where there is “too much air to breathe.”

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Uptown/ Downtown
Producer: Jimmy Hung; Director/Scriptwriter: Hung Kwong Yin Brian, Ka Ho Yue; 15 minutes, 2005, DVD

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Wendy Law-Yone
In Class Visit, 75 min, March 18th, 1993

Wet Sand
Director: Producer/Director: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson; 59 minutes, 2003

When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in the late 1970s, many Afghans fled leaving behind homes, possessions, and sometimes family members. Many settled in Fremon, CA, which became the center of a community of 15,000 exiled Afghans. After September 11th, these Afghan-Americans found themselves caught in a cultural crossfire as their adoptive homeland was at war with their native land.

William Ouchi
April 10th, 1996; UW-Madison School of Business

What’s Wrong with Frank Chin?
Producer: Nicole Newham; 13 minutes, 1993
The ayatollah of modern Asian Americanism takes on all comers in this docu-comedy that examines 30 years of controversy and verbal mayhem (http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2692546585/)

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UW-Madison Asian American Studies Program

Xiao-Lei Wang Colloquium
March 4, 1993
Synopsis

Yellow
Writer/Director: Chris Chan Lee; Producers: Chris Chan Lee, David Yang, Rita Yoon; 1996, 90 minutes, Drama
Sin Lee is a Korean American teenager who gets robbed while working alone at his dad's grocery store. Already feeling pressure to prove the worth of his general existence, he is unable to face his father about the loss. His buddies rally together and scheme to recover the money before sunrise. Cast: Michael Chung, Burt Bulos, John Cho, Jason Tobin, Angie Suh, Mia Suh, Mary Hen, Lela Lee, Soon-tek Oh, Emily Kuroda, Amy Hill.

Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice
Director/Producer: Rea Tajiri & Pat Saunders; 1993, 57 minutes, Documentary
For over forty years, the work of this tireless political activist has touched thousands of lives in diverse communities across the United States. Yuri Kochiyama's story begins with her internment as a young woman during World War II. She has been involved with worldwide nuclear disarmament, the Japanese American Redress and Reparations Movement and the International Political Prisoner Rights Movement. A follower and friend of Malcolm X and a supporter of Black Liberation, Mrs. Kochiyama was at the Audubon Ballroom when he was assassinated.

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 DVD Library

Asian American Studies Program Events on DVD Library

1000 Pieces of Gold (Part 1)

2006 Asian American Shorts

Afterbirth [34 min] (2 copies)

American Fusion [94 min]

American Pastime[106 min]

American Sons [41 min]

AMV [Director: Shanoli Bore, 103 min]

Anatomy of a Spring Roll [56 min]

Ancestors in America: Chinese in Frontier West (2 copies)

Animal Appetite [20 min]

Art to Art: Expressions by Asian American Women [26 min]

Asian Stories Book 3 [97 min] (3 copies)

The Basement Girl [12 min]

BBQ Muslims and Death Threat [24 min]

Being Hmong Means Being Free [60 min]

Between Two Worlds – Hmong Shamans in America [32 min] (2 copies)

The Bhangra Wrap [20 min]

Black Hair and Black Eyed [9 min]

Blue Collar and Buddha [57 min]

Bontoc Eulogy [60 min]

Breaking the Silence [22 min]

Broken Blossoms  [90 min] 

Broken Journey [Director: Sand Ip Ray, 83 min]

Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey

Bruce Lee Meets Snoop Doggy Dog Featuring Tou Ger Xiong [55 min]

Bui Doi: Life Like Dust [28 min]

Butoh: Body On The Edge Of Crisis (2 Disc)

Cambodian Donut Dreams [27 min]

Chan is Missing

The Children We Sacrifice [61 min]

China Dolls [91 min]

Chinatown [50 min]

The Chinatown Files [57 min] (2 Copies)

Chinese Beauty

The Color of Honor [90 min]

Coming Out, Coming Home [44 min]

Crossing Chasms [90 min]

Dancing Through Death: The Monkey, Magic and Madness of Cambodia [56 min]

Daughter From Danang [83 min]

Dirty Laundry [30 min]

Displaced In The New South [56 min]

The Displaced View [52 min]

Do 2 Halves Really Make A Whole? [30 min]

Dragon Boys Part 1 [90 min]

Dragon Boys Part 2 [90 min]

Eagle Against The Sky [27 min]

Fact of Asian Women [27 min]

Fall of the I Hotel [57 min]

A Family Gathering Point of View: Days of Waiting [60 min]

Fated to be Queer [25 min]

First Person Plural [60 min]

Fool’s Dance

Forbidden City, USA [56 min] (2 Copies)

Foreign Talk [11 min]

Asian CineVIsion: For Youth By Youth (3 copies)

The Global Assembly Line [59 min]

The Grace Lee Project [68 min] (3 copies)

Great Girl [14 min]

The Guyver [Director: Steve Wang] (2 parts)

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle [88 min]

History and Memory – Japanese Internment [32 min] (2 copies)

Hmong Means Free Profile of Tou Ger Xiong

Hmong Tapestry: Voices from the Cloth

Hmong Youth in Transition [30 min]

Hmong Lub Neej Tshiab Nyob Ameliskas [Hmong Version 35 min, English Version 40 min]

Hollywood Chinese [Director: Arthur Dong]

Homes Apart: Korea [55 min] (2 copies)

Honor Bound [55 min]

I’m on a Mission from Buddha [60 min] {2 copies)

I’m the One I Want – Margaret Cho [96 min]

Iron Lotus

ACV It’s in the Blood (2 copies)

Japanese American Women [27 min]

The Jew in the Lotus

Journey from the Fall

Just Stand Still [20 min]

Kelly Loves Tony [55 min]

Knowing Her Place [40 min]  (2 copies)

Letter Back Home

The Love Thang Trilogy [12 min]

Man Push Cart

Mardi Gras

Maxine Hong Kingston – Talking Story

Maya Lin – A Strong Clear Vision [98 min] (2 copies)

Mai’s America [72 min]

Mighty Warriors of Comedy [56 min]

Miss India Georgia [56 min] (2 copies)

Mississippi Triangle [80 min] (2 copies)

Mitsuye and Nellie [58 min]

Mixed Blood [20 min]

Monkey Dance [65 min] (2 copies)

Monterey’s Boat People [29 min]

The Motel (2 copies)

My America – Or Hmong if You Love Buddha [87 min]

My Brown Eyes [18 min]

My Own Country [100 min]

Na Kamalei: Men of Hula (3 copies)

The New Puritans: Sikhs of Yuba City [27 min]

New Year Baby [75 min]

Never Perfect [65 min]

Nobuko in a Grain of Sand [15 min] (2 copies)

None of the Above [30 min]

No Place Like Home

No Place of Our own

No Sleep Till Shanghai (2 copies)

Not a Simple Story/ Out of Silence [37 min]

Not Black or White [19 min]

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights [60 min]

Oh, Saigon [58 min] (2 copies)

On the Sixth Day [71 min] (2 copies)

Perpetual Emotion 101 [66 min]

Perpetual Emotion 102 [ 62 min]

ACV: Pretty

The Price You Pay [29 min]

Punching at the Sun [83 min] (2 copies)

Queen from Virginia [90 min] (2 copies)

Rabbit in the Moon [85 min]

Racism at UW-Madison [34 min]

Red Doors

Regret to Inform [72 min]

Remembering Wei Yi-fang [29 min]

Return Home [30 min]

Roots in the Sand [57 min]

Sa-i-Gu [37 min]

Sally’s Beauty Spot [12 min]

Sambal Belacan in San Francisco [25 min]

Sea in the Blood [26 min]

Searching for Asian America [90 min]

Sentenced Home

Sewing Woman [14 min]

Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America [53 min]

ACV: Shock Jock Screener (3 copies)

Shoot for the Contents [101 min]

Silence Broken – Korean Comfort Women [57 min]

Silent Sacrifices: Voices of the Filipino American Family

The Slanted Screen [16 min]

Slaying the Dragon [60 min]

A Slice of Rice, Frijoles, and Greens [8 min]

Slightseer [3 min]

Slowly This [26 min]

Small Pleasures [86 min] (2 copies)

Something Strong Within [40 min]

The Soul Investigator [82 min]

Still Life (3 copies)

Story of Rev. Hung – Find a need and Fill it [28 min]

Story of Vinh [60 min]

Super Power Blues [7 min] (2 copies)

Talking Story [65 min]

Ten Cents a Dance [30 min]

There and Now [10 min]

There is No Name for This [49 min]

To Tie a Yellow Ribbon [86 min] (3 copies)

Twilight: Los Angeles [90 min]

Unbidden Voices [32 min]

Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties [86 min]

Unforgettable Face [13 min]

Unwanted Soldier [48 min]

Voices Heard Sisters Unseen [26 min]

Voices of Sorrow

Wet Sand [59 min]

With Us or Against Us [27 min]

Who Killed Vincent Chin? [90 min] (2 copies)

Why is Preparing Fish a Political Act? [20 min]

Woman Who Made Swell Doughnuts [8 min]

Xiao-Lei Wang Colloquium

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DVD EVENTS LIBRARY

Re-searching Asian American Symposium
Re-searching Asian American Symposium (10-24-98)

Re-searching Asian American Symposium (10-23-98)

Re-searching Asian American Studies Symposium (10-23-99)

Re-searching Asian American Studies Symposium (10-24-99)

Asian American Voices
Asian American Voices 2009 Keynote Speaker Sumi Cho 05-01-09 [2-Disc]

Asian American Voices 2009 Academic Symposium Panel 05-01-09 [2-Disc]

2009 Asian American Voices Compressed Audio Files

2009 Asian American Voices – Welcome and Introduction

2009 Asian American Voices “Ono – Making Memories”

2009 Asian American Voices “Creef - Interning Gender in War Internment”

2009 Asian American Voices “Cho – Keynote Speaker”

2009 Asian American Voices – Dinner Scene

Critical Perspectives in Hmong American Experiences and Scholarship (CPHAES) Speaker Series

Year 1
Chia YouYee Vang: “Researching Hmong from the Inside” [October 3, 2008]

Mai Na Lee: “Flintlock Rifles, Rhinoceros Horn, and Opium: How Hmong Men Became Powerful in Colonial Indochina” [November 3, 2008]

Kabzuag Vaj: “Contemporary Issues Facing Hmong Women in Wisconsin” [November 21, 2008]

Her Vang: “Longing for Home: Hmong Diasporic Politics in America After the Secret War” [December 12, 2008]

Zha Blong Xiong: “Hmong Youth Delinquency in Minnesota: What Do We Know?” [January 23, 2008] (2 Disc)

Louisa Schein & Va Megn Thoj: “Race, Violence and Hmong Hunting Incidents" and "Media and Hmong Masculinity: From Immigrant Misfits to Perpetual Warriors to Gran Torino Gangbangers” [February 13, 2009]

Yang Xiong: “Converting Faith, Converting Relations in Hmong American Communities” [March 27, 2009]

Linda Gerdner: “Perception and Care of Elder Hmong Americans With Chronic Confusion and End-of-Life Care” [March or April 6, 2009] (2 Disc)

Mai Neng Moua: “The Hmong American Writer as Creator” [April 17, 2009]

Year 2
Yer Vang: “Is it in Defense of Hmong Culture?  The Use of Culture in Legal Cases” [October 15, 2010]

Yang Lor: “Hmong Political Involvement in St. Paul, Minnesota and Fresno, California” [October 29, 2010]

Leena Her: “Explaining Academic Failure in the United States and Laos: Interpreting the Voices of Hmong American and Hmong Lao Students” [December 3, 2010]

Peng Her: “Negotiating Hmong Cultural Differences and Race Relations in Madison: A social Science Experiment” [January 21, 2011]

Pa Der Vang: “The Impact of Teenage Marriage on the Socioeconomic Status of Hmong Women in the United States” [February 25, 2011]

Ava Yang: “Themes in Career Development of 1.5 Generation Hmong American Women” [April 8, 2011]

Jeremy Hein: “Asian American Panethnicity in St. Paul’s Hmong American Community: A Discourse Event Analysis” [April 29, 2011]

Other
David Wong Louie – “Pangs of Love” [2-Disc]

Kao Kalia Yang – Hmong American Experience: A Study of Oneself and One’s People in Prose [November 3, 2009]

John Duffy – Reaches of Literacy: Hmong Americans Reading and Writing [April 19, 2010]

Who’s Afraid of Ethnic Studies Teach-in [October 7, 2010]

Hmong Studies Panel [November 21, 2011]

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