{"id":1863,"date":"2017-02-15T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:06:23","slug":"southeast-asian-films-highlight-diversity-years-seattle-asian-american-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/news\/southeast-asian-films-highlight-diversity-years-seattle-asian-american-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asian films highlight diversity in this year’s Seattle Asian American Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are featuring an article by our MA student Adrian Alarilla to get you excited about the upcoming Seattle Asian American Film Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n

Growing up in the Philippines, I consumed a lot of local media that oftentimes featured people who looked like me, a fact I took for granted until I migrated to the United States. Only then did I realize that Hollywood has a dearth of Asian American representation. In fact, according to a New York Times<\/em> article<\/a> by Amanda Hess, \u201cThough Asian Americans make up 5.4 percent of the United States population, only 1.4 percent of lead characters in a sample of studio films released in 2014 were Asian.\u201d Due to this, many immigrant kids grew up without film characters that looked like them and that they could look up to.<\/p>\n

In an effort to counteract this #OscarsSoWhite controversy, the Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF) is the only film festival in Seattle to provide a space for Asian American voices, perspectives and histories by screening independent films that reflect the diversity and richness of the city\u2019s Asian American community. This year, SAAFF is going strong and celebrating its five year anniversary.<\/p>\n

Some of the films in this year\u2019s lineup are made by and are about Southeast Asian and Diasporic Southeast Asian subjects. There is \u201cNever Forget<\/a>,\u201d a visually stunning and heartwarming story of a young nurse who must travel back to her homeland in Southern Vietnam to attend her family\u2019s funeral. In \u201cN\u01b0\u1edbc<\/a>\u201d (Water\/Homeland), a queer Vietnamese American teen attempts to piece together and understand their mom’s experience as a Vietnam War refugee. In \u201cPainted Nails<\/a>,\u201d we witness the American dream crumble when Van, a Vietnamese nail salon worker, discovers her health problems, including two miscarriages, are the result of toxic chemicals in the products used in her salon. In \u201cMeh\u2019s Tammakhoung<\/a>,\u201d a young Lao-Cambodian man grows closer to his grandma through her Tammakhoung (papaya salad) recipe. Toronto-based musical group Datu\u2019s music video for their song \u201cBones<\/a>\u201d plays with Filipino superstition, mythology, and ritual, clashing indigenous kulintang beats with North-American swagger. And in our opening Night film \u201cA Taste of Home<\/a>,\u201d Singaporean filmmakers Tay and Val explore some of Seattle Chinatown\u2019s historical establishments Chinatown that give them a taste of home even though they\u2019re far away from their homeland.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are many more films that you can check out as well. Come celebrate the diversity of Asian American with SAAFF, which takes place at SIFF Cinema
\nEgyptian on February 23, 2017<\/span><\/span> and the Northwest Film Forum from February 24 \u2013 26, 2017<\/span><\/span>. For more information, and to buy tickets, check out SAAFF\u2019s website<\/a>. I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we are featuring an article by our MA student Adrian Alarilla to get you excited about the upcoming Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Growing up in the Philippines, I consumed a lot of local media that oftentimes featured people who looked like me, a fact I took for granted until I migrated to<\/p>\n

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