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As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders has increased indiscriminately amidst a system already notorious for its violence against communities of color. This short film series followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers centers the plight against communities of color on our AAPI brothers and sisters, connecting the dots between the silos of oppression and sequestered voices, constructed by white supremacy. This program intends to expand the narrative beyond silence.
Film titles include:
• I Am But I am Not by Daisy Truong – 6 mins
This short film is the pilot, introductory episode for a series that will explore the multifaceted, complex identities of Asian Americans. This episode touches on the intersection of the model minority myth and Black Lives Matter.
• #freemask by Feilin Yang (New School Alumni) – 7 mins
This short documentary by New School Alum Feilin Yang, produced in the early days of the Pandemic, exposes the challenges African Americans and Asian Americans are facing as a result of the false assumptions propagated about the COVID-19 virus.
• Parallel Adele by Adele Pham (New School Alumni) – 16 mins
Two half-Vietnamese documentary filmmakers, both named Adele, both New School alumni, weave a shared narrative of mixed Asian (hapa) experiences through interviews with seven other mixed race interviewees.
• In the Shadow of the Pines by Anne Koizumi – 8 mins
An animated short describing what life is like for a second-generation Asian-Canadian young woman with an immigrant father, and the challenges faced in their relationship.
Presented by Creatively Speaking in collaboration with the Office of Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice and the Institute on Race and Political Economy at The New School. To see the other events in this series, visit the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month hub.
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Michelle Materre
As an Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School, Ms. Materre is also currently the Director of the Media Management Graduate Program. Materre’s professional background spans decades as film producer, writer, arts administrator, distribution/marketing specialist, programmer, consultant, and Caribbean film scholar. In 1992, Materre co-founded KJM3
Entertainment Group which directly managed the distribution of films by filmmakers of African descent including Daughters of the Dust, by Julie Dash, and L’Homme Sur Les Quais by Raoul Peck. The critically acclaimed film series she curates is Creatively Speaking, now in its 25th year.
An Associate Professor at The New School, Ms. Materre is also an exceptional media professional with an accomplished career.
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Daisy Truong is a fifth-year student at Oregon State University (OSU) double majoring in Digital Communication Arts and Photography. She is a 2nd generation Asian American, digital artist, photographer, and first-time filmmaker, born and raised in SE Portland. She currently works at OSU Asian & Pacific Cultural Center (APCC) and is a Co-President of the Asian Pacific American Student Union (APASU). I Am, But I Am Not is a docu-series that focuses on the dialogue surrounding racism against Asians during COVID-19 as well as Anti-Blackness within the Asian community.
Instagram: @dayzphotography_official
Feilin is a journalist, filmmaker, and photographer from China. She is a graduate of the Media Management program at The New School. Having established her sense of social justice and advocacy for a free press in her early journalism experience in China, Feilin is now interested in multimedia storytelling and cross-culture communication.
Instagram: @feilin.yang
Facebook: @feifeixingyang
Website: https://www.feilinyang.com/
Anne Koizumi is an independent filmmaker and media arts educator based in Montreal, Quebec. Her films have screened nationally and internationally at Hot Docs, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Annecy, SFFIM, Slamdance, Norwich Film Festival and the RIDM. Her most recent film, In the Shadow of the Pines, won best short animation at SFFILM and best narrative short at the 2020 Ottawa International Animation Festival. She has taught stop-motion animation workshops at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Hospitals and Community Centres throughout Toronto, and at Quickdraw Animation Society in Calgary, Alberta.
Instagram: @annekoizumi
Ina Adele Ray (aka Adele) is a Vietnamese and American (Scottish-Irish origins) filmmaker who has worked in both the commercial and non-profit film and video production worlds. Adele has produced and directed for over 20 years in several formats included documentary, experimental and narrative film. She is a graduate of the Media Studies MA program at The New School, and has taught at The New School, NYU and Berkeley City College. She is also found of the East Bay Documentary Filmmaker Support Group that supports independent filmmakers since 2013. Adele enjoys working on projects that are dynamic, mission driven and have a unique, creative vision and style.
Instagram: @inaadeleray
Twitter: @I_ARay
Adele Free Pham is an activist and filmmaker, with experience in all aspects of documentary production. Her feature documentary NAILED IT, about the genesis and culture of the Vietnamese nail industry, premiered on PBS in May 2019 and is the highest streamed film of the America Reframed series. Her next feature STATE OF OREGON documents the 2016 murder of Larnell Bruce Jr. by a white supremacist in Gresham, Oregon as a touchstone to the state's founding as a separatist white homeland a century and a half earlier. A short film by the same name was released by Field Of Vision in 2017 and has been viewed over 187k times. “Parallel Adele” was her completed film as a student in The New School’s Documentary Studies Graduate Certificate program.
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/adelepham
Website: http://www.adelepham.com/
As an Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School, Ms. Materre is also currently the Director of the Media Management Graduate Program. Materre’s professional background spans decades as film producer, writer, arts administrator, distribution/marketing specialist, programmer, consultant, and Caribbean film scholar. In 1992, Materre co-founded KJM3 Entertainment Group which directly managed the distribution of films by filmmakers of African descent including Daughters of the Dust, by Julie Dash, and L’Homme Sur Les Quais by Raoul Peck. The critically acclaimed film series she curates is Creatively Speaking, now in its 25th year.
An Assoc. Professor at The New School, Ms. Materre is also an exceptional media professional with an accomplished career.
