Asian American Media Arts

New and Exciting!

Check out the brand new site for streaming video featuring Asian American programming: Aiyaa! Media

Greg ("Fighting Grandpa") Pak has set up a new website devoted to promoting Asian American Film. Greg is also one of the founders of The Workshop which also has a great site.

Indexes and Databases

• Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Center - Database of 16mm and Video Distributors for Canadian Filmmakers
• ITVS - the Independent Television Service website features information on many films and videos that aired on PBS, including links to their commercial distributors.

Distributors and Media Arts Organizations

• Asian CineVision (ACV)
• The Cinema Guild
• Electronic Arts Intermix
• Filmakers Library
• Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) - formerly Fortune4
• First Run / Icarus Films - documentaries on Asian subjects
• Margin Films
• National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
• Strand Releasing - queer-themed films and videos (includes works by Gregg Araki, Shu Lee Cheang & Jessica Hagedorn, and Jon Moritsugu)
• Third World Newsreel
• South Asian Women's Cinema (SAWNET Cinema)
• Video Data Bank
• Visual Communications (VC)
• Women Make Movies

Film and Arts Festivals

• Arkipelago Sa Pinilakang Tabing '99 (Call for entries)
• Chicago Asian American Showcase
• Chingari Forum - UW-Madison's South Asian Video Festival
• D.C. Asian Pacific Film Festival
• Diasporadics (New York) South Asian American Arts & Activism
• Los Angeles Asian Pacfic Film & Video Festival
• New York Asian American International Film Festival
• San Diego Asian Film Festival
• Seattle Asian American Film Festival
• San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
• Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

Artists' Organizations

• The Workshop
• Asian American Arts Alliance
• Godzilla - The Asian American Art Network

Organizations

• Asian American Arts Foundation
• University Film & Video Association

Film/Videomakers' Websites

• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive at the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
• Arthur Dong's Deep Focus Productions
• Kip Fulbeck / Seaweed Productions
• Amy Hill's Delicious Web Site
• Keiko Ibi
• Lela Lee's Angry Little Asian Girl
• Ming-Yuen S. Ma
• Greg Pak
• Valerie Soe
• Trinh T. Minh-ha
• Donna Tsufura / Wise Fool Productions

Filmmaker Contact Info (see also websites)

• Jay Koh (fax 815-377-2237) for "My Brown Eyes" and "True"

Feature Films

• Francisco Aliwalas's Disoriented
• Gregg Araki's Nowhere
• Gene Cajayon's The Debut
• Loc Do's Bastards
• C.H. Gao's Blue Fire
• Kayo Hatta's Picture Bride
• VV Dachin Hsu's My American Vacation
• Chris Chan Lee's Yellow
• Quentin Lee and Justin Lin's Shopping for Fangs
• Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow
• Chi Muoi Lo's Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
• Piyush Dinker Pandya's American Desi formerly "American Born Confused Desi," not to be confused with Krutin Patel's "ABCD"
• Harish Saluja's The Journey
• Mina Shum's Double Happiness
• Rea Tajiri's Strawberry Fields

Documentaries

• Satsuki Ina and Stephen Holsapple's Children of the Camps
• Felicia Lowe's Chinatown
• Emiko Omori's Rabbit in the Moon
• Renee Tajima-Peña's My America (...or honk if you love Budhha)

Other Web Resources

• Filipino Arts
• Vietspace's Film Page - Links to Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Films and Filmmakers
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival - Includes online text of the journal DOCUMENTARY BOX and a searchable database of international documentary films

Online Articles

• Anton, Saul. "A Search for Roots and Identity: An Interview with Tiana Thi Thanh Nga." Cineaste 20:3 (Summer 1993): 46. [preceded by Gita Reddy's review of From Hollywood to Hanoi]
• Feng, Peter. "In Search of Asian American Cinema." Cineaste 21:1-2 (Winter-Spring 1995): 32-6.
• Feng, Peter. "Redefining Asian American Masculinity: Steven Okazaki's 'American Sons.'" Cineaste 22:3 (Summer 1996): 27-29.
• Ito, Robert B. "A Certain Slant: A Brief History of Hollywood Yellowface." Bright Lights Film Journal 18 (March 1997).
• Lee, Helen. "A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema." Cineaste 23:1 (Winter 1997): 36-38.
• Nga, Thi Thanh. "The Long March from Wong to Woo: Asians in Hollywood." Cineaste 21:4 (Fall 1995): 38-40.

MANAA - The Media Action Network for Asian Americans

APAC - The Asian/Pacific/American Caucus of the Society for Cinema Studies

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This page is maintained by Peter X Feng, last updated 4 August 2002. Please e-mail me with updates, suggestions, corrections, etc.