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Oklahoman May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, and this year, it comes at a time when those communities are seeing historic strides in popular culture even as violence and racism persist. This comes even as the entertainment industry is offering greater exposure to Asian and Asian American filmmakers, actors and stories. At this year s Academy Awards, Youn Yuh-jung, the scene-stealing co-star of the Oklahoma-made movie Minari, made history as the first Korean performer to earn an Oscar, as did Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao, who became the first woman of color to win best director for her drama Nomadland. ....
Oklahoman For more than a century, cinema has been a favored American way to tell stories of different peoples and cultures. But the mainstream movie industry hasn t always treated Native American stories fairly or authentically. If you look at Native representation in history, it s been pretty bad. So, almost showing any truthful, real version of Native people is humanizing. . I think anytime we show Native people kind of on their terms and in their environments, we re humanizing (them) on the screen and we re changing the narrative that history has kind of laid on us history and Hollywood, said Sterlin Harjo, a Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) filmmaker, native Oklahoman and film festival favorite, in a 2020 interview. ....