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By Jana Monji, AsAmNews Arts & Culture Writer Those looking for a glimpse of the Asian and Asian American films at Sundance got a good taste during a conversation with Asian filmmakers and actors hosted by the Asian Society of Northern California. Janet Yang, Academy Governor-at-Large and executive producer of The Joy Luck Club film, spoke with writer Amy Tan, actress Miya Cech, director Sushmit Ghosh, director Debbie Lum, actor Leonardo Nam, director Baz Poonpiriya, director Rintu Thomas and director Christopher Yogi. Debbie Lum, director of Try Harder! noted that her documentary on the agony and angst of college admissions, looked at this topic through the lens of parents. That was easy to do now that she’s the mother of three kids. In the background, during the filming the lawsuit against Harvard University was being fought in the courts, giving the general feeling that declaring one was Asian American on one’s college application was a detriment. ....
Nomadland (Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay). Gold House is a nonprofit collective of Asian founders, creative voices and leaders hoping to unify the world’s largest populace–Asians and Pacific Islanders–to enable more authentic multicultural representation. Who are the Gold List voters and and how many are there? They are more secretive than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who number about 90. According to Larisa Jiao, communications fellow at Gold House, the Gold List team has “decided to keep that number internal now.” The inaugural Gold List has ten categories and is voted on by the Gold Open Advisory Council, Gold House Members (the premier nonprofit collective of leading API creatives, executives, and founders), CAPE Board Members and Advisors (the premier API-entertainment nonprofit), and other entertainment leaders. ....
By Jana Monji, AsAmNews Art & Culture Writer During one of my May sojourns, I crossed a changing landscape, going from worrying about traffic jams in Los Angeles to worrying about having enough water in a two-hour traffic jam in Texas to worrying about my car being waterlogged in Arkansas. Cities and signs became scarce. Arkansas was green and it seems as if some front yards ended at the freeway. What a change from Los Angeles where signs are plentiful and wide open spaces scarce. Minari is about a Korean American family who traveled from Los Angeles to settle in Arkansas in pursuit of a better life. The film has garnered awards, beginning with the Dramatic Competition Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival where it premiered. It has elicited tears by audience and cast members. After a special screening in honor of Korean American Day (13 January 2021), producer Sandra Oh led a conversation with writer/director Lee Isaac Chung and cast members during which both Oh an ....