2023 Showcase — Foundation for Asian American Independent Media

Happy AAPI Heritage Month and welcome to The 26th Asian American Showcase!

This year being part of AAPI Heritage Month we looked for films that told our stories and unique history as Asian Americans. Our Opening Night film - BAD AXE is an award winning documentary about a Cambodian family's struggles to keep their restaurant open during the pandemic in rural “Trump country” Michigan. Films like WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? and BLURRING THE COLOR LINE looks back at where we were during the “Jim Crow” era of segregation and the start of the fall of the American automotive industry and how those eras led to alot is the misunderstands in racial bias that exists today. NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV highlights the life and work of the father of video art and he who coined the phrase “the electronic superhighway” long before the internet existed. WISDOM GONE WILD takes a look at dementia as the filmmaker acts as the caregiver of her mother whose stories and dreams weave tales of fact and fiction. Spending time in internment camp her mothers nine decades of stories (and song!) are tenderly and humorously reflected upon. Read Full Statement Here