Representation and Film with Reel Asian Film Festival - a podcast by Evy & Jas

Almost 40 years after the murder of Vincent Chin — a Chinese-American in the budding auto-industry in Detroit, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a rise in hate-motivated attacks against Asian people across North America. “Who killed Vincent Chin” is a 1987 documentary that Reel Asian Film Festival will be screening (for free) May 26 and 27 to bring up uncomfortable realities, a history of Asian activism as #API month comes to a close. We spoke with Aram Collier, the head of programming at Reel Asian to discuss the role of representation and storytelling in film that share Asian disaporic stories. Also info on what Reel Asian does for budding storytellers.

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