SHORTS: HOME IN AMERICA
When:
Sunday, Oct 25, 2015 1:00p -
2:30p
Sunday, Oct 25, 2015 1:00p -
2:30p
Where:
Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center
559 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
Admission:
$10.00 for regular tickets, $5.00 for students and children (in person at box office with a valid ID), $7.50 for seniors in person at box office with a valid ID
Categories:
Art, Festivals & Fairs, Film
Event website:
http://www.baaff.org/festival.html
SHORTS:
HOME IN AMERICA
6 films | 82 mins
Followed by Q&A with Director Max Esposito and Producers Saade Barber and Jonathan Wong (El Chino), Directors Lucy Craft and Kathryn Tolbert (Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight)
Closeness (dir. Thuan Hien)
Leadway (dir. Robbie Fisher and Dudley Percy Owen)
Giap's Last Day at the Ironing Board Factory
(dir. Tony Nguyen)
Finding Cleveland (dir. Larissa Lam)
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides (dir. Lucy Craft, Kathryn Tolbert, and Karen Kasmauski)
El Chino (dir. Max Esposito)
These short documentaries depict the courage and determination of Asians who have struggled to build their HOME IN AMERICA. From three Japanese women marrying American servicemen after WWII and raising their families in a foreign culture; to a second generation Chinese American facing tragedy in her rural Mississippi town; to a young man who forgoes his family’s Chinatown store to run his own surfboard business in Boston. HOME IN AMERICA boldly deals with questions of assimilation and identity, of overcoming obstacles and not giving up.
