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Request QuoteKayla Tong (b. 1993) is a cinematographer and director. She was born in colonial Hong Kong, molded by Los Angeles, and briefly called Missouri and Lisbon home in between. After graduating from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2015, her narrative and documentary work have screened in a number of venues such as The New Yorker Documentary Series, Busan International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and LA Shorts Fest. Kayla is a Busan’s Asian Film Academy's cinematography fellow, a Visual Communications’s Armed with a Camera Fellowship directing fellow. Kayla's rootless upbringing and encounters with people from around the world inform the themes of much of her work, telling stories of diaspora and displacement. Cinema is her way of sharing her lifelong study on the human condition by confronting it everyday with a deep curiosity.
Cabinet of Curiosity is a Jewelry brand based in Hong Kong. Founded by Tracy Tong in July 2015, her artful work is inspired by vintage jewelry, miniature, rare gemstones , minerals, and jewelry making craftsmanship.
This hybrid documentary explores the relationship between a Korean-American filmmaker and her immigrant mother. As the filmmaker imagines her mother’s life before motherhood and engages in vulnerable conversations with her mother today, difficult questions of freedom, authorship, and filial responsibility emerge.
Herbert Chow 周小龍, owner of the Hong Kong childrenswear store Chickeeduck, never thought he'd go into politics. But seeing the complacency of fellow businessmen after a year of political unrest, he decided to join the fight for democracy. In his running for the Legislative Council, he's determined to unite Hong Kong families and protect creative freedom for the next generation.
Hong Kong artist-painter duo reflects on how their art responds to social unrest and drives political change.
Vincent Chui, director of indie film distributor Ying E Chi, discusses the way forward for the Hong Kong film industry in the face of the National Security Law.
New Orleans Film Festival / Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival / Opening Night Film of San Diego Asian Film Festival 2019 The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard follows Julie - a young and ambitious second generation Vietnamese American funeral director working in City Heights, known as the refugee neighborhood of San Diego, California. Julie is used to managing funerals every week, but after the unexpected passing of her own father, Julie seeks help from Đồ Thái Uyên, a San Diego legend who has managed funerals (and taxes) for southeast asian families since the 1980s. A brief and intimate glimpse into the ways refugee families mourn the loss of loved ones far from their homelands.
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