Building Community Within Diversity
By Diana Cheng AAP Arts and Film Writer The inaugural Seattle Taiwanese American Film Festival (STAFF) will take place June 29 to July 1. Sponsored by the Taiwanese American Professionals[…]
SIFF Capsule Review By Diana Cheng Are comedic effects universal across cultures? And if you laugh, is it for the same reason as that of viewers from another country? “Girls[…]
SIFF Capsule Review by Diana Cheng Alexandra Shiva’s documentary focuses on four families among the 372 Syrian refugees in Baltimore. Escaped from their war-torn country, once they set foot on[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film review Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters” just won the prestigious award the Palme d’Or at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 19. Kore-eda[…]
By Diana Cheng SIFF Review Writer-director Sadaf Foroughi’s “Ava” is an engrossing story about a teenager’s coming-of-age experience in Iran. Bound by the ultra-conservative social norms and pressured by a[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film review SIFF Review — The transformation that China has gone through in the first decade of the new millennium has been extraordinary. While the urban landscape[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film review (SIFF Capsule Review) Fifty years earlier the Cultural Revolution uprooted China. Now the floodgate of a new cultural revolution is bashed open. Hao Wu’s[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film writer Features from over twenty Asian countries are represented in the upcoming Seattle International Film Festival from May 17 to June 10, 2018. Three of[…]
MSPIFF Review By Diana Cheng How do two Chinese high school students from affluent and protective families in Shanghai and Guangzhou adjust to small town America as they pursue, or[…]
MSPIFF Film Review By Diana Cheng In a seaside motel, two school girls are sexually assaulted. The culprit is a man of power. His forceful entry into the girls’ room[…]
