Building Community Within Diversity
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer Chicago born writer-director Minhal Baig’s character study of an immigrant teenager named Hala is an intimate coming-of-age story of a girl struggling to[…]
By Diana ChengAAP Film & Arts Writer South Korean director Bong Joon-ho can make social statements in the most unconventional ways, like through the friendship between a child and a[…]
By Hoo Sook HwangAAP Theater Review ST. PAUL, Minn. (July 28, 2019) — Five, Six, Seven, Eight . . . “42nd Street” at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts is[…]
By Diana ChengAAP film review “I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – W. B. Yeats These two lines from Yeats’s[…]
By Diana ChengAAP Film and Arts Writer Israeli director Michal Aviad’s “Working Woman” is a good reminder that even though the momentum of the #MeToo Movement might seem to have[…]
By Diana ChengAAP Film and Arts Writer This is not your ordinary foodie flick, as it touches on a subject that is not likely to be found in a culinary[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film and arts writer TORONTO (Oct. 1, 2018) — After all the ultra-colorful spectacles in many of Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s films in recent years, it[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP film and arts writer CALGARY — (Sept. 28, 2018) — Lebanese actor/director Nadine Labaki’s affective rendering of 12-year-old Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) on the streets of Beirut[…]
By Diana Cheng AAP Film and Arts Writer TORONTO (Sept. 19, 2018) — Throughout his oeuvre over the past decade, prolific Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has been asking the question “What[…]
By Hoo Sook Hwang AAP Theatre Writer MINNEAPOLIS (Sept. 17, 2018) — Recently, I was the lucky recipient of an unbelievable, “Golden opportunity!” I was one of a few fortunate ticket[…]
