Youth Critics Sarah Barzak and Vidhya Elango interview Director Ky Nam and review his film in this podcast.

Through the unheard calls for attention and love from these children, the audience witnesses the adults’ childism.

Throughout these conversations, I’ve been reminded of the importance and empowerment of telling a personal story through film.

They are complicated, full people who are navigating their way through what they know to be unfair structures.

In Conversation with RONG Director Indira Iman

by Khiem Hoang

Youth Critics Aashna Thakkar and Khiem Hoang discuss AKA DON BONUS.

The house is present in almost every moment in the film, observing the events of the film unfold.

The scenes in LABYRINTH OF CINEMA are theatrical productions as much as they are theatres of war.

The six films in this program are about traumas deeply felt, but more so about how we move past these experiences to create radical…

Reparations are not made by pretending to be the victim.

There’s a certain type of art I’ve noticed resonates with a lot of Asians. I’ll call it “parentcore”.

Unlike the movies, I don’t have the opportunity to peek into the past, see what could have been, and return to my normal life.

Every time I make a shift in my life, I fail my parents; they do not verbalize it, but I hear it in their silence.

What does “normal” even mean, anyway?

These genre shifts are not jarring as it never settles on one, floating along with its own unique rhythm like a dream.

Through this, we are fragmented in our attempts to address white supremacist institutional structures as the source of our trauma.