Month: January 2025
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Meloddy Gao premieres thesis film at film festivals
SocDoc alumna Meloddy Gao (’24) premiered her MFA thesis film, SWIMMING LESSONS, this fall at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. Gao also screened her film at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. [Taken from paff.org] SWIMMING LESSONS is a personal, reflexive film that follows a daughter of Chinese immigrants who yearns to understand her…
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John Ortiz at DOC NYC and IDA Documentary Awards
SocDoc alum John Ortiz (’24) recently screened his SocDoc MFA thesis film, JEHRY, at DocNYC in November 2024. JEHRY follows Ortiz as he explores the life and eventual murder of Costa Rican landback activist Jerhy Rivera. Rivera’s murder, which occurred in early 2020, came following a string of violent attacks and murders against indigenous Costa Ricans that…
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Tadashi Nakamura New Film at Sundance
SocDoc alum Tadashi Nakamura (’08)’s new film is premiering his newest film in the 2025 Sundance documentary competition. [Text taken from Sundance.org]: The film, THIRD ACT, tells the story of his father, Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American Media”, his life and career, and the profound influence it had on Tad’s sense of…
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Warren Sack: Interrogative Design
A timely collection that shows how design can animate public space and catalyze democratic processes through vital discussion and public engagement. “Design thinking” emphasizes the production of solutions after a period of research. By contrast, interrogative design focuses on activating the public sphere and enriching public discourse through the production of questions. A notable contribution to the fields…
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Rethinking Socialist Environmental Media Speaker Series: Soyoung Kim
Join us for a talk “Liquid Hauntology: Revisiting Exile Trilogy through the Collective You and Me (Ты и Я)” with Prof. Soyoung Kim (Filmmaker/artist, Professor of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts) Date: Thursday, February 6Time: 3:30pm-5:30pmLocation: Communications Building, Room 139 Organized by: Yiman Wang (Professor, Film and Digital Media), Boreth Ly (Associate Professor,…
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Yiman Wang: To Be An Actress
Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles, yet with her US citizenship scrutinized due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert…