Inside the Cutting Room: Conversation & Scenes from sequel When Home is Elsewhere
May 21, 2021. I’m very excited to share scenes from Reunification’s sequel, When Home is Elsewhere (WIP), and to discuss its making with co-producer Siyan Wong. 6/2/21, hosted virtually by Queens Museum.
Sundance Film Festival Panel on Family History Filmmaking
Jan. 23, 2021. I will be speaking at one of this year’s Sundance Film Fest panels on personal doc filmmaking through family archives with Lynne Sachs, Thérèse Heliczer, and Darol Olu Kae. Co-Presented by the Northwest Film Forum, Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF), and Seattle Documentary Association (SeaDoc)!
When Home is Elsewhere Footage in Mekong Delta
Dec. 28, 2020. While going through the footage of Dad and my trip to Vietnam, I found this shot of a Mekong Delta floating market in the beautiful morning light. This is the feeling I’m going for while making When Home Is Elsewhere.
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Floating Boat Market in the Mekong Delta
An immersive shot from the film of the Mekong Delta floating market life in the beautiful morning light. https://www.nyfa.org/fiscal-sponsorship/project-directory/view-project/?id=AT1674
Posted by When Home is Elsewhere on Sunday, December 27, 2020
When Home is Elsewhere (WIP, 2023), a sequel to Reunification
Sept. 18, 2020. I’m very happy to be working on this new sequel, and honored that it is sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and had received a grant from Queens Council on the Arts!
While Reunification (2015) reflects on the circumstances surrounding my family’s immigration from Hong Kong to Los Angeles in the 1980s and my parents’ divorce, When Home Is Elsewhere (WIP, 2023) explores the idea of home, and the anxiety of not having yet “found home.” This more abstract need is explored through my father’s life experiences – a pre-teen orphan, a refugee from Vietnam who escaped to Hong Kong, an immigrant who moved his family to the United States, a divorcee, a father.
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