A Documentary Film About a Chinese Family's Roots in Mississippi
After a mostly virtual film festival run, Far East Deep South, was finally shown again on the big screen in front of a live, masked audience at the Phoenix Film Festival. It was held at the Harkins Theater in Scottsdale, AZ. Producer Baldwin Chiu and Editor Dwight Buhler attended the festival and participated in filmmaker Q&A and panels. Thank you to everyone who came out to see our film!
17th Annual HAAPIFEST
We’re honored to be part of the Houston Asian American Pacific Islander film festival aka HAAPIFest taking place virtually June 3-13. Our film will screen Saturday, June 5th at 6pm Central Time and our film screening block will open with two wonderful short films “Let’s Eat” and “Golden Boy”. Baldwin Chiu and Larissa Lam will also do a live Q&A session after the film.
Details: $5 per film block; $35 all-access pass; tickets can be reserved on Eventbrite throughΒ www.haapifest.com. Use promo code HAAPI50 to get 50% off.
You have to enter the code BEFORE checkout. At the top of the menu, there is a link that says “ENTER PROMOΒ CODE”. Click on the link, enter the code, and hit ‘Apply’.
Our director, Larissa Lam, was asked by the L.A. Times to write a special Op-Ed in looking at the history in our film providing lessons we can learn today about community relationships. Read the article here.
βNearly a century ago, bonds of community were formed among African Americans and Chinese immigrants. We can remember those bonds So we can improve the world we live in todayβ Well done @larissalam! #communitybuilding https://t.co/soegS5Gbsx
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"Many of us donβt feel a connection to our neighbors, especially those who donβt share our heritage. But the truth is that our histories in this country are more interconnected than we realize. It just hasnβt always been shown in our history books." ~@larissalam https://t.co/U62UTpGWKj
March 26th is a day to #StandWithAsians and raise awareness about rising racism against the Asian American Pacific Islander communities. On Friday, March 26th at 10:30am Pacific/12:30 pm Central, join us for a virtual conversation with filmmakers of the award-winning documentaryΒ Far East Deep South, Larissa Lam and Baldwin Chiu presented by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR. Responding to the violence witnessed across the country against Asian and Pacific Islander communities, Lam and Chiu will join us for a conversation prior to the April 8 screening of their film, which addresses the history of Asian immigration to the states and continued discrimination against AAPI communities. The panel will be moderated by Er-Gene Kahng, violinist and professor at University of Arkansas.
Click button below for more info and register free to join:
It’s an honor for Far East Deep South to receive the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2021 Seattle Asian American Film Festival. There were so many great films featured at this year’s virtual edition of the festival and we were glad to also be selected as their Centerpiece Documentary. We thank the jury members and the festival organizers for recognizing our film.
Far East Deep SouthΒ is now available to watch via university and higher learning access throughΒ Kanopy*. Kanopy is a widely used film streaming platform for universities. Here’s the link to our Kanopy page:
Use your university login to start watching. If the film is not available or you cannot get access to it, thereβs a form on the page where they can request it and Kanopy will contact the librarian to see if they can add it. If your university does not have Kanopy, they can license the film throughΒ New Day Films.
*Currently, our film is not available through Kanopy at public libraries, only higher learning institutions.
We are excited to announce that Far East Deep South is now available for educational licensing through New Day Films. Universities, libraries, schools and more will now have the ability to license our film to screen for educational purposes. The film is available to stream on New Day’s website with various licensing terms, digital life of file purchase or educational DVD purchase.
New Day Films is a unique,Β filmmaker-run distribution company, providing award-winning films to educators, community groups, government agencies, public libraries and businesses since 1971. New Day has continued to deliver dynamic, provocative storytelling for 50 years. New Day filmmakers have won Academy Awards including co-founder, Julia Reichert (2020 Best Documentary Winner for American Factory), 4 Emmys, and hundreds of awards at prestigious film festivals. New Day films have been broadcast on PBS, HBO and other media outlets.Β
We’re so happy to announce another major win for our film. We made our World Premiere in March at Cinequest Film Festival before the pandemic shut everything down and also screened during their Virtual Film Festival in October. It’s been quite a journey because of the unusual year the world is having. It’s a wonderful surprise to receive this award when we didn’t even know if audiences would be able to watch our film at all several months ago.
We thank everyone who watched our film in-person in March and online in October for giving our film such high ratings!
We’re excited to announce that our film won the 2020 CAAMFest Audience Award for documentary! CAAM (The Center for Asian American Media) has been supporting and promoting films by Asian American filmmakers for 40 years. It’s a great honor and we appreciate everyone who watched our film. Click here to see full list of CAAMFest winners.
We are thrilled to announce that our documentary won Best Feature Film at the 2020 Women Texas Film Festival! What an honor for our director, Larissa Lam, to be recognized alongside so many great female filmmakers. Thanks to everyone who supported the film.
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