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Far East Deep South is now available to watch via university and higher learning access through 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, there’s 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 through 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, 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. 

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’re happy to announce that our film is an official selection at Women Texas Film Festival! It will be a celebration of female filmmakers like our director Larissa Lam. It’s an esteemed group of films that will be showcased this year. Our screening will take place on Sat. Aug. 15th, 2020. This is an online event but it will be geo-blocked for residents of Texas only.

The screening will be free or pay what you can. You must register to view the film and the film is viewable on-demand only on Aug 15th until 11:59pm CDT.

Larissa Lam and Baldwin Chiu will also take part in a filmmaker Q&A and panel on racial healing on Aug 15th at 6pm CDT. The panel will stream live on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxI8J0hor2-Fq4ViSuZn_Q and Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/womenTXFF

Click below for more details and to register to watch the film.

How do you start researching your family history? Join us for this live Zoom meeting on August 8th 10am PT with Baldwin Chiu and Larissa Lam, producers of the documentary, Far East Deep South. They will share secrets behind their family’s amazing discoveries as depicted in the film. Learn helpful tips and resources you can use to research your own family. They will also discuss strategies on interviewing family members that may be reluctant to share about the past. This session will include time for Q&A. We welcome all ages and time zones. Free to register. Limited space.

Zoom meeting link will be sent within 24 hours before start time. We recommend downloading the Zoom application ahead of the meeting. All members of your household are welcome to watch and participate.

Oxford Film Festival had their awards ceremony online for the 1st time ever and our film won Best Mississippi Feature Film!!! This was the first time we have competed against both documentaries and narrative feature films in a category. There were so many great films that it is a huge honor to receive this award. Normally, there’s an actual “Hoka” award presented so it’s bittersweet not being able to celebrate in person in Mississippi. We know there are more important things in the world than awards, but it was nice to get some good news. Don’t forget our film is playing online until June 12. Watch it here http://Oxford.fareastdeepsouth.com

We hope to show video of Larissa Lam and Baldwin Chiu’s online acceptance speech soon.

The Oxford Film Festival was originally to have taken place in Oxford, MS in March. Like all other events, is was postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19 shutdowns. Well, the festival will now be doing the Oxford Virtual Film Festival online all summer and Far East Deep South is in the lineup! This will be next time the general public has an opportunity to see Far East Deep South since theaters and festivals continue to be shuttered.

The film will be available to watch on demand only between June 5-12. The cost to watch the film is $10. The proceeds from the “ticket sales” will help offset lost costs to the festival and the filmmakers due to the COVID-19 shutdown. Once you buy a “ticket”, you can watch anytime during the week the film is available. Your “ticket” purchase will also give you access to join the live video Q&A on June 10th at 5pm PDT/8pm EDT (New date/time!) with director, Larissa Lam, producer, Baldwin Chiu and editor, Dwight Buhler.

The Oxford Film Festival is hoping to have a real in-person festival later in the year but until then, please support the film by going to Oxford.FarEastDeepSouth.com  for info on this screening and to purchase a “ticket”.

For more technical info & FAQ on how to watch online through Eventive, the platform Oxford Film Festival is using, click here.