Day: May 22, 2013

  • Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki Women Make Movies 1995 70 minutes Color/BW, DVD Ruth Ozeki, Filmmaker, Novelist, and Zen Buddhist Priest Skeletons in the closet? Halving the Bones delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-Japanese filmmaker living in New York, who has inherited…

  • South Korea’s multiculturalism Al Jazeera The Stream 2013-05-21 How is the nation dealing with its growing diversity? A multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society is an emerging reality that is leading to a lot of racial and social discord in South Korea. Faced with an aging population and an influx of migrant wives, many are clinging to their…

  • LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are…