the Roxbury International Film Festival continues to showcase and honor the works of emerging filmmakers of color as well as established filmmakers, and has become the largest festival in New England dedicated to this genre. — Read on artsemerson.org/events/boston-asian-american-film-festival-2025/ trailer for LOVE, CHINATOWN! Premiere October 17. 2025 at Arts Emerson Paramount
Author: Cynthia Yee
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Filming Magic : on making a totally unscripted documentary short , “LOVE, CHINATOWN, “ with Breakwater Studio’s talented director, Lukas Dong, two time Academy Award winning director of photography, Sam Davis , and my multi-talented co-storyteller, Gwen Liu, Spring, 2024.
Gwen Liu and I are the subjects of the two-time Academy Award winning Breakwater Studios documentary short, LOVE, CHINATOWN, to be released in 2025. I shared this photo guest speaking at the Emerson College FPS MiniFest film festival. Part of my speech was about allowing the magic of spontaneity and serendipity to infuse their work. … Continue reading Filming Magic : on making a totally unscripted documentary short , “LOVE, CHINATOWN, “ with Breakwater Studio’s talented director, Lukas Dong, two time Academy Award winning director of photography, Sam Davis , and my multi-talented co-storyteller, Gwen Liu, Spring, 2024.
Guest Speaker at the Emerson College “Frames Per Second (FPS)”MiniFest Film Festival.
December 4, 2024 It is an honor to be invited to be Guest Speaker at Emerson College’s oldest film club , Frames Per Second (FPS). Emerson, the first university to establish a partnership with Premiere, an international film festival distributor, will be giving its film students the opportunity to screen their winning film to an … Continue reading Guest Speaker at the Emerson College “Frames Per Second (FPS)”MiniFest Film Festival.
Designing and Leading a tour of “Small Businesses in Boston Chinatown “ for the “Anti-Displacement Studio” of Northeastern University, founded by Urban Planning professor, Dr Lily Song of Northeastern University’s Urban Planning Department.
September 30, 2024 t was such a joy to give these Northeastern University Urban Planning /Architect students , members of NU Asst Professor of Race, Social Justice and the Built Environment , Dr. Lily Song’s “Anti-Displacement Studio,” a walking tour of Small Businesses in Chinatown. We started with “nai cha” Hong Kong style milk tea … Continue reading Designing and Leading a tour of “Small Businesses in Boston Chinatown “ for the “Anti-Displacement Studio” of Northeastern University, founded by Urban Planning professor, Dr Lily Song of Northeastern University’s Urban Planning Department.
Guest Speaker at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center on “The Ramifications & Effects of Highway Building On an Immigrant Community, Boston Chinatown. “
October 7, 2024 Life is full of ironies . In 1963, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority rammed a highway through my Chinatown home on Hudson Street, displacing 100 Chinese and Syrian immigrant families, affecting 10,000 Chinese.Today, 61 years later, I’m invited to speak at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, on the personal and community impacts … Continue reading Guest Speaker at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center on “The Ramifications & Effects of Highway Building On an Immigrant Community, Boston Chinatown. “
Giving a Boston Chinatown tour for the international “Chinatown Project” of Australian architect, Andrea Lam, winner of the highly coveted Procter Prize for Architecture.
October 9, 2024 Today I had the great pleasure of meeting and getting to know Australian architect, Andrea Lam, the winner of the coveted 2023 Christopher Procter Prize for architectural research. Of Cantonese and Vietnamese heritage, her parents settled in Sydney, Australia, where she was born and raised . She arrived in Boston after doing … Continue reading Giving a Boston Chinatown tour for the international “Chinatown Project” of Australian architect, Andrea Lam, winner of the highly coveted Procter Prize for Architecture.
Taking Northeastern University’s “Anti-Displacement Studio” urban planning students of Professor Dr. Lily Song on a tour of Boston Chinatown Small Businesses, December 18, 2024.
It was a pleasure to take Northeastern University Urban Planning and Design and Architect students from NU Assistant Professor of Race and Social Justice in the Built Environment, Dr. Lily Song’s “Anti-Displacement Studio“ on a walking tour of Small Businesses in Boston Chinatown. We started at Cafe 180 with the symbols of resistance against colonial … Continue reading Taking Northeastern University’s “Anti-Displacement Studio” urban planning students of Professor Dr. Lily Song on a tour of Boston Chinatown Small Businesses, December 18, 2024.
Momentum Greenway Dance Program, Presented by Amazon, 2023 – The Rose Kennedy Greenway
I am so pleased that Hudson Street Chronicles became the primary research source for the choreography of “Becoming Water,” by the Continuum Dance Project, choreographed by co-directors, Fernadina Chan and Adriane Brayton as part of the Momentum Greenway Dance Program, presented by Amazon, 2023. I recorded a bilingual Taishanese/English voiceover of 12 quotes from my … Continue reading Momentum Greenway Dance Program, Presented by Amazon, 2023 – The Rose Kennedy Greenway
“Sky” : a resource for “Joyful Stitch”
In creating Joyful Stitch, visual artist and landscape designer Ponnapa Prakkamakul read my essay, “Sky” and my poem, “ My MaMa’s Back” and conducted interviews of myself and other children of garment workers, revealing a thoughtful research process. Thank you very much , Ponnapa Prakkamakul, for your respect for primary sources and your sensitivity to … Continue reading “Sky” : a resource for “Joyful Stitch”
Hudson Street Chronicles 