Documentarian Elizabeth Lo gravitates toward subjects who live and survive on the margins. Her amazing run of short non-fiction work bears this out. Hotel 22 (2015) takes refuge inside a Silicon Valley transit line that acts as nightly refuge for the local homeless population, while Mother’s Day (2017), co-directed by R.J. Lozada, takes another bus pilgrimage with the children of incarcerated women who only get to spend an extended amount of time with each other once a year.
Usually framed by the expectations and motivations of local news reporting human-interest sentiment, these types of stories can often come across as opportunistic and pandering when told by lesser artists. But Lo’s patient aesthetic and empathic approach is deeply human, and beautifully challenges those cynical assumptions by providing a welcome space for disenfranchised groups to express themselves without fear or judgment.
Seemingly drawn to poetry and melancholy of nomadic experiences, Lo’s first...
Usually framed by the expectations and motivations of local news reporting human-interest sentiment, these types of stories can often come across as opportunistic and pandering when told by lesser artists. But Lo’s patient aesthetic and empathic approach is deeply human, and beautifully challenges those cynical assumptions by providing a welcome space for disenfranchised groups to express themselves without fear or judgment.
Seemingly drawn to poetry and melancholy of nomadic experiences, Lo’s first...
- 10/23/2020
- by Glenn Heath Jr.
- The Film Stage
Filmmakers and film subjects who shape the way we see San Diego’s history will stud the exclusive red carpet kicking off the 20th anniversary celebration of Pacific Arts Movement’s San Diego Asian Film Festival. To commemorate this momentous occasion, Pacific Arts Movement will feature the premiere of The Paradise We Are Looking For, the documentary it commissioned to highlight Asian American stories from local neighborhoods in San Diego throughout the decades.
This festival, historically the largest platform of Asian cinema on the west coast, strives to represent the Asian American Pacific Islander (Aapi) community through storytelling. Through the decades, the festival has influenced how Asian and Asian American cinema evolved, and The Paradise We Are Looking Fordisplays the Aapi community’s long-standing presence in San Diego. The documentary’s themes of identity, immigration, inclusion and military presence uncover the relationship between these elements and their lasting impact on Aapi communities.
This festival, historically the largest platform of Asian cinema on the west coast, strives to represent the Asian American Pacific Islander (Aapi) community through storytelling. Through the decades, the festival has influenced how Asian and Asian American cinema evolved, and The Paradise We Are Looking Fordisplays the Aapi community’s long-standing presence in San Diego. The documentary’s themes of identity, immigration, inclusion and military presence uncover the relationship between these elements and their lasting impact on Aapi communities.
- 11/7/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Filmmakers and film subjects who shape the way we see San Diego’s history will stud the exclusive red carpet kicking off the 20th anniversary celebration of Pacific Arts Movement’s San Diego Asian Film Festival. To commemorate this momentous occasion, Pacific Arts Movement will feature the premiere of The Paradise We Are Looking For, the documentary it commissioned to highlight Asian American stories from local neighborhoods in San Diego throughout the decades.
This festival, historically the largest platform of Asian cinema on the west coast, strives to represent the Asian American Pacific Islander (Aapi) community through storytelling. Through the decades, the festival has influenced how Asian and Asian American cinema evolved, and The Paradise We Are Looking For displays the Aapi community’s long-standing presence in San Diego. The documentary’s themes of identity, immigration, inclusion and military presence uncover the relationship between these elements and their lasting impact on Aapi communities.
This festival, historically the largest platform of Asian cinema on the west coast, strives to represent the Asian American Pacific Islander (Aapi) community through storytelling. Through the decades, the festival has influenced how Asian and Asian American cinema evolved, and The Paradise We Are Looking For displays the Aapi community’s long-standing presence in San Diego. The documentary’s themes of identity, immigration, inclusion and military presence uncover the relationship between these elements and their lasting impact on Aapi communities.
- 10/26/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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