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Out today! Tickled that Wayne Wang director-approved my essay for the edition. I touch on Ozu, documentary, the SFSU strikes for ethnic studies, and the Taiwan New Cinema, while claiming Wang as the most important San Francisco narrative filmmaker. Above all, watch this film!

For the first of several domestic melodramas, Wayne Wang drew on the influence of Ozu and the talent within his own San Francisco community to explore the relationship between a mother and her daughter. Read Brian Hu on DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART ❤️criterion.com/current/posts/…

We're hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Screenwriting San Diego State University. Lots of exciting change happening in the TV, Film, and New Media program, and we're looking for a colleague to help shape it for the coming decades. apply.interfolio.com/131895

Trial of Uyghur film-maker to begin in China this week theguardian.com/global-develop…

Minari, Past Lives, The Farewell, Everything Everywhere all At Once. Is it a coincidence that this wave of award-winning Asian American cinema is all distributed by A24? That question led to other ones, culminating in this article, now in Film Quarterly online.ucpress.edu/fq/article-abs…

An unexpected number 1! Happy to see attention going its way and grateful to have been able to contribute to the Blu-ray edition.

Peppermint Candy is one of the films that made me fall in love with South Korean Cinema. Tonight you can see it at MOPA thx to Brian Hu & Pacific Arts Movement . It's brilliant and heartbreaking sdmart.org/event/on-film-…

This series was a blast to research. So much tenderness, bitterness, humor, and horror, told through bold, personal visions of America.

FIRST-PERSON ASIAN AMERICAN: 11 DOCUMENTARIES criterionchannel.com/first-person-a… As independent Asian American filmmakers took the matter of self-representation into their own hands, many turned inward: to their own families, personal histories, and private musings.