Dolly Li and Adrian De Leon Make Asian American History Accessible, One Video at a Time
The duo behind “A People’s History of Asian America” on collaboration, trust, and new ways of telling stories.
Storytellers 2021
How Elizabeth Ai Tells Stories That Turn Underdogs Into Heroes
“It was a lightbulb moment for me to realize that my heroes have always been there, right in my community.”
Amna Nawaz Takes Up Space and Tells Stories
“It just clicked that this was a form of public service. This was someplace I could tell stories and use my natural curiosity and my desire to travel and to be close to things.”
Emerging Filmmaker Set Hernandez Rongkilyo Strives for Poetry in the Political
Five years since embarking on their documentary-in-progress, Unseen, Set Hernandez Rongkilyo is finally starting to feel seen as a filmmaker, and as a person….
The Godfather of Asian American Blogging, Phil Yu
If there is a Godfather of Asian American blogging, it is Phil Yu—a.k.a., Angry Asian Man. Yu, who runs the 20 year-old blog and…
Geeta Gandbhir On Being The Slightly Shrill Person In The Room
“I spent a lot of time in my career, being what I like to call the slightly shrill person in the room, the person who is always pointing at people.”
Data and Storytelling Are In Karthick Ramakrishnan’s DNA
“We believe that data is beautiful, or can be beautiful and compelling. So we put a lot of time and thought into how data are visualized and presented.”
Chef Tu David Phu Tells Stories of Migration Through Food
“I think authenticity is often misused. For me, authenticity is a feeling and emotion that you can invoke in somebody that something’s genuine.”
Dante Basco Looks Back and Forward at His Career in Storytelling
“We need to tell stories from our own perspective, and we need to have that conversation of art through each other’s perspectives.”
How Ursula Liang Learned to Make Documentaries Without Going to Film School
The New York filmmaker learned by doing, to create documentaries that illuminate the experiences of East Coast Chinese communities.