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August 5, 2023 0

August Moon Festival: Celebrating the Brightest and Fullest Moon of the Year

Every year, millions across China and the Chinese diaspora gather to celebrate the August Moon Festival. In Chinese culture, the festival is one of the most important occasions, second only to Lunar New Year. Dating back over 3,000 years, the festival is traditionally held on the 15th day of the 8th month on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. It is meant to commemorate the brightest and fullest moon of the year. August Moon Festival, or the Mid-Autumn Festival, is a celebration […]

August 5, 2023 0

Mutant Mayhem: Fun for All Ages

by Din Makreas

Cowabunga dudes! The newest iteration of the evergreen (no pun intended) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is here! TMNT Mutant Mayhem is the cinematic reboot audiences and fans have been waiting for. Directed by Jeff Rowe and produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver, Mutant Mayhem aims high and delivers on every level. This is hands-down the best the Turtles have ever been on screen. This movie just oozes charm and charisma (again, no pun intended). Previous attempts to […]

July 22, 2023 0

Peace, Reunification, and Healing: an Interview with Crossings Director Deann Borshay Liem on the two Koreas and Hopes for Resolution after Seventy Years

by Christopher John Stephens

Emmy Award-Winning documentarian Deann Borshay Liem’s new film Crossings examines the 2015 journey a group of female peace activists takes to call attention to the still unresolved issues between North and South Korea. It starts streaming on July 22 at midnight on worldchannel.org, WORLD’s YouTube and the PBS app ahead of the July 23 television broadcast on WORLD at 10pm ET. SAMPAN: Your work is often about identity and the repercussions of history. Crossings shows, among other things, how the […]

July 22, 2023 0

Joy Ride: A True Joy Ride From Start to Finish

by Harmony Witte

The latest film by director Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians) is aptly named as it is a true joy ride from start to finish. It tells the tale of four Chinese American friends who embark on a journey to China to find one of their birth mothers. The film is simultaneously raunchy and hilarious, with a few surprisingly poignant moments mixed in, all of that along with an exploration of identity. Along the way, the main characters all learn to […]

July 8, 2023 0

Elemental Review

by Harmony Witte

Pixar’s Elemental is a sweet, transfixing tale of an immigrant family of fire elementals making their way through their new life in Element City and the unlikely love story that unfolds. The film follows two generations of a family who are new in a city full of anthropomorphic water, land, earth, and air residents. A city that its very infrastructure is not made to accommodate fire elementals. When the young, temperamental, Ember, meets an easy-going water elemental called Wade, sparks fly, and […]

July 8, 2023 0

The Mysterious World of Cirque Du Soleil: Behind the Magic

by DongDong Yang

Cirque du Soleil is a Canadian entertainment company and the world’s largest theater production company. Known as Canada’s “National Treasure,” it is the fastest growing, highest-earning and most popular art group in the world today. Corteo is a centerpiece play from Cirque that combines elegant aerial acrobatics and shocking theatrical performances. “Corteo” means “cortege” in Italian, which means a process of joy and refers to a happy team imagined by the clown, Mauro, who envisions that his own burial will […]

June 24, 2023 0

Boston’s Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Race was Another Exciting Year of Competition and Camaraderie

by DongDong Yang

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duan Wu Jie. People eat zongzi and watch the dragon-boat race, which this year is June 22th 2023. The Dragon Boat Festival originated in ancient China (278 BCE) to commemorate Qu Yan, who drowned himself in the Miluo River in Hunan Province. He was a loyal minister of the King of Chu and one of the greatest […]

June 10, 2023 0

Stay True: Hua Hsu’s Memoir About Friendship, Identity, and Assimilation

by Christopher John Stephens

Friendship memoirs can be a tricky genre to navigate. By definition, the writer is on the outside of the narrative: The focus is defining the importance of the relationship. Ann Patchett’s 2004 memoir Truth and Beauty comes immediately to mind. Its evocation of the writer’s relationship with poet Lucy Grealy worked because the focus rested on the symbiotic connection between writer and her subject. In Hua Hsu’s remarkable 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Stay True, that symbiosis takes on an even […]

May 27, 2023 0

Resilience and Beyond: Asian American Film Festival on GBH World

by Sonia Cavazos

GBH WORLD has created a lineup of films in honor of AAPI slated for the entire month of May. There will be a total of four programs on WORLD; three will be full-length documentaries, and seven short films titled, Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond. The intersection of recognizing emerging filmmakers from different backgrounds while highlighting diversity and culture is something that GBH WORLD takes pride in. GBH’s General Manager for Television, Liz Cheng discussed the return to the […]

April 23, 2023 0

Life and Legacy of Legendary Japanese Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto

by Kristen Si

“Ars longa, vita brevis.” (Latin for “Art is long, life is short.”) – Hippocrates At the age of 71, Ryuichi Sakamoto – legendary Japanese composer – passed away on March 28, 2023 after battling cancer for years. The above Hippocrates quote was posted as part of a statement on his website following his passing, showcasing his status and continuing legacy as an icon within electronic pop music and the film industry. As a composer, music producer, and activist, Ryuichi Sakamoto […]

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