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shareOut/Here has been a vital institution celebrating queer stories and storytellers at CAAMFest for over a decade. This year, we’re thinking about the social and emotional landscape of gender. How do our experiences of gender shape the relationships with ourselves and others?
Expected Guests in Attendance: Director Emory Chao Johnson (默 (To Write from Memory)), Director Hao Zhou (Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way), Marc Marcos (Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way)
Open Captions: Some, but not all, films in this program have open captions or English subtitles.
Closed Captions: There are no closed captions.
Audio Descriptions: There are no audio descriptions.
ASL Interpreters: There is no ASL interpretation.
In this program
Mooncake
Directed by Rraine Hanson
A theatrical and collagic exploration of childhood fantasies set in Manhattan Chinatown.
Squeegee Boy
Directed by Chung-Wei Huang
A trans Asian American preteen finds friendship among squeegee boys, with whom issues of race and gender collide.
默 (To Write from Memory)
Directed by Emory Chao Johnson
A mother’s alienating treatment of her child’s transness serves as a soundtrack to the rituals of daily life for a young person growing into their adult life.
The Performance
Directed by Claire Zhou
In a coming out of her own, an immigrant mother navigates her religious community’s disapproval of her child’s gender expression.
Retrieval
Directed by Fatimah Asghar
In a soul retrieval at the threshold of fantasy and reality, a young woman retraces a moment frozen in time to recover her past self from sexual trauma.
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way
Directed by Hao Zhou
The colorful queer life of a sewing virtuoso in Iowa is punctuated by their return home to Guam.
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