Session 2: RESTART // REIMAGINE

FORWARD Symposium
90 mins

COVID-19 has changed the world as we know it on many different levels, some yet unknown. We see the devastating impact it is having on the livelihoods of our filmmakers, our film institutions, and the wider media landscape. But through these challenges, what opportunities and changes could arise for filmmakers, especially those that have been historically underserved? How is this time of upheaval activating filmmakers to call for necessary changes to an unfair system? How has this time galvanized filmmakers and how they view themselves? How has this period of distancing and social unrest impacted the filmmaking form and in what ways? These are a few topics that we will explore with an all-star panel of media makers and industry professionals.

Moderator: Sapana Sakya

Panelists: Lan Nguyen, Chi-hui Yang, Nausheen Dadabhoy

Co-presented by: Asian American Documentary Network

Speaker Bios

**Chi-hui Yang** is Senior Program Officer, JustFilms, Ford foundation and an acclaimed curator, film scholar, and educator, makes grants in film, new media, and visual storytelling for the foundation’s JustFilms program. He has global experience in supporting emerging artists and in the wider field of independent film. Before joining the foundation in 2015, Chi-hui worked extensively as a film and video curator, including as a selection committee member for MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, consulting series producer for PBS’s POV, and curator of Comcast’s Cinema Asian America video-on-demand service. Among his independently curated programs are the 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar, the Age of Migration, and the 2014 film series and symposium Lines and Modes: Media, Infrastructure, and Aesthetics. From 2000 to 2012, he was director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in the nation.

**Lan Nguyen** is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees and was raised in Cambodia Town, Long Beach. Lan is a filmmaker, educator, and community organizer and cares deeply about issues such as immigration, incarceration, and racial justice. Lan utilizes documentary filmmaking as a tool for community organizing and social change. She has directed several short films about social justice issues, which have been screened in festivals, community centers, and universities. She was a 2019 NeXt Doc Fellow and teaches ethnic studies at California State University, Long Beach.

**Nausheen Dadabhoy**, is a Pakistani-American director and cinematographer from California. As a cinematographer Nausheen has lensed a number of narrative and documentary films: The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion (2019), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is currently streaming on Netflix; La Femme et Le TGV (2016), a live-action short Oscar nominee; the Emmy Award winning Armed with Faith (2018, additional cinematographer); Girl Unbound: War to Be Her (2016), which premiered at TIFF and aired on POV; Conscience Point (2019), which aired on Independent Lens; and J’adore Nawal a short for HBO Documentaries (2018), which premiered at Sundance. Her directorial debut The Ground Beneath Their Feet (2014) premiered at IDFA in the first appearance competition. She is currently directing her second feature film, An Act of Worship, which has received support from the Ford Foundation, IFP, Field of Vision, Hot Docs, Sundance, among others.

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Thu, Oct 15
3:00 pm

Session 2: RESTART // REIMAGINE

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