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zation that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination
of independent social issue film and video by and about War in Daechuri
people of color. In addition, TWN serves as a fiscal sponsor koreA & koreAn DiAS- repAtriAtion
porA StuDieS Kim Dong-won, 2003,149 min
of independent film and electronic media productions, as well The story of North Koreans arrested by the
new wAr in DAechuri South for spying. These men spent thirty
as artistic, educational and cultural projects. TWN also has a Jeong Il Geon, 2006, 45 min years as political prisoners, undergoing
Spurred by the US government's plan to
variety of workshops and classes throughout the year on film expand military bases in Pyeongtaek city,
“conversion” schemes involving torture.
Winner of the Freedom of Expression Award,
and video production. a war is being waged against the farmers Sundance Film Festival, 2004.
of the South Korean village of Daechuri.
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homeS ApArt
these farmers worked on for decades,
schools and homes were destroyed, elderly JT Takagi & Christine Choy, 1991, 56 min
women beaten, and thousands of police Koreans remain separated between north
get a 15% discount on all Asian Studies titles when you surrounded the village and enclosed it and south, fearing a threat of mutual
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struggle - and their difficult decisions on documentary reveals the personal and polit-
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Cover photo, Rising Up: The Alams, Konrad Aderer Brochure design by Lisa Gaeddert profiles the characters and lives of these JT Takagi & Hye-Jung Park, 1995, 60 min
lisa.gaeddert@gmail.com amazing women. A look at the lives of women who work in
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27,000 women “service” American soldiers.
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Epilogue Rising Up: The Alams
It follows their journey from the outskirts of Russians was documented in secret by part of Western medicine's discourse and AlexiA
Seoul to the inner cities of America. artist Shin Sun-Nam, in his epic painting ideology. 2000, 10 min
DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225 Requiem. DVD Sale: $175 Alexia is an experimental video about word
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cAmp ArirAng the origin of language and aspect blindness.
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1994, 17 min
1995, 29 min trAng This video reminds us that AIDS patients
A gritty look at the camptowns surrounding Tran T. Kim-Trang's Blindness Series consists face both the possibility of vision loss and cAll For chAnge/cAll
U.S. military bases in South Korea. It follows of eight experimental videos which consider society's blindness towards ethnic, gender to meDiA Action
an ex-sex worker devoted to aiding sex and sexual difference.
workers and running a daycare center .
blindness as metaphor.
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Konrad Aderer / Third World Newsreel
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epilogue: the pAlpAble 2005, 11 min
oculAriS: eye Surro- As part of the Homeland security measures,
trAnSlAting grAce inviSibility oF liFe
2006, 13 min gAteS immigrant men from 25 countries were
Anita Lee, 1996, 20 min 1997, 21 min required to enroll in a Special Registration
A drama exploring the unique relationship How can we make visible the invisible?
How can we "see" our lost loved ones? In Tran publicized a 1-800 number for callers program. Although no evidence of terrorist
between two Korean-Canadian women: to express their private fears and fantasies activities was found, some 13,000 people
one a recent immigrant, the other a trans- Epilogue, Tran looks for answers to these
questions in the audio recordings of her about being watched. are now being deported mostly for expired
lator. DVD Sale: $175 visas. The Alams were among the many
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida and families who believed that voluntarily partici-
pating in the Special Registration would
the ultrasound photos of her newborn ekleipSiS
turmeric borDer mArkS baby. Finding no ready-made answers, Tran show their loyalty. Instead, and despite two
1998, 23 min
Christina Choe, 2000, 25 min invites us to reflect about life and death in decades of hard work in the United States,
In ekleipsis, Tran tells the story of a group
A young Korean-American college student this moving video essay about motherhood they face the prospect of breaking up their
of hysterically blind Cambodian women
voyages back to the motherland where she and mourning. family. Working with DRUM (Desis Rising
who were victims of the Khmer Rouge
meets South Asian migrant workers. These Up and Moving), a NYC South Asian activist
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parallel stories illuminate and question our group, the Alams have become activists,
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assumptions of identity and culture, as well organizing to fight for their right to stay.
AletheiA DVD Sale: $25
as power and resistance. 1992, 16 min AmAuroSiS
DVD Sale: $175 Aletheia explores how seeing relates to 2002, 28 min
identity, language, sexuality and technology. Amaurosis is about Nguyen Duc Dat, a DAStAAr: DeFenDing Sikh
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Soh-Young Kim, 2000, 93 min living in Little Saigon, California. Kevin Lee / Third World Newsreel
This film traces the history of a Korean DVD Sale: $175 2005, 12 min
operculum
diasporic community in the former USSR. 1993, 14 min A restaurant owner beaten. A policeman
Placed in internment camps during World Operculum reveals how race and racism are fired. A 20 year subway conductor threat-
War II, the plight of a generation of Korean- ened with job loss. All for wearing the
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signature turbans of Sikhism, a religion and perspectives. Those who live and work
originated in India and different from Islam. in New York City’s Chinatown describe how
Since 9/11, hate crimes and job losses their community has been affected since
have plagued the Sikh-American commu- the attacks.
nity. In response, the New York City Sikh DVD Sale: $30
community has organized to confront the
bias and attacks, through legal suits, pres- ASiAn StuDieS
sure on city officials and proactive public The Sisters of Ladakh
education. An excellent introduction to Stubborn city
an often misunderstood religion and the Pooja Rangan, 2007, 10 min mASk DVD Sale: $175
success of community activism. The piece chronicles, through a series of Liu Xiaojin, 2000, 120 min
DVD Sale: $25 images, the people of Bombay coping with Performances of the Guansuo Opera, in not Simply A weDDing.
the aftermath of a sudden torrential rainfall which all the actors wear masks, were Mickey Chen & Ming-Hsiu Chen, 1997,
that devastated Bombay city and several suspended during the Cultural Revolution, 50 min.
we too Sing AmericA smaller villages on the west coast of India in and its script was burned. In 1980 it was This documentary about the first public gay
Yun Jong Suh / Third World Newsreel July 2005, just prior to Katrina. to be performed once again. Mask records wedding in Taiwan has stirred up consider-
2001, 12 min By posing the issue of catastrophe in a antagonisms amongst villagers, performers, able controversy, including a local campaign
This short is a revealing document of the personal register, within a global framework officials, and filmmakers. to ban the film.
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American and South Asian children in City focus our attention on what is at stake
the milieu of a country calling for war and in the media coverage of natural disas-
unconditional compliance after the events SAn jie cAo mArriAge
ters and questions what it means to be a Bibo Liang, 1997, 60 min
of September 11th. Anxiety gives way to Bibo Liang, 1997, 58 min
subject of disaster, whether as a media- In 1943 a Chinese girl was taken against
determination and perserverance as each An intimate portrait tracing two sides of one
maker, victim, survivor, or spectator. her will by a tribal headman to be his
of the children refuse to submit to popular mountain in a remote village in Southwest
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sentiment and prejudice. China. A matchmaker attempts to unite
DVD Sale: $30 and having raised four children, this 70- two families while guiding them through six
bombAy cAlling year-old woman succeeds in sending her formal rituals for marriage that date back
Ben Addelman and Samir Malla / Adam granddaughter back to her hometown. over 2000 years.
homelAnD inSecurity Symansky , 2006, 71 min DVD Sale: $225 DVD Sale: $225
JT Takagi, Darrell Jones, Herman Lew & Bombay provides American and British
Dorothy Thigpen / Third World Newsreel outsourcing firms with access to well-
2001, 6 min Devotion ...will be televiSeD
educated, English-speaking youths eager Barbara Hammer, 2000, 85 min
In Homeland Insecurity Arab Americans, Shu Lea Cheang
to get ahead and willing to sacrifice almost Investigates the complex relationships
Muslim Americas and South Asian 1991, 300 min
anything to do it. For their efforts, they are among a loyal group of filmmakers who
Americans denounce hate crimes against This series of tapes from five different parts
paid more money than their parents ever dedicated 30 years making films for one
their communities in the months following of Asia offers a window on the social and
dreamed of earning. And they spend it man - Ogawa Shinsuke. These heart-
September 11. These crimes are set within political changes taking place in the region.
frequenting a new brand of all-night discos breaking stories, along with interviews of
the historical context of jingoism and nation- (In 5 separate tapes)
that cater to their unusual office hours. Oshima Nagisa and Robert Kramer, have
alism in the United States. VHS Sale: $225
Bombay Calling dives into this bustling never been told on film before.
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partying. The result is a compelling insider's SiSterS oF lADAkh
tAke A look: nyc chinA- look at youth culture in India and at the Ricardo Lobo, 2003, 50 min
growing number of young people who urgA Song An inquiry into the feminine vision of
town poSt 9-11 Jessica Woodsworth, 1999, 19 min Buddhism. Filmed on location in Ladakh,
Kevin Lee, 2001, 4 min choose to follow the American dream...
Indian style. A National Film Board of A lyrical cine-poem portraying newly-demo- on the Himalayan border between India and
A closer look at one of the most historical cratic Mongolia from the perspective of
Canada production. Tibet, it features stunning photo-graphy
neighborhoods near the World Trade Center young artists residing in the capital city of
DVD Rental: $95/DVD Sale: $225 with testimonies of Tibetan nuns.
finds a variety of personalities, viewpoints, Ulaan Baatar. DVD Sale: $225
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uS techniqueS oF geno- warplanes.
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ciDe
Vietnamese People’s Army Film, 1968,
35 min people’S wAr
Describes the use of elaborate U.S. Newsreel, 1969, 40 min
weapons in Vietnam such as those This film records the mobilization and
designed to kill human targets while causing participation of the Vietnamese people in
minimal damage to buildings and the inter- their country’s fight against colonialism and
nationally banned dum-dum bullet. foreign military aggression.
People's War DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225 DVD Rental: $85/DVD Sale: $300
memorieS oF A the women oF wArAy
Forgotten wAr wArAy Struggle For liFe jAreenA, portrAit oF A
Camilla Griggers & Sari Dalena, 2002, 57 Fruto Corre, 1990, 5 min National Liberation Front of Vietnam hiDjA
min A satiric look at U.S. intervention in the 1968, 30 min Prem Kalliat, 1990, 26 min
This documentary about the Philippine Philippines, using a half-Eartha Kitt, half- This film depicts Vietnamese medical This video offers a profile of a transsexual
American War of 1899 combines archival Imelda Marcos look-alike and television cadres working to save the lives of people and her community in the Indian city of
photographs and turn of the century film, footage. in the liberated areas of South Vietnam Bangalore.
digital video and 16mm footage to create DVD Rental: $30/DVD Sale: $95 during the war. DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175
memories of a forgotten history. DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225
DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225 the Army ForceD them ASiAn DiASporA StuDieS
to be violent lAoS, the Forgotten
From ASiA with love wAr two monthS to home
Tino Saroengallo, 2002, 43 min Janice Ahn, 2006, 8 min
Sari Dalena, 2002, 12 min After the fall of Suharto in 1998, the student Santiago Alvarez/ICAIC, 1967, 20 min
A critical look at the mail-order bride Samira Rahman is an Afghan mother who
movement in Indonesia faced military This film focuses on how the liberation
industry in Asia and its representations of narrowly escaped death at the hands of the
repression. Because of the force they forces of Laos, under continuous U.S.
Asian women in the West. Taliban just before September 11, 2001.
encountered, the movement eventually bombing, were able to run an entire society
DVD Sale: $175 Upon arrival in the United States, she is
challenged the military in the streets. in hidden caves and tunnels.
unduly held in a makeshift detention center
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for two months. Her husband and four chil-
nAileD dren and are elated and relieved when she
Angel Velasco Shaw, 1992, 50 min
79 SpringtimeS oF ho chi A DAy oF plAne hunting is finally released and allowed to remain in
A Philipina’s exploration of the Catholic Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1968, New York City. Samira learns a hard lesson
Church and 400 years of colonialism in the minh 20 min
Santiago Alvarez/ICAIC, 1969, 25 min about life in the United States, the price of
Pacific region is woven in a montage of This film shows the role Vietnamese immigration, and the importance of finding
images, sounds, stories and performances. This impressionist biography of the leader of
women played in the war, focusing on strength in herself.
DVD Sale: $225 the Democratic Republic of Vietnam skillfully
attempts made to achieve total participa- DVD Sale: $25
interweaves still photos, newsreel footage,
tion of women in production, education and
and Ho’s poetry.
umbilicAl corD combat.
Angel Velasco Shaw, 1998, 29 min
DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225
DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175 miSSiSSippi triAngle
A kaleidoscope of impressions of current C. Choy, W. Long, A. Siegel/TWN
events, the filmmaker asks people from the hAnoi, tueSDAy the 13th young puppeteerS oF 1984, 120 min
markets to malls questions about what a Santiago Alvarez/ICAIC, 1977, 40 min An intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi
hero means, and what the role of women is A record of the lives of people in the vietnAm Delta, where Chinese, African Americans
Vietnam capital and surrounding country- Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1969, and whites live in a complex world of
today.
side at the height of U.S. bombing. 25 min cotton, work, and racial conflict.
DVD Sale: $175
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liberated zones make beautiful puppets
from the remains of downed U.S.
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Comrades From Spikes to Spindles
Sewing womAn bAnner face resistance and disillusionment. DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175
Arthur Dong/Deep Focus Productions Duane Kubo & Robert Nakamura/Visual DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175
1983, 14 min Communications, 1980, 90 min Double expoSure
Through home movies, snapshots, and In this chronicle of Japanese Americans, rock me, gung hey Kit-Yin Snyder, 2003, 26 min
rare archival footage, this film weaves a veteran actor/director Mako leads a cast of Sheldon Ito/ TWN Workshop A look at the conflicts experienced by a
tapestry of Dong’s mother’s efforts to build Asian/Pacific/American actors including Pat 1995, 27 min first generation Chinese-American. It uses a
a new life in America. Nominated in 1984 Morita, Sachiko and the East-West Players The Gung Hey Kid is a fictional Chinese series of first-person reflections to examine
for an Academy Award for Best Short in this feature film. rapper created and played by Alvin Eng. her passage from young Chinese girl to
Documentary . Video Rental: $75/Video Sale: $225 “Rock Me” presents hip-hop as a forceful middle aged American woman.
Video Rental: $50/Video Sale: $175 protest against stereotypes. DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175
gAmAn, to enDure DVD Rental: $30/DVD Sale: $95
FreckleD rice Bob Miyamoto, Drawings by Betty Chen clouDS
Steven C. Ning, 1983, 48 min 1992, 6 min bitterSweet SurvivAl Scott Haynes & Fumiko Kiyooka, 1995,
The story of Joe Soo, a 13 year old boy An animated film that tells the story of the JT Takagi & Christine Choy / TWN, 1982, 26 min
coming of age and coming to terms with his 110,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated 30 min This film follows two women recalling their
Chinese American heritage in Boston during in the U.S. during World War II. An examination of the re-settlement of personal and familial experiences from
the 1960s. Video Rental: $30/Video Sale: $95 Southeast Asian refugees in the U.S. in the World War II.
Video Rental: $50/Video Sale: $175 aftermath of the Vietnam War. Video Rental: $50/Video Sale: $175
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i tolD you So Herman Lew, 1993, 30 min Some Divine winD
Alan Kondo, 1973, 19 min A lighthearted but poignant story about a tApeStry ii Roddy Bogawa, 1991, 72 min
“All this identity thing. What is it you’re 2nd generation Chinese American living in Organization of Asian Women, 1991, 55 This is the paradoxical story of a man
looking for?” asks the aunt of leading New York who falls for a local Italian girl. min whose father was part of a bombing
Japanese American poet, Lawson Inada. DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175 This video weaves the history of 200 years mission that destroyed his Japanese moth-
Through this intimate portrait, we explore of Asian women’s experiences. It begins er’s village and family during World War II.
Inada’s answer to this complex question. From SpikeS to SpinDleS with the early Asian immigration to the DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225
Video Rental: $50/Video Sale: $175 Christine Choy/TWN, 1976, 50 min U.S. from China, Japan, Korea and the
A portrait of New York’s Chinatown as Philippines and moves up to the 1950s. the chinAtown FileS
to be me: tony quon young and old join to protest police brutality DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225 Amy Chen, 2001, 57 min
Pat Lau & Don Miller/Visual and real estate developers. During McCarthy era witch-hunts, the
Communications, 1973, 10 min DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225 Spirit oF the DrAgon loyalty of thousands of American citizens of
This film follows Tony, a ten-year-old Gil Gavreau, 2003, 25 min Chinese descent was questioned based on
Chinese immigrant as he describes comrADeS In 1923, the Canadian government barred their alleged risk to national security. This
adjusting to an American school. Edward Wong, 1999, 26 min all Chinese immigration to Canada and doc presents first hand accounts of seven
Video Rental: $30/Video Sale: $95 A personal documentary essay about two required all of its Chinese citizens to carry men and women’s experiences of being
men who took part in the violent socialist identification cards. Jean Lumb was such targeted and jailed.
hito hAtA: rAiSe the struggles of the mid-20th century, only to citizen, and this is her story. Video Rental: $95/Video Sale: $335
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Desi Remix Chicago Style The Good Son
looking For wenDy SlAnteD viSionS the gooD Son DeSi remix chicAgo
Kimberly Saree Tomes, 1998, 19 min Ming-Yuen S. Ma, 1995, 50 min Michael Sandoval, 2002, 9 min Style
The filmmaker’s pseudo-search for her A promiscuous montage inspired by gay Pummeling a bag, a young Filipino- Balvinder Dhenjan, 1996, 46 min
roots as a Korean adoptee takes her from porn, kung fu movies and TV cooking American fighter forges a space for himself An energetic documentary following three
her adoptive father’s work in bio-engi- shows. Ma irreverently assesses the debate in Queens, New York in a house dominated very different Punjabi bands and their
neering (genetically creating the world’s on positive/negative images, representation by his minister father. Beneath the surface attempts to use their music as a bridge
juiciest tomato) to the adoptive relationship of sexuality and pleasure, sexual practices of this unspoken truce lie questions about between the competing cultural influences
between “Dave” the founder of Wendy’s in the age of AIDS and and their impact on religion, violence and the meaning of being of India and America.
and KFC’s Colonel Sanders. queer Asians. a man. Video Rental: $75/Video Sale: $225
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unDertow toc Storee ASiAn boyS Acting our Age
Me-K. Ahn, 1995, 19 min Ming-Yuen S. Ma, 1993, 21 min Angel Velasco Shaw, 1994, 19 min Gurinder Chada, 1992, 11 min
An experimental film juxtaposing one The first in a series addressing Asian/Pacific Eleven different interviews with “Asian This humorous and thought-provoking film
adopted woman’s reconstructed search Islander Gay experiences, this multilevel Boy’s” are intercut with images of “fish out documents the residents of a South Asian
for her birth mother (through a bleak urban narrative explores sexuality, identity and of water” in Chinatown and footage from home for the elderly in Britain. Director
landscape towards a phone booth) with the tradition. the Miss Universe contest in the Philippines. Chadha assists the residents in directing
attempt to connect mind and body. DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175 DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175 their own video.
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SiSterS n brotherS orientAtionS
mommy, whAt’S wrong? Veena Cabreros-Sud, 1994, 4 min Richard Fung, 1985, 56 min A nice ArrAngement
Anita Chang, 1995, 14 min The repeated image of an encounter on More than a dozen men and women of Gurinder Chada, 1990, 11 min
Along with optically-printed home movie the street between a young Filipino man different Asian backgrounds speak about A wry depiction of one of the most central
and hand-processed Super-8 film footage, and woman grows threatening in this their lives as members of a minority within of Indian traditions -- the arranged marriage.
Chang incorporates an interview with her metaphoric look at violence, self-hate and a minority. They speak of homophobia, Video Rental: $30/Video Sale: $95
mother about immigration, motherhood and communtiy racism, identity and the ways that being gay
spirituality, in search of strength. DVD Rental: $30/DVD Sale: $95 and Asian have shaped them. i’m britiSh but...
DVD Rental: $30/DVD Sale: $95 DVD Rental: $60/DVD Sale: $175 Gurinder Chada, 1989, 30 min
her uprooting plAntS This unique look at Asians in Britain offers
AnimAl AppetiteS her Flow first hand views of second generation
Michael Cho, 1991, 19 min Yau Ching, 1993, 38 min Asians, adding archival footage and tradi-
Celine Salazar Parrenas, 1994, 17 min
A biting critique of popular cultural Interweaving interviews with image tional Punjabi songs updated with hip-hop
Ten years after immigrating to the U.S three
stereotypes centers on the case of two processing and a critical use of the docu- and house music influences.
Filipina sisters move out of the family house
Cambodian immigrants tried in California mentary genre, this tape explores identity, Video Rental: $50/Video Sale: $175
and open a corner store. The film portrays
on charges of slaughtering their pet dog for the conflicts between the immigrant and nationhood, and multiculturalism.
food. U.S. born generations. DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175
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wAtAriDori: birDS oF
pASSAge
Robert Nakamura/Visual Communications
1974, 37 min
Lyricism and visual beauty are evident in
this film as four 1st generation Japanese
Americans describe a collective history.
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Bangla East Side
whAt Do you cAll bAnglA eASt SiDe (b.e.S.) yoni
‑
Sarita Khurana & Fariba Alam, 2003, 45 Jyoti Mistry, 1997, 20 min
An inDiAn wom- This film explores women’s power and
min
An who’S Funny? A portrait of four Bangladeshi teenagers passion through a series of images, erotic
Gurinder Chada, 1994, 13 min growing up in the Lower East Side of New performances and tableaux vivant.
This comedic documentary presents four York City, as they negotiate their lives Video Rental: $50/Video Sale: $175
Indian women cabaret performers while as young immigrant teens in post 9/11
posing the questions: What is comedy and America. borne in wAr
who defines it? What -- ultimately, do you DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225 Va-Megn Thoj/TWN Workshop, 1996, 9
call a funny Indian woman? min
Video Rental: $30/Video Sale: $95 Thoj traces his birth in Laos to his anti-
mAiD to StAy
Aparna Talaulicar, 1999, 30 min war years during the Gulf War. A TWN
mA/bAAp A doc about four South Asian Women Workshop Production.
Siraj Jhaveri, 1994, 30 min domestic workers in New York and their DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $150
When your parents hate each other -- how stories of exploitation and legal battles
do you learn to love? A personal chronicle against former employers. corner Store blueS
of the relationship between the filmmaker’s DVD Rental: $50/DVD Sale: $175 Kaizad Gustad, 1994, 48 min
Muslim father and Hindu mother. Feeling trapped working in his uncle’s store
Video Rental: $50/Video Sale: $175 in Little India, Rahul dreams of someday
tAxi-vAlA/Auto-biog-
making it as a blues musician.
leSt we Forget rAphy Video Rental: $75/Video Sale: $225
Jason DaSilva, 2003, 57 min Vivek Renjen-Bald, 1996, 49 min
A post-9/11 doc examining the roundups This documentary focuses on the lives of
and racial attacks that continue to occur in South Asian taxi drivers in New York City.
the name of national security. It looks at the complexities of migration,
displacement and the pursuit of the elusive
DVD Rental: $75/DVD Sale: $225 “American dream”.
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mr. AhmeD
Terence Grace, 1994, 52 min leAving bAkul bAgAn
A drama of an Indian living in a small Sandeep Ray, 1994, 45 min
American town. As memories of a home Torn between familial and national loyalties
and family left behind seep to the surface, and her desire to experience personal free-
the clash of the old and the new world doms this doc records one young woman’s
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