Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The entry of Cambodians in the United States was not simply a migration, but a crash-landing as refugees after an incredible loss of population, humanity, culture & arts, religion, and thinkers. How, then, do the diasporic inheritors of this history respond via cultural production? And how does artist-scholar Sokunthary Svay’s own work including her newly published memoir, Put It On Record, address this question?
Join Thirdworld Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening and discussion of the documentary “In Search of Bengali Harlem,” with director and author Vivek Bald.
Join Third World Newsreel with MU Films, Nodutdol, and the Documentary Forum at CCNY to view films about the human toll and tense situation on the Korean peninsula and hear from activists, scholars and filmmakers on what’s at stake, and what people are still doing today for peace and reunification.
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening of CROSSINGS, and panel discussion to learn about the making of the film and the effort to press for peaceful talks instead of sanctions and military threats.
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for an online discussion of the PBS documentary, Plague at the Golden Gate, with producer/director, Li-Shin Yu, including the making of this film, its significance now, and her own path from editing to leading a film.
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening of the documentary, Resistance at Tule Lake, on those who resisted the illegal imprisonment during World War II, and afterwards hear from the director, Japanese American Konrad Aderer.