2018 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display their creative works.

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2017 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

2017 Winners & Runner-ups Fiction Film Winner: Day at Textile Factory Nicky Zou (Hunter College) Runner-Up: Powder Room Kevin Oliver Arota (Brooklyn College) Documentary Film Winner: Decoding Darkmatter Crystal Waterton (Hunter College) Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: CUNY Graduate Center – Martin E. Segal Theatre 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street), Manhattan Since 2004, … Read more

NYC Earthquakes: Fact or Fiction?

Geologists and seismologists generally agree that earthquakes produce dislocations known as faults and that preexisting faults tend to localize new earthquakes. The bedrock of New York City, always considered to be solid and impervious to seismic activity, is cut by a great number of brittle faults which belong to two contrasting sets oriented NE and … Read more

Remembrance: Molding Chinese History into Fiction

My novels, to date, are all based in Chinese history, and so my talk will revolve around the following: My own background and why I feel writing Chinese (or Chinese-American) historical novels is important My first novel, Sons of Heaven My second novel, Deep in the Mountains My third novel, Little Flower Research and creative … Read more

Naming out Grief: Three Refugee Tales, Fact & Fiction

One of the latest debates taking place on the streets and in the country’s most respected newsrooms is whether to call victims of recent the hurricane refugees. Some say that the word is insulting. It implies that the evacuees, so many of whom were people of color, are not citizens. Author Andrea Louie contends that … Read more