Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Voices With Impact supports emerging and established filmmakers in creating films that explore underrepresented topics in mental health, which are then used in educational programs to educate young people, increasing awareness and decreasing stigma. Each year we offer $7.5k production grants to 10 filmmaking teams.
This presentation is on Prof. Ying Zhu’s documentary about the pioneering Chinese educational filmmaker Sun Mingjing. Sun’s documentaries marked a pinnacle of China’s non-fiction film production in the 1930-40s yet, up until the early 2000s, his name was scarcely mentioned in film history books in China and his films were mostly unknown to the generation … Read more