08/05/2026
Join us May 13 for an evening of short films at the Academy Museum — in person: Academy Governor Chris Tashima, and filmmakers Andrew Ahn (Wedding Banquet, Fire Island), Nazrin Choudhury (Red, White and Blue), John Chu (Wicked, Crazy Rich Asians), and Arthur D**g (Hollywood Chinese, Forbidden City, USA).
Tickets: https://www.academymuseum.org/programs/detail/an-evening-of-short-films-from-asian-american-filmmakers-019be210-a94b-d065-dfac-b8b273f32904
Program notes: The Academy is celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage month with this selection of short films featuring Asian American filmmakers and stories. The evening includes two animated films, Ishu Patel’s Oscar-nominated Bead Game (1977), and Soar (2014), from filmmaker Alyce Tzue. Arthur D**g’s Oscar-nominated documentary short, Sewing Woman (1982), tells the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, while Sean Wang (Dìdi) was nominated for his documentary Nai Nai & Wài Pó (2023), depicting the close friendship of his elderly grandmothers. Jon M. Chu (Wicked, 2024) won a DGA Student Film Award for his musical short Gwai Lo: The Little Foreigner (2002). Filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Fire Island, 2022) made his short film Dol (First Birthday, 2011) partly as a way of coming out to his parents. Masami Kawai’s Nami (2015) depicts a day in the life of a grieving widow in her journey across Los Angeles. In Amrita Singh’s Winning in America (2021), a teenage girl faces the challenges of a spelling bee and her coach father.
