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Role: Editor, Co-Producer
Director: David Siev
Producers: Jude Harris, Diane Moy Quon, Jeff Tremaine, Daniel Dae Kim, David Siev, Katarina Vasquez
Editors: Peter Wagner, Rosie Walunas
Distributor: IFC Films
Runtime: 100 minutes
95th Oscars Shortlist ‘Best Documentary Feature’
Festivals: SXSW 2022, FREEP, Milwaukee Film Fest, North by North, Cinema Columbus, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, KC Film Fest, Mountainfilm, CAAM Fest, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival,
Awards: Critics Choice: Best First Documentary Feature, ‘SXSW Special Jury award for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling’, ‘SXSW Audience Award’, ‘CAAM Documentary Award Honorable Mention’, ‘Freep Film Festival Audience Award’, ‘2022 Best Documentary Feature: Mountainfilm’,
Press/Reviews: Roger Ebert, Hollywood Reporter, Rotten Tomatoes, Deadline, Austin Chronicle, Culture Vulture, Collider, The Moveable Feast, Hammer To Nail, The Daily Texan, In Their Own League, Screen Zealots, Film Book, The Spool
After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of Bad Axe, MI at the start of the pandemic, an Asian-American filmmaker documents his family's struggles to keep their restaurant open. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to the Cambodian Killing Fields unearth between the family's patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage in America, the family uses their voice to speak out in their town where Trumpism runs deep. What unfolds is a real-time portrait of 2020 through the lens of this multicultural family’s fight to keep their American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and the trauma of having survived a genocide.