MOCA Cinema: Spotlight on Women Filmmakers

Wednesday, March 1 - Friday, March 10, 2023
Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013
Free Admission | Suggested Donation: $10

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MOCA Cinema: Spotlight on Women Filmmakers continues for the second week with a series of film screenings that celebrate Asian American women filmmakers and their incredible works. Seize the last opportunities to watch Christine Choy’s Who Killed Vincent Chin? and The Architects of Camellia as well as the shorts collection, including Lulu Wang's short film Touch, and other shorts by emerging filmmakers, including Shu-Ying Chung, Rachel Lin, and Reena Dutt. This collection pays closer attention to the Asian American life experiences while offering a critical look at today’s society.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 9
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: Shorts Collection (Touch/Great Listener/Found/Removable)

Touch
Lulu Wang | 2015 | 15 mins | Featured Short
An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behavior understood. Like her feature film, Farewell, Lulu Wang shows great compassion through her lens on the subject of cultural clashes in this earlier short.

Great Listener
Rachel Lin & Tristan Nash | 2022 | 5 minutes | Featured Short
An Asian American actress finds herself auditioning for the role of a great listener, she is forced to reckon with the real-life consequences of this pervasive typecasting. Producer and Writer Rachel Lin captures the Asian American community’s struggles in today’s society through a very intimate story.

Found
Reena Dutt | 2022 | 10 mins | Featured Short
Tabitha is stuck between two worlds. When the Artistic Director of her theatre company tokenizes her for his Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiative, she faces her reality of living in two skins as a Korean adoptee.

Removable
Shu-Ying Chung | 2022 | 15 mins | Featured Short
Removable offers a particularly empathetic look into an Asian immigrant’s struggles with guilt after calling the police on her abusive husband, which results in his deportation. Removable has won 17 awards, including Best Short, Best Director, and Best Actress at film festivals across the world.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Who Killed Vincent Chin?

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Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Christine Choy & Renne Tajima- Peña | 1987 | 87 minutes | Documentary
An important reminder of a past that is still relevant in today’s America, Who Killed Vincent Chin?, a surgical documentary directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña, recounts the murder of a Chinese-American automotive engineer, Vincent Chin, in a racially motivated hate crime followed by the troubling outcome of the judicial system. Who Killed Vincent Chin? was nominated for Best Documentary by the Academy Awards in 1989.

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