East Asian Lead Filmes

In US society, people of East Asian heritage are often perceived through an obscuring lens of ethnic and cultural stereotypes. In STOLEN GROUND, six...

The Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple had an opportunity to take part in an episode of East of Main Street, an HBO documentary series that has been...

Following a tumultuous breakup, a young college student tries to win back her ex-girlfriend by performing in a confessional-style poetry slam.

17-year-old Jane begins to embrace her background and rekindle her relationship with her mother when she becomes immersed in Chinese culture at her...

A perfumer and a little tyrant... these two women learn together what courage and justice is.

In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in...

Yan Hao, a violinist, gets into an accident causing her to be temporarily blind. Frustrated and shocked, a blessing comes as a woman suddenly tries...

When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a social justice "safe space," she must choose between...

A talented young painter disguises herself as a boy. She finds herself a darling muse to which she starts to fall for.

She who plays all day long, either being lazy or stealing food, it is impossible to practice well... And then she who seems to be strict, but is, in...

A woman comes back home after studying abroad.

Shasha, a long-haired heterosexual girl, was accidentally brought into the sensory world between girls by the short-haired girl Yuzi. All of this...

A celebration of love and marriage between two women.

They try to uncover the secret behind the three mysterious eggs.

A Yakuza hitman travels to North America for his 27th job, only to find lingering memories of lost love through a chance encounter with a beautiful...

Renee Tajima-Peña takes to the road to investigate questions about Asian-American identity.

A filmmaker explores the life of her 100-year-old great-aunt, Jane Chung, an actress who made a career for herself at a time when Asian Americans...

A political secretary visits their cousin in hopes to understand why certain policies threaten that family member's way of life.