Asian Pacific American Voices and Readings: Media

List compiled by Sheena Yap Chan, who runs a podcast called The Tao Of Self Confidence. http://thetaoofselfconfidence.com

"Asian Not Asian is a weekly comedy podcast with hosts Fumi Abe (Comedy Central) and Mic Nguyen (Mcsweeney's). Our elevator pitch is this: Two Asian guys not from Asia talking about American issues no American cares about. "

"This podcast is the brainchild of Tony Nagatani and Kevin Xu, two former staffers of (a lot of) political campaigns and the Obama White House. We just happen to be Asian American. Since our humble beginning in 2017, our voices have been featured in the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and NBC Asian America."

"Rock the Boat co-founders Lucia Liu and Lynne Guey initially started Rock the Boat to make sense of their own zigzag career journeys. Both were at a crossroads in their mid-level careers, so they set out to interview other Asian Americans about their career paths with the hopes of finding greater meaning and purpose in their work. What started as strictly “professional” conversations quickly became conversations about other Asian American issues like mental health, the bamboo ceiling, affirmative action, interracial dating, our role in civic/public life and much more. Ultimately, they discovered that people were thirsty for candid dialogue that went well beyond that of their careers."

"Southern Fried Asian is a new podcast from The Nerds of Color hosted by Keith Chow. Typically, stories about Asian Americans are centered on the experiences of those who grew up on the coasts -- New York, Southern California, the Bay Area -- where communities of different Asian American subgroups have lived for many years. On this podcast, though, we're gonna look at a region of the country that isn't typically associated with these stories and unpack what it means to be Asian American in the American South."

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite--until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar-wai's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments.

With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong's redoubtable career.

The critically acclaimed, The Missing Picture, a 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film, is filmmaker Rithy Panh's personal quest to re-imagine his childhood memories. From the time when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, the only recorded artifacts that remain are propaganda footage. Panh uses beautifully detailed sculpted clay figurines and elaborate dioramas to recreate the missing images from his memory. His recollections of his family and friends before and after the regime's rule are poignantly told through a narrator's poetic voice. The Missing Picture is a unique documentary that manages to capture a historical moment that would never be told if not for the sheer creative mind of Panh and his innovative storytelling method.