Category: Documentary
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Help Bring Love Chaos Kin to Your City!
I am back with an update after a long time. As Love Chaos Kin wraps up its film festival run this Summer into Fall, we are actively planning distribution for the film. So, if you have been asking for a screening in your state/city/town or a way to watch the film from the comfort of…
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Serenading The Fandom: Forever We Are Young
Last night my three daughters and I sat in a smallish theater surrounded by fellow BTS fans and watched BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young, a documentary on the global fandom that is the BTS ARMY. A few months ago when this well made documentary premiered at SXSW, my interest was piqued. I figured I…
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Behind the Camera: Crafting Our Family Story on Film
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be the subject in a documentary? Here’s your inside look.
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Love Chaos Kin: East Coast Premiere in Brooklyn, NYC
Love Chaos Kin had a euphoric start in San Francisco. Now, it is headed to Brooklyn, New York City. It will have its east coast premiere there as part of the Brooklyn Film Festival. So, if you live within driving distance of Brooklyn, come out and support us on May 31st at 7:00 pm. Link…
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Documentary Premiere: Love, Chaos, Kin at CAAMFest 2025
The documentary on our family premieres at the CAAMFest on May 11th. The screening is at 2:00 pm at the AMC Kabuki 1 theater in Japantown, San Francisco.
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Seven Years in the Making: A Raw and Intimate Film Journey
I woke early in anticipation of what this day could mean. Will Chithra come? Will I finally get to see the film that has been seven years in the making? What story will Chithra show? How will I be perceived? The questions were many and my stomach felt unsettled. I worked half heartedly before I…
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Daughters Of Destiny – Some Thoughts
This docu-series has been on my watchlist for over a year now. I finally caught up on it over the weekend. The four plus hour long series traces five girls as they grow up under the spotlight. The youngest child is four and the older ones in high school. They are chosen to go to…
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Our Daughters Update: CAAM Media Fund Awardee
Our Daughters, the documentary that has been almost two years in the making now is a recipient of the CAAM Media Fund. In their words. CAAM is supporting six new documentaries through our Media Fund department. CAAM funds documentaries and projects made by or about Asian Americans that are intended for public media. This includes…
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Protagonists In Our Story
I chew thoughtfully, very aware of the camera’s gaze on me. I try and ignore its presence. Sometimes I am successful. I go about my day aware of a third unseeing eye in the house. My children color on pages, the camera a benign presence. They chat about inane things. Sometimes, they say something profound.…
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Documentary Update
A while ago I wrote about Chithra the filmmaker who was interested in making a documentary on open adoption featuring our family. I haven’t shared much before this because there was nothing much to say. At this point, the working title of the film is Our Daughters which seems very fitting to our situation. If…