What it’s about: The short film, entitled “Centuries and Still,” unveils the “search for justice [that] goes back to the Gold Rush era fetishization of Asian women, to today’s hate crimes targeting Asian elders.”
“Asian American hate is as old as American history,” the film narrates. It portrays some of the historical events that took part in the birth and perpetuation of anti-Asian discrimination and hate crimes that are still happening to this day.
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VIETNAMESE FILMMAKERS CREATE VISUALLY STUNNING SHORT ABOUT AAPI HATE BEING AS OLD AS AMERICAN HISTORY – by Michelle De Pacina for NextShark
Project AWR 