This POV Playlist is brought to you by guest curator Robert Y. Chang, coordinating producer for America ReFramed. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (2020) by Cathy Park Hong served as an inspiration for this playlist.
027: Minor Feelings
What's your name? Where are you from? For Korean-born filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem these questions catalyze a journeythrough her pasttoward a new understanding of family.
On sister series America ReFramed, a notorious 11-time Jeopardy winner takes to twitter challenging the racism and sexism in a society that has sought to marginalize him. What can you accomplisheven if you fall short?
“My life has value,” Jennifer Laude once declared. Three women invested in the case of her murder spark a political uprising while untethering sedimented histories of U.S. imperialism.
On sister series America ReFramed, filmmaker Nadia Shihab searches for unexpected moments of meaning in the everyday. A subtle weaving of threads between past and present, her mother’s work and her own. Culture and identity both inherited and reimagined. A special sneak peek for POV Playlist subscribers.
ASIAN AMERICANS, a five-part documentary that will air on PBS beginning May 11 and 12, explores through individual lives and personal histories the impact Asian Americans have had on the country, and how they continue to influence society and culture. Stream the series here starting tonight.
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