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About us: The Asian American Association Film Festival is made up of University of California, Davis students who seek to promote Asian American awareness through visual media. Our mission > The UC Davis Asian American Association seeks to counteract the mainstream media’s stereotypical and jilted portrayals of Asia, Asians, and Asian-Americans by showcasing films made by Asian-Americans and with films from Asia. These films will tell stories too often ignored and untold as well as fight the one-dimensional portrayals of Asians in the mainstream media. Thus this film festival was started in order to promote authentic and alternative cultural productions. We want to show a different side of the Asian American experience and lend a more dimensional and a more human scope to our experiences. A stereotype is basically anything that is a one-dimensional portrayal. For people of Asian descent in America, the stereotypes given to us have typically been those of being foreign in a bad way, of helpless people, especially women, needing to be rescued by an "enlightened" western perspective, of being hypersexual women or asexual men, as supernerds, of being a model minority that needs no help, etc. The bottom line is that stereotypes Asian stereotypes, as well as those for other peoples of color are numerous, but consistently ridiculous. We want to promote more human and more complex images of Asians and to educate people about our diverse situations and histories with our film festival. We’re not trying to push for an idea of a perfect and positive portrayal, but rather that of a three-dimensional one, a real one.We hope the film festival will empower and inspire young Asian-Americans by allowing them to see a side of themselves on rarely shown on the silver screen. Through the powerful medium of film, we will also give others just a small glimpse of Asia, Asians and Asian-Americans, and some of our struggles, triumphs, and histories. We hope everyone will go watch, enjoy, and learn, especially in the support of greater cultural and social awareness and for greater APA empowerment—the goal of the Asian American Association.
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Location: 194 Chemistry Times: Tuesday, May 13th: 7:00pm |