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The Paradise We Are Looking For (2019)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 30M

Director : Joseph Mangat, Norbert Shieh, Quyen Nguyen Le, R.J. Lozada

Synopsis

San Diego has been called many things – including a paradise. It’s also a refugee city, a cluster of neighborhoods, a militarized zone, a border town. And Asian American. This collection of four short documentaries, commissioned on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, maps many such San Diego’s – across ethnicity, geography and history. At the same time, they hold on to some notion of paradise, however illusory: a haven from war, the dreams of an immigrant, precious teenage reminiscences, solace in the afterlife, and spaces for creative expression.

Actors

Crews

Joseph Mangat
Joseph Mangat
Director
Norbert Shieh
Norbert Shieh
Director
Quyen Nguyen Le
Quyen Nguyen Le
Director
R.J. Lozada
R.J. Lozada
Director