Debbie Lum

샌프란시스코의 가장 학구열이 높은 공립학교 Lowell 고등학교의 고학년생들은 어마어마한 스트레스를 받는 중이다. 이들은 스탠포드 대학교나 하버드 대학교 같은 최고상류 학교로 진학하기 위해 공부에만 매진하고 있다. 멋진 아이들과 특출난 학생들 사이에서 같이 공부해 좋은 성적을 얻기란 쉽지가 않다. 감독 Debbie Lum은 재치넘치는 유머와 따뜻한 시선으로 미국 대학입시계의 현실을 들여다본 이후 미국 교육현 내에서의 인종 문제, 계급 문제까지 고찰하게 한다. 이 영화는 현 미국 10대 세대의 가장 보편적이면서도 다채로운 청소년들의 초상화와도 같은 다큐멘터리다.

샌프란시스코의 가장 학구열이 높은 공립학교 Lowell 고등학교의 고학년생들은 어마어마한 스트레스를 받는 중이다. 이들은 스탠포드 대학교나 하버드 대학교 같은 최고상류 학교로 진학하기 위해 공부에만 매진하고 있다. 멋진 아이들과 특출난 학생들 사이에서 같이 공부해 좋은 성적을 얻기란 쉽지가 않다. 감독 Debbie Lum은 재치넘치는 유머와 따뜻한 시선으로 미국 대학입시계의 현실을 들여다본 이후 미국 교육현 내에서의 인종 문제, 계급 문제까지 고찰하게 한다. 이 영화는 현 미국 10대 세대의 가장 보편적이면서도 다채로운 청소년들의 초상화와도 같은 다큐멘터리다.

Seeking Asian Female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates with skepticism and humor, from the early stages of Steven’s search, through the moment Sandy steps foot in California for the first time, to a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American relations and the perennial battle of the sexes, weigh in on the fate of their marriage in this intimate and quirky personal documentary.

Seeking Asian Female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates with skepticism and humor, from the early stages of Steven’s search, through the moment Sandy steps foot in California for the first time, to a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American relations and the perennial battle of the sexes, weigh in on the fate of their marriage in this intimate and quirky personal documentary.

Seeking Asian Female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates with skepticism and humor, from the early stages of Steven’s search, through the moment Sandy steps foot in California for the first time, to a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American relations and the perennial battle of the sexes, weigh in on the fate of their marriage in this intimate and quirky personal documentary.

Seeking Asian Female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates with skepticism and humor, from the early stages of Steven’s search, through the moment Sandy steps foot in California for the first time, to a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American relations and the perennial battle of the sexes, weigh in on the fate of their marriage in this intimate and quirky personal documentary.

This diaristic documentary follows Sokly Ny, an under-priveledged and under-represented immigrant minority student, through his final year of high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ny, A.K.A. Don Bonus, provides commentary on his life, recounting the difficulty and triumph of his everyday experience. The drama builds to a crescendo as the day of his graduation ceremonies corresponds with the criminal trial of his brother.