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Who is Albert Woo?

Inspired by his grandfather, director Hunt Hoe embarks on a search for Asian role models and discovers that the Asian men he encounters don't conform to the stereotypical martial arts movie star or stoic intellectual.

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  • "Inspired by his grandfather, director Hunt Hoe embarks on a search for Asian role models and discovers that the Asian men he encounters don't conform to the stereotypical martial arts movie star or stoic intellectual."@en
  • "Inspired by his grandfather, director Hunt Hoe embarks on a search for Asian role models and discovers that the Asian men he encounters don't conform to the stereotypical martial arts movie star or stoic intellectual."
  • ""Director Hunt Hoe is seeeking true-to-life role models in an effort to figure out what it really means to be an Asian man living in the West today. ... Through interviews with Jackie Chan and other modern Asian men, this thought-provoking program examines the way identities are shaped by the media, history, and cultural legacy, and considers to what extent reductive stereotypes, such as the Yellow Peril and the martial arts master, distort reality."--Container."
  • "Director Hunt Hoe searches for Asian role models to get a modern sense of what it means to be an Asian man in the West. Who is Albert Woo? examines the way identities are shaped by the media, history and cultural legacy, and to what extent such representations distort reality."@en
  • "Canadian documentary by Malaysian-born filmaker Hunt Hoe. What is an Asian man? He could be from Pakistan, Japan, India, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, even Russia. In this program, Hoe looks at the stereotypes attached to Asian men and the role models which they adopt. He interviews an interesting cross-section of men from different age groups, occupations and sexual inclinations from various Asian backgrounds as well as interviews with Cecilia Cristobal, a Filipina-Canadian actor, who gives voice to the issues faced by Asian women and Jackie Chan, who explains the values he grew up with and his opinion on Asian male stereotyping."@en
  • "Looks at stereotypes attached to Asian men in Canada and the US and the role models which they adopt. Interviews men from different age groups, occupations and sexual inclinations from various Asian backgrounds. Jackie Chan airs his views on Asian male stereotyping."

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  • "Who is Albert Woo?"
  • "Who is Albert WOO?"
  • "Who's Albert Woo"@en