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When East meets East

When an aspiring Chinese actress is told in an audition "You should be more Chinese," she is confused. What exactly does it mean to be "more Chinese" for people of Asian descent who have relocated to or were born in North America? This genre-breaking documentary explores the issues of ethnic and cultural identity through interviews with some of today's most prominent Asian and Chinese American filmmakers, actors and actresses in the United States, Canada, Taiwan and China.

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  • "When an aspiring Chinese actress is told in an audition "You should be more Chinese," she is confused. What exactly does it mean to be "more Chinese" for people of Asian descent who have relocated to or were born in North America? This genre-breaking documentary explores the issues of ethnic and cultural identity through interviews with some of today's most prominent Asian and Chinese American filmmakers, actors and actresses in the United States, Canada, Taiwan and China."
  • "When an aspiring Chinese actress is told in an audition "You should be more Chinese," she is confused. What exactly does it mean to be "more Chinese" for people of Asian descent who have relocated to or were born in North America? This genre-breaking documentary explores the issues of ethnic and cultural identity through interviews with some of today's most prominent Asian and Chinese American filmmakers, actors and actresses in the United States, Canada, Taiwan and China."@en
  • "Features the cinemas of Chinese filmmakers living outside China. Explores post-colonial identity in the Chinese diaspora through an international retrospective of films, which includes an original adaptation of Jeffrey Paul Chan's short story, "The Chinese in Haifa". Using a double voice technique a Canadian filmmaker and a student activist from China's democracy movement question the taken-for-granted identity within ethnic communities, weaving a geographic and cultural reality that is uniquely contradictory and inhabited by multiple identities living outside national boundaries."

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  • "Interviews"
  • "Interviews"@en
  • "Documentaries and factual films and videos"
  • "Documentary films"
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Nonfiction films"

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  • "When East meets East a documentary about the new Chinese cinema of Nineties"
  • "When East meets East"
  • "When East meets East"@en