CENTERPIECE: Love, Chinatown (preceded by Shorts: Building Our Histories)

Name: CENTERPIECE: Love, Chinatown (preceded by Shorts: Building Our Histories)
Start: 2025-10-17T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Paramount Center

Schedule

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Paramount Center | Boston, MA

Building Our Histories spotlights stories of creating and maintaining API spaces from Boston’s Chinatown to communities around the globe.
Total Runtime: 74 minutes
Love, Chinatown | Teb Chaw (Land) | Beauty of Sorrow |
Dear Watsonville | Little Bird

Love, Chinatown [CENTERPIECE DOCUMENTARY]
Directed by Lukas Dong
Documentary | 18 Mins | World Premiere
Chinatown resident Cynthia Yee embarks on an open-hearted walking tour of Boston’s Historic Chinatown in all its vibrancy—extending a discerning welcome to neighborhood newcomers while boldly confronting the community’s past trauma with the help of an unexpected local compatriot: bright-eyed undergrad, Gwen.
Teb Chaw (Land)
Directed by Joua Lee Grande
Documentary | 11 mins | English, Hmong | New England Premiere
An immersive portrait of Hmong refugee farmers transforming local foodways in a diversified Minnesota–home to one of the largest populations of the Hmong diaspora built in the aftermath of the Secret War in Laos.
Advisory: Discussions of war
Beauty of Sorrow
Directed by Josh Park
Narrative | 14 mins | English, Korean, Japanese | East Coast Premiere
As she cares for her ailing mother, a peasant woman tells the story of three men who perpetrated Korea’s national grief.
Dear Watsonville
Directed by Sandra Lucille
Documentary | 17 mins | English | New England Premiere
“Dear Watsonville” is a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the manong generation, the first generation of Filipino migrants to arrive en masse to the U.S., as seen through the eyes of their children. It unfolds in three distinct vignettes, each focusing on the migration stories and day-to-day experiences of three Filipino families.
Little Bird
Directed by Oanh-Nhi Nguyen
Narrative | 15 mins | Boston Premiere
Amidst 1980s Los Angeles, Linh Tran, a disheartened Vietnamese woman tasked with evictions, uncovers the harsh reality of displacing fellow Vietnamese refugees. Struggling with the choice to keep her job or stand in solidarity with those she’s meant to uproot, her moral dilemma deepens as she befriends a little Vietnamese girl caught in the midst of it all.