CENTURIES AND STILL SHORT FILM
TW: Violence,Gunshot Audio
Subtitled in Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and English Caption
TW: Violence,Gunshot Audio
Writer Director Sally Tran
Production Lucky Together
Producers Phuong Vo, Ditte Ravnild
“Centuries and Still” is a mixed media illustrated short film telling the history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S. The film seeks to unveil how history took part in the birth and perpetuation of today’s surge of anti-Asian discrimination and hate crimes. The search for justice goes back to the Gold Rush era fetishization of Asian women, to today’s hate crimes targeting Asian elders.
The film is made by an awesome group of API creatives such as cinematographer Isabella Tan whose work include Lola (2018) and Souvenirs (2020), and illustrator Nhung Le whose work has been featured on The New York Times and The New Yorker Magazine. By coming together in this project, the team wants to celebrate our universal community through telling our story of the Asian diaspora in America, while directing support to AAPI-led organizations fighting for social justice.
60 YEARS AND STILL SHORT FILM
Director Writer Producer Sally Tran
Executive Producers Side Projects Films
This table top, mixed media short film covers six decades of race and injustice in America through ten incidents of Black lives taken by police. Some of these incidents sparked national media coverage and furious uprisings across the country, while others didn’t get the attention they deserved.
This disregard for Black lives has been consistent since enslaved Africans first arrived in America in 1619. This film highlights just a brief moment in the long history of injustice, specifically police brutality, against African Americans. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. called for the end of racism and injustice against Black people in the US. Yet in 2020, history continues to repeat itself before our very eyes. It’s time for change.