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You are here: Home / Archives for Sundance Film Festival

Asian American jab at Oscars reveals deeper diversity woes

March 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Lynn Elber Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — TV’s “Fresh Off the Boat” creator Nahnatchka Khan was reveling in Oscar host Chris Rock’s deft comedic assault on white-fixated Hollywood. Then three Asian American kids were brought onstage for a gag mocking them as ethnic stereotypes. “It’s like going on a road trip with your […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Allison Ng, Angry Asian Man, Asian Americans, Asian Pacific American Media Coalition, Biola University, Black Americans, Chris Rock, Constance Yu, Daniel Mayeda, Emma Stone, Jason Lew, Nahnatchka Khan, Nancy Wang Yuen, Presenter Sacha Baron Cohen, Sundance Film Festival, TV, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18

Film shows what life in a wheelchair is like

June 27, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sue Misao Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle is ranked number one among most livable U.S. cities for wheelchair users, according to a 2010 study by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Christopher Reeve, who died in 2004, was the actor best known for his lead roles in many of the “Superman” movies. In 1995, he […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2010, 2014, Christopher Dana Reeve Foundation, Christopher Reeve, East Africa, India, KCTS, Northwest Asian Weekly, PBS, POV, Seattle, South Asian, Sundance Film Festival, Vol 33 No 27 | June 28 - July 4

Living his dream, Japanese American singer makes screen debut

August 9, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly I met Tomo Nakayama shortly after 9/11 at Seattle’s Varsity Theatre where I was reviewing a movie and he was letting the critics

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2013, Andrew Hamlin, Grand Hallway, Japanese American, Judy Garland, Lynn Shelton, MTV, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Sundance Film Festival, Tokyo, Tomo Nakayama, Touchy Feely, United States, Varsity Theatre, Vol 32 No 33 | August 10 - August 16

Seattle-based Jazz pop artist Emi Meyer hosts sold out single release party at O’Asian

December 10, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Jazz pop performer Emi Meyer hosted the release for her newest single, Galaxy’s Skirt, at O’Asian in Seattle on Friday, Nov. 30, playing to a sold-out crowd. The single was released on iTunes on Nov. 28. Meyer, born in Kyoto, Japan to an American father and Japanese mother, grew up in Seattle and began studying […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, Emi Meyer, Japanese Jazz, Seattle Kobe Jazz Vocalist Competition, Seattle-based Jazz, Sundance Film Festival, Vol 31 No 50 | December 8 - December 14

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