BAAFF Bonus Mini-Series - More Liberty & Justice
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BAAFF is back for an bonus mini-series. Join us December 1-9 to experience compelling documentaries while supporting the local Asian American community--especially our network in Lowell!
In honor of ArtsEmerson's production of Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia - DEC 19 - 20, this December series will feature a mini-retrospective of the internationally renowned filmmaker Rithy Panh in both Boston and Lowell. We will also celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Angkor Dance Troupe with a screening of the The Monkey Dance with a special follow up piece on where the dancers are now. 
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 | Paramount Center
6:30pm Island Soldier *9pm S21 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 | Paramount Center 11:00am AARW's Annual Meeting (with lunch) 1:00pm Boston Immigration Stories Project Launch 3:30pm The Chinese Exclusion Act 8pm The Monkey Dance (Directed by Julie Mallozzi) SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 | Paramount Center 1:30pm The Apology - Community *4:30pm The Missing Picture / L'image manquante MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 | Middlesex Community College *3pm The Land of the Wandering Souls [FREE EVENT] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 | Pearl Harbor Day | Old South Meeting House 6:30pm Exclusion, Internment and Today (screening excerpt of Chinese Exclusion Act, reading from Lyric's Hold These Truths, and discussion on Cambodian/SEA deportations today) [FREE EVENT] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9 | Lowell High School *2pm First They Killed My Father [FREE EVENT] * = Rithy Panh mini-retrospective | ||
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Island Soldier
Friday, December 1, 6:30PM
The Paramount Center (559 Washington St) 85 mins | Documentary | Directed by Nathan Fitch ISLAND SOLDIER is the untold story of Micronesian citizens fighting America's wars. The film follows members of the Nena family from one of the most remote islands in the world to the training grounds of Texas and the battlefields in Afghanistan. It is an emotional gathering of two families, from opposite sides of the world, brought together by loss, love and honor. A remote archipelago of hundreds of tiny volcanic islands in the western Pacific, The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is an independent nation of 100,000 citizens, and a protectorate of the United States. In recent years, the country has become a “recruiter’s paradise” for the U.S. military, especially since 9/11. Yet they have lost fives times more soldiers, per capita, than any U.S. state. The film captures a tightly knit island community — a microcosm of economic, social and political change, as the high price for military service in a foreign nation’s wars cuts deep. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | WATCH TRAILER |
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S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Friday, December 1, 9:00PM
The Paramount Center (559 Washington St) 101 mins | Documentary | Directed by Rithy Panh A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards. WATCH TRAILER |
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AARW Annual Membership MeetingSaturday, December 2, 11 AM - 12:30 PM
Pao Arts Center (99 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02111) Join us for AARW's annual meeting. Come learn more about our parent organizations, AARW's, work last year and their upcoming plans for 2018 whether you're a longtime member or just learning about the organization! At this meeting, members will also be voting in new AARW board members, and will participate in an activity to capture AARW's mission, vision, values! MORE INFO | WEBSITE |
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Boston Immigration Stories Project LaunchSaturday, December 2, 1 PM - 2:30 PM
Pao Arts Center (99 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02111) Please join us on Dec. 2 for a “story slam” featuring several Asian undocumented immigrants sharing their migration experiences. This timely event will shed light on the realities of Asian undocumented immigrants, who make up of 28.5% of the total undocumented population in MA. It will also focus on some of the work that we’ve been collaborating on with local and national groups in the Cambodian and Vietnamese communities, which have been targeted for deportation in recent ICE raids. Food and refreshments will be served. If you would like more information and/or have any questions, please feel free to reach out to kevin@aarw.org. WEBSITE |
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Saturday, December 2, 3:30PM
The Paramount Center (559 Washington St) 160 mins | Documentary | Directed by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu This film underscores important connections between the Chinese Exclusion Act and the history of US immigration. By examining the socio-economic and geo-political forces that led to the Act, the film uncovers its unmistakable and wide-ranging consequences on national attitudes towards race, culture, politics, and society. WEBSITE | WATCH TRAILER |
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Monkey Dance 
Saturday, December 2, 8:00PM
The Paramount Center (559 Washington St) 75 mins | Documentary | Directed by Julie Mallozzi Q&A with director Julie Mallozzi and subject. MONKEY DANCE is a documentary film about three teens coming of age in Lowell, Massachusetts. Children of Cambodian refugees, they inhabit a tough, working class world shadowed by their parents' nightmares of the Khmer Rouge. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parents' culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and good times often pull harder. For the parents, Lowell held the hope of safety, employment, and a chance to finally rebuild some of what was shattered by the Khmer Rouge. But for their children, the city offers a dizzying array of choices - many of them risky. Monkey Dance is the story of how three kids navigate the confusing landscape of urban adolescence and ultimately start to make good on their parents' dreams. Original film plus 10 minute “Where are they now” follow up. WEBSITE | WATCH TRAILER |
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The Apology 
Sunday, December 3, 1:30PM
The Paramount Center (559 Washington St) 104 mins | Documentary | Directed by Tiffany Hsiung The Apology explores the lives of former "comfort women", the more than 200,000 girls forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Today, they fight for reconciliation and justice as they struggle to make peace with the past. Some 70 years after their imprisonment in so-called "comfort stations", the three "grandmothers-Grandma Gil in South Korea, Grandma Cao in China, and Grandma Adela in the Philippines-face their twilight years in fading health. Whether they are seeking a formal apology from the Japanese government or summoning the courage to finally share their secret with loved ones, their resolve moves them forward as they seize this last chance to set future generations on a course for reconciliation, healing, and justice. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | WATCH TRAILER |
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The Missing Picture 
Sunday, December 3, 4:30PM
The Paramount Center (559 Washington St) 92 mins | Documentary | Directed by Rithy Panh The Missing Picture is a 2013 Cambodian-French documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge. The film was the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards and was nominated. Approximately half of the film is news and documentary footage, while the other half uses clay figurines to recreate what happened in Cambodia when Pol Pot came to power. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | WATCH TRAILER An introduction and short film CPK Wedding Ceremony, Cambodia 1977 by Flying Orb Productions precedes screening. 5 mins, 15 seconds | Documentary | Co-directed by Linda Uch and Jim Higgins with choreography by Chummeng Soun CPK Wedding Ceremony, Cambodia 1977 was conceived after reading a 2016 New York Times story about the United Nations-backed tribunal investigating the crimes of the Khmer Rouge including thousands of forced marriage ceremonies between 1975 and 1979. Many Cambodian women and men were telling their story for the first time. In the words of one woman identified only as 2-TCCP-274 to protect her identity, "...who could I tell? If I told anyone, I would be dead. Nobody could help me." |
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FREE EVENT
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Thursday, December 7, 6:30PM
Old South Meeting House (310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108) (screening excerpt of Chinese Exclusion Act, reading from Lyric's Hold These Truths, and discussion on Cambodian/SEA deportations today) What does a little-known 1882 law have to do with American identity, democracy, and civil rights today? Through powerful and illuminating visuals, historical documents, testimonies and insights of leading scholars and experts, The Chinese Exclusion Act documentary explores the history of Chinese immigration to the United States and its significance to issues of globalization, immigration, labor and civil rights today. On the eve of Pearl Harbor Day, come see an excerpt from The Chinese Exclusion Act and engage in a discussion about The Chinese Exclusion Act and it’s impact on immigration history through today. Panelists still to be announced. Hosted by Chinese Historical Society of New England and Old South Meeting House WEBSITE |
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