Chinatown Shorts

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09/06/2024

Excited to celebrate with our pals at their annual art festival in Chinatown TOMORROW!! 🥰

📸: Event details including transportation info + more

11/13/2023

Happy to partner with our friends during with matinee *FREE* screenings showcasing films of our beloved community. It’s a full and buzzing week so come out/come in, check out links below to other special Ctown orgs and immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of our vibrant SF Chinatown community!

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07/15/2023

Bay Area friends, if you’re planning out your weekend and looking for inspiration and community joy, our pals are having their theatrical screening at the 4 Star Theater, one of the last remaining locally owned neighborhood theaters in SF. Come through and meet some of their amazing cast and crew after each screening!

: “We are extremely happy to be partnering with the newly renovated 4 Star theater for our upcoming screenings July 14-16. We believe in the importance of independent theaters which play unique and inspiring community films like ours, that large corporate theaters would never show.

Let's show out and support this local treasure!

From SF Chronicle author Heather Knight, in a feature about the 4 Star:
"We can’t expect San Francisco’s quirky small businesses — its movie houses, its bookstores, its galleries and bars — to survive if we don’t support them. We can’t lament the legions of commercial vacancies dotting our neighborhoods and not patronize the small businesses that are toughing it out. We can’t revel in knowing that Green Apple Books and the 4 Star exist in our city, but spend all our cash on Amazon and Netflix."

Chinatown Rising shows at the 4 Star Theater:
July 14: 8pm
July 15: 10am, 8pm
July 16: 1pm

Advance tickets at the 4 Star Theater website

03/09/2023

A long time programmer of Chinatown Shorts, we heart our pals at , one of our fave annual events in SF! “Saving the Far East Cafe” by the lovely and talented is part of their SOLD OUT screenings 🎊CONGRATS🎊 and we are equally excited about all their other incredible programming happening throughout this week! Every year after each of their programs and panels, we feel a deeper connection to community and our beloved city. Staffed by volunteers with a pay what you can ticketing model, is truly a gift that keeps giving 💗

03/02/2023

Dusting off the cobwebs and back online with a fun event TONIGHT with our pals AFTER DARK Series. If you’re in the neighborhood, drop by and check out some Chinatown Shorts: You Are Here films playing throughout the event space and presents our official streaming of artist/designer and his short film “Curiosity Man: The World of Victor Tung” (Dir. Corey Tong, Penelope Wong).

Victor’s film will screen alongside “Becoming Polka Dot” in the fabulous Kanbar Theater main stage with special guests and Victor’s and Dorothy/Polka Dot’s clothing on display throughout the Exploratorium.

We miss you and hope that you and your loved ones are having a great start to your Rabbit Year! Come join if you’re in the city.

After Dark: Extended Cinemas
Thursday March 2, 6-10pm
(Pier 15, Embarcadero, San Francisco)

www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/after-dark-extended-cinemas (link in bio)

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10/20/2022

Frank Jang - Community Photographer
Doc short, 10min, 2022

Frank Jang shares his passion for giving back to the community through his love of photography. For over 20 years, Frank has documented San Francisco and Chinatown with an eye for not just taking pictures, but with the goal of telling the City’s many stories and preserving its history.

Directed by Jeffrey Chin, Jennifer Low

Frank Jang episode is part of Season Three of CHINATOWN SHORTS: You Are Here series (link in bio)

A Good Medicine Picture Company Presentation
Co-presented by SFGovTV

Frank Jang

10/15/2022

Opened in 1920, Far East Cafe is one of the oldest large banquet halls remaining in San Francisco Chinatown after the shuttering of Empress of China, Gold Mountain, and New Asia. Banquet restaurants are historically important both as an economic ecosystem employing staff who live in Chinatown in addition to being a cultural and political institution for the community by hosting thousands of Chinese wedding banquets, family association gatherings, community galas, and political events throughout its one hundred and two-year history. Check out our first episode of Season 3 spotlightng Far East Cafe directed by local filmmaker Emma Marie Chiang and these archival gems from SF Chinatown's banquet halls of the past.

📷: CA Historical Society, UC Berkeley Bancroft, SFPL History Center

10/13/2022

Challenged by a surplus of changes through the years: encroaching gentrification, labor issues, generational shifts in taste & culture, and the impact of Covid-19, the 100+ year old historic Far East Cafe fights to remain open as a central space of community engagement and belonging.

Saving The Far East Cafe, San Francisco Chinatown’s Last Banquet Hall
Doc short, 12min, 2022

Directed by Emma Marie Chiang
Edited by Emma Marie Chiang, Martin Peter Bustamante

Saving Far East Cafe premieres October 12, 2022 as part of the new season of CHINATOWN SHORTS: You Are Here series (link in bio)

A Good Medicine Picture Company Presentation
Co-presented by Chinatown Community Development Center

Series Creator/Produced by James Q. Chan
Co-producer Roy Chan and Erika Gee

09/03/2022

Lenora Lee and her company’s immersive dance performances have created stunning award winning multimedia experiences for the past decade+. Rooted in our community’s lived history of trauma, joy, and redemption, they transmit and transform our shared experiences onto actual buildings and places in SF Chinatown (Donaldina Cameron House, Ping Yuen Housing, YMCA swimming pool (underwater!) and throughout the Bay Area’s public and private spaces (Angel Island Immigration Center), museums, gallery installations, and educational programming across the country. Through music, film, and movement, they open portals and offer multiple entry points for the community to come together to validate the specificity of our individual and our collective stories and we are beyond excited for their latest performance.

“In the Movement” is a heartfelt and explosive dance piece focusing on separation of families and mass detention of immigrants as forms of incarceration. It serves as a meditation on reconciliation and restorative justice, speaking to the power of individuals and communities to transcend.”

Congrats to our dear friends ✨🔥💗✨
We can’t wait to see you this week/end!

For more info and to purchase tickets visit link in

The World Premiere of In the Movement at ODC Theater
9/1-3 | 9/8-10 at 8pm
9/4 | 9/11 at 2pm
*special discount code for 9/2 & 9/3 - use code “VISIONACT”
*NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds)
https://odc.secure.force.com/ticket/?_ga=2.261490446.2020682562.1660686438-979225954.1660580999 #/events/a0S5b00000CTNJYEA5

📸: Lenora Lee Dance, Robbie Sweeny, Lei Chen

08/20/2022

SF Chinatown getting their balloon game on for this weekend! Shops are OPEN so come through and show some 💗 and support. oh my! Make sure to stop by @41.ross to check out exciting art exhibit! Happy weekend!

08/17/2022

Love, survival, resistance, and solidarity. On 17 Wentworth Alley, there sits a heartfelt mural teeming with emotionally rich statements and poem excerpts describing the lived experiences of working people's lives in SF Chinatown.

Designed by Kayan Cheung-Miaw , the mural "Home" essentially represents core aspects of "daily life in Chinatown". Kayan's Tumblr page provides a a brief, but thorough insight into her life as a "mama, artist, organizer, and educator based in North Carolina. Originally from Hong Kong, raised in New York’s Chinatown, Kayan's art aims to humanize those who have been dehumanized by sharing the stories of marginalized communities. As an organizer in San Francisco, Kayan’s leadership in the Yank Sing restaurant workers’ campaign resulted in a historic $4 million settlement for 280 workers."
Kayan was able to create this mural with their students from the Mandarin Institute through the STARTALK program.

One of the defining features of the mural are the clotheslines, which "recalls the Yick Wo supreme court case where Chinese-run laundries challenged equal protections and present-day tenants fined or evicted for hanging laundry" (CCC). "Each [yellow] window and door provides a different ‘glimpse’ of the inner life of Chinatown, a view that outsiders rarely see" (Wescover). Overall, what makes this mural resonate with the Chinatown community are the common themes: generational love, gender, worker's rights, racial adversity, and community-based justice.

📚: CCC, Eastwind Politics & Culture of America, Wescover, Kayan Cheung-Miaw, Spotlight Chinatown
📸: Spotlight Chinatown, Kearny Street Workshop

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