Opening, Centerpieces + Closing
Go Back To China
From L.A. to China, from fashionista to factory worker - how is a girl supposed to survive?!?! When spoiled rich girl Sasha Li (Anna Akana) blows through half of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the…
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Song Lang
An epic romance that combines the historical drama of Kaige Chen’s Farewell My Concubine with the rich visual palette of Kar-Wai Wong’s Happy Together!
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Our Time Machine
When influential Chinese artist Maleonn realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date.
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Chinatown Rising
Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck’s exquisite unreleased…
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Live Performances
Hip Hop Showcase
Returning for the sixth consecutive year at PAAFF is our Asian American Hip Hop Showcase, featuring some of the up-and-coming musical talents in our community. Scott Jung aka CHOPS from the legendary Mountain Brothers will emcee the event and will be joined by longtime collaborator DJ Roli Rho.
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Artist Bash
Since 2017, PAAFF has been a founding partner of the Barnes Foundation event series titled Artist Bash. This series is dedicated to showcasing performance artists of color within the museum space in an attempt to overcome the historical lack of representation in a predominantly white institution. Held three times a…
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Daniel Park: Emma Stone
11am-12:30pm Emma Stone (working title) is a collaboratively created solo-performance by Daniel Park and Dean Rawlins. Mixing stand-up comedy, performance art, and multi-media, the work creates a space in which the anger of people of color is legitimized, released, and healed.
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Dance Artist: Annielille Gavino
Filipinx dance artist Annielille Gavino will present a mixed media film and dance performance as part of the PAPA Mini-Residency Showcase. The performance will consist of two pieces and a post-performance talkback.
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Philly Asian Histories
Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (PAPA) presents an artist showcase featuring selected pieces from their August 2019 production, Philly Asian Histories. For this show a team of eight performing artists from varying creative backgrounds have devised and cultivated individual performances, with each featuring a different moment in our city’s Asian American…
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