I’ve got my calendar marked for these two films at the First Annual Asian Film Festival. They both take place at University of Washington’s Carwein Hall in the Keystone Bldg.:

Take Me Home
Oct. 23rd, 6p.m.
- A story about the Japanese internment camps in the U.S. during WWII. (As prep for this movie, you might want to catch Bad Day at Black Rock, one of the rare instances of issues-based film coming out of Hollywood in the early fifties. This beaut stars Spencer Tracy as a one-armed vet who returns to his hometown after the war only to find out a very dark secret about what happened to the Japanese-American family of a fellow GI who saved his life.)

Voices of Challenge: Hmong Women in Transition
Oct 30, 6 p.m.
- With their exotic mix of unique languages and subtle cultural differences the history and culture of some of my own Asian neighbors can be, for me, terra incognita. The Asian Film Festival is just the cure. And Voices of Challenge is a good place to start, as it explores the lives of Hmong-American women as they seek to pursue their education and careers in a culture that is far different from their family’s patriarchal traditions.

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Josh

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