This Asian American International Film Festival, we are so proud to be the community partners of the film, CURTAIN UP! A big thank you to director Hui Tong for capturing this special story of what is happening right here in our neighborhood. Check out this film and so many others made by Asian American directors at this years AAIF.
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A group of Asian American kids in New York's Chinatown prepare the musical production of Frozen Kids as they begin to grapple with their own cultural expectations and identities.
For 10 years now, the PS 124 theater club in New York’s Chinatown has been the only Asian American team to compete at the renowned Junior Theater Festival. It even earned the privilege of being one of a select few schools nationally to premiere a kids’ production of Frozen. CURTAIN UP! follows the children's lives behind the scenes as they gear up for the much-anticipated show. Through rehearsals and heartbreak, CURTAIN UP! tackles deep questions of identity and transitions from a kid's-eye view, promising to leave an audience provoked.
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Hui Tong is a documentary filmmaker from Beijing. Now based in New York, he came six years ago to the U.S., where he developed a strong interest in the intersection of history, arts, and identity. While he has been making narrative and documentary shorts since high school, CURTAIN UP! is his first feature-length documentary. He is now working on his first book on Chinese identity, written through the lenses of Asian American, Chinese American, mainland Chinese, and overseas Chinese students.