Author Spotlight

Brian Hu

Brian Hu is associate professor of Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. He is also the artistic director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the author of Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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The Banner Is Raised: Robert A. Nakamura’s Groundbreaking Activist Cinema

The pioneering filmmaker paved the way for generations of Asian American artists with his depictions of historical traumas, including the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

By Brian Hu

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart: Family Style

For the first of several domestic melodramas in his filmography, Wayne Wang drew on the influence of Yasujiro Ozu and the talent within his own San Francisco community to explore the relationship between a mother and her daughter.

By Brian Hu