The Chinatown Film Project

Tribeca All Access is proud to be a community partner of the Museum of Chinese in America and the museum's inaugural film exhibition, The Chinatown Film Project. 

Curated and produced by Karin Chien, ten original shorts by prominent New York City filmmakers construct new images of Chinatown.  TAA alumni Sam Pollard and Rose Troche are among the contributing filmmakers.

 

 

Visit the Museum of Chinese in America in 2009 to see all of the films commissioned for The Chinatown Film Project.

 

Check out clips about the making of the films, as well as more Chinatown portraits on YouTube.

 


Works featured in The Chinatown Film Project: 

  • The Guy with the Cigarette directed by Miguel Arteta

  • Church Basement Bomb Shelter directed by Patty Chang

  • New York Night Scene directed by Jem Cohen

  • Kiwi Lotion directed by Cary Fukunaga

  • I Can’t Wait directed by So Yong Kim & Bradley Rust Gray

  • Fortune Cookie directed by Amir Naderi

  • Chinatown: In Their Own Words directed by Sam Pollard

  • Five Approaches directed by Shelly Silver

  • Sunday at 6 directed by Rose Troche

  • Tuesday directed by Wayne Wang & Richard Wong


About The Chinese Film Project & Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)

Founded in 1980, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities and our imaginations, on our television screens and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants. Chinatown is both the ultimate Hollywood metaphor and a neighborhood where families still live.

The Chinatown Film Project tackles Chinatown's elusiveness and its stereotyped representations by constructing new images for the viewer. The project starts locally, where we asked ten of New York City’s most exciting filmmakers to present their unique vision of this global icon.

The Chinatown Film Project features an online site where anyone can upload videos about Chinatowns around the world. This virtual community of makers and viewers speaks to a re-imagining of Chinatown as one interconnected global locality.