Now Streaming on Instagram: “Vultures,” a Medical Conspiracy Thriller

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Taiwanese American filmmaker Iyin Landre’s new series, Vultures, is a short-form medical conspiracy thriller about what happens when an already staggering medical bill must be navigated within a healthcare system designed to make this care inaccessible, if not a further source of debilitation. The series follows Fiona, a woman trying to pay off the $300,000 in medical debt her sister, Cindy, has accumulated after a serious medical crisis. while gradually uncovering the corruption and corporate…

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Oliver Lin’s short film “To Add Oil” interrogates identity and duty

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Feature images provided by Oliver Lin or from his website. Today, we’re incredibly excited to be launching TaiwaneseAmerican.org’s “New Creatives” initiative, a series that seeks to highlight up-and-coming Taiwanese/Taiwanese American artists in various fields of creative artistry. Our first guest is Oliver Lin, a Taiwanese filmmaker and senior at the Ringling College of Art and Design studying film. Oliver grew up in Taiwan and came across video editing and cinematography at a young…

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“Danny, Danny”: Meet San Francisco filmmaker Huan Cheng

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FEATURE PHOTOS COURTESY OF HUAN CHENG, 2021 San Francisco-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Huan Cheng explores the loneliness of the immigrant experience in her short film Danny, Danny. Cheng, born in Taiwan, draws upon her own experiences of arriving in the United States as a young adult in Danny, Danny, which screened at CAAMFest this year and The Method Fest in 2020, and is now available to audiences again. Cheng is a member of the Hollywood Professional Association 2021 Young Entertainment…

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