Lunchbox: Anne Hu Serves a Taste of Taiwanese America in 90s-Era Cleveland

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Nearly four years ago, filmmaker Anne Hu spoke with Grace Hwang Lynch for TaiwaneseAmerican.org as she was crowdfunding to make Lunchbox, a dramatic, three-part coming-of-age short drama about regret, healing, and honoring the people we love. In the film, when a Taiwanese American woman (Shirley), prepares lunches from her childhood, she struggles to forgive herself for pushing away her immigrant mother.  Hu had written Lunchbox in 2017, when a Facebook video appeared on her feed, capturing…

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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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