PARACHUTE | Growing Pains | Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2021

Growing Pains

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For those who are currently teenagers and everyone else who can recall those emotionally charged years in a heartbeat, this program brings a wide array of Asian American coming-of-age stories together. Grappling with issues such as belonging, friendships, and alienation, the characters in these films experience fiery frustration and arrive at time-tested realizations. Get in touch with the thrills of this time of life, when it feels like with every change, nothing will ever be the same again.

Co-presented by TeenTix and Powerful Voices

After three years of living in America and attending a high school for international students, Chinese teenager Wendy Zhang is struggling. Her teachers don't care about her, her host family doesn't understand her, and her own parents are too far away to help. With the arrival of Mei-Ling, a classmate who breezes through with ambition and bilingual fluency, Wendy find herself increasingly destabilized. (Content Warning: Violence)

Year
2019
Runtime
14 minutes
Language
Chinese, English
Country
United States
Premiere
PNW Premiere
Note
English Subtitles

Director
Katherine Tolentino
Cast
Zoe Lau, Nicky Zou, Bettina Devin

7 films in package

After three years of living in America on her own, Chinese teenager Wendy Zhang is struggling. Her teachers don't care about her, her host family doesn't understand her, and her own parents are too far away to help. Then Mei-Ling arrives.

CRASHING WHEELS ON CONCRETE

A young software engineer skates her way through the ups and downs, the pains and beauty, the past and present of her life on a skateboard.

A young couple spends what could be their last night together.

Lily is questioning her faith in God and her sexuality as she develops a crush on her classmate, Alex. She grows sicker as her feelings grow stronger, and discovers she inherited a disease born of unrequited love.

It's ditch day in SoCal's San Gabriel Valley as two Asian American youths realize they might be on very different paths.

Filmmaker R.J. Lozada revisits high school memories alongside with a few of his peers in light of their 20th annual high school reunion, and find the moment as an opportunity to revere, to critique, to appreciate the memories.

Growing Pains Q&A

Moderated by Hut Ugalino with Katherine Tolentino (director, Parachute), Allan Zhang Tran (director, Valley), R.J. Lozada (director, Reunion '99), and Sean Wang (director, Sunday).

This virtual screening is eligible for audience awards! Unlock it to cast your vote.

Protected ContentThis content can only be viewed in authorized regions: United States of America.

For those who are currently teenagers and everyone else who can recall those emotionally charged years in a heartbeat, this program brings a wide array of Asian American coming-of-age stories together. Grappling with issues such as belonging, friendships, and alienation, the characters in these films experience fiery frustration and arrive at time-tested realizations. Get in touch with the thrills of this time of life, when it feels like with every change, nothing will ever be the same again.

Co-presented by TeenTix and Powerful Voices

After three years of living in America and attending a high school for international students, Chinese teenager Wendy Zhang is struggling. Her teachers don't care about her, her host family doesn't understand her, and her own parents are too far away to help. With the arrival of Mei-Ling, a classmate who breezes through with ambition and bilingual fluency, Wendy find herself increasingly destabilized. (Content Warning: Violence)

Year
2019
Runtime
14 minutes
Language
Chinese, English
Country
United States
Premiere
PNW Premiere
Note
English Subtitles

Director
Katherine Tolentino
Cast
Zoe Lau, Nicky Zou, Bettina Devin