WHITEWASHING & ASIAN REPRESENTATION | Diversity Speaks - 2017 LA Film Festival

 

The anti-whitewashing protests are getting louder and the social pushback is hard to ignore. Hollywood’s packaging of Asian and Asian-inspired cultural properties should be reconstructed. Panelist include: Leonardo Nam (Westworld), Kelly Hu (The Scorpion King), Kelvin Yu (Master of None), Ally Maki (Wrecked), Phil Yu (Angry Asian Man blog), Bruce Thierry Cheung (Don’t Come Back from the Moon) and Gloria Fan (VP of Current Programming, FOX) Moderated by Jenny Yang (comedian, Disoriented Comedy) *** The 2017 LA Film Festival took place June 14-22, headquartered at the ArcLight Cinemas Culver City, with additional screenings at ArcLight Hollywood, ArcLight Santa Monica and more. TICKETS & PASS PURCHASE INFO: http://bit.ly/2qLBR5P LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LA FILM FESTIVAL: http://bit.ly/2pxVtJt SUBSCRIBE TO FILM INDEPENDENT'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/user/filmindependent FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/filmindependent https://twitter.com/LAFilmFestival LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/filmindependent INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/filmindependent VISIT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.filmindependent.org/ BECOME A MEMBER OF FILM INDEPENDENT: http://www.filmindependent.org/membership