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The Post Gen is a cultural studio for film, archives, music, publishing + gatherings.

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🌁 BAY AREA – This is your chance to catch two nights of NEW WAVE!!

Thank you KALW Public Media @kalwpublicmedia and Janice Lee for highlighting our film!

Sunday, September 28
📍The Roxie Theater
🕔 3:30PM
@thepopcornlist

Friday, October 10
📍Brava Theatre Center
🕔 7:00PM
🎥 Opening short films:
@wereokayfilm
@dalycityshortfilm

With gratitude to @thepopcornlist, @roxie_theater, @bravatheater, @luciatran, @nickhartanto, @lessthanhalfpictures, @sean.ngyn, @tiannama3 and our community partners for making these NEW WAVE 50 for 50 events possible!

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WE DID IT!!! We made a movie!!! 😭😭😭

Still racing to get to the @tribeca world premiere this Saturday but had to stop and catch my breath a moment to thank these beautiful humans who helped bring this story to life. Hundreds more to thank so you can bet I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life.

Director/Writer/Producer: @elizabeth_ai
Produced by: @rachel_sine p.g.a.
Cinematography: @bryantswanstrom
Edited by: Hee-Jae Park
Editors: @therongsam @cskeditor @realnancygrace
Featuring: @iandjbpm @lyndatrangdaifanpage
Consulting Producer: @hannahbernall
Co Producers: @ssoyunum @humansunnie
Associate Producer: @menadolinh
Archival Producer: @julia_huynh
Original Music By: @gregbernall @_chrisupton
Original Song: @trace @lohariel
Executive producers: @simuliu @dmquon @geetagandbhir @heyrobina @cxylee Dug & Linh Song
Co Exec Producer: Jane Solomon
In Association With: @cinereach @fordfoundation @california_humanities @spark_features @musicnerdxyz
Color: @robertcrosby182 @neptunepost
GFX: @studiolhooq @mylinhtrieu
Sound: @sungrokchoi
VFX: @mishasgeorge
Humanities Advisors: @thuyvodang @thaohaphd @joshdkun @ysadinhle @isabellethuypelaud Lan Duong
Impact Producers: @aznamericana @gabenoogen @conniest__

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We’re at Gotham Week Project Market (virtually), looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and making new friends!

Thank you @thegotham for the opportunity! Best of luck to all the other amazing stories at Gotham.

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This week ☀️🌳🌷

🎉🎉Grand Park has a full and exciting week planned. Check out what's in store. Join us! 😊

💻🎶 📽 📚 Grand Park Our L.A. Voices: Digital Spring Arts & Culture Fest officially launches this week!! Join us virtually as we celebrate the multicultural and diverse landscape of Los Angeles County's arts community through the lens of identity, impact, and resiliency. Check out the amazing Grand Park partners for week one:

🎉🎉Grand Park #OLAV week one THUR APR 15 at 6PM PST.
🎶 @djlanilove
🎬 @elizabeth_ai @newwavedocumentary
📚 @culture_la @meztliprojects @neaarts @alan.salazar.1942 @sunspritehandwork
✨ 🎶 📽 @whoisarthurking @akprecordings

🌸💃🏻🧘🏽‍♀️💪🏼💻 Are you enjoying the all new virtual program Grand Park REC Center !? 💕 Get your dose of #wellnesswednesday with Grand Park enjoy content centered around physical, mental, and emotional wellness! Tune in for this week's class:

💃🏻 Introduction to Chinese Dance
APR 14 12PM PST with dance instructor @yip.christy , from @pacda_chinesedance and @scccaics who will teach in Mandarin Chinese ❤

-🙏🏼😌Virtual Lunch À La Park Yoga with Grand Park yoga instructor @courtneyseiberling (WED + FRI) APR 14 & 16 from 12:15pm-1pm tune into YouTube or Facebook!

-🌯 Grand Park's Lunch À La Park Food Trucks From 11am-2pm, stop by and grab a bite to eat and support your local small businesses🍴🥗🍗🦐😋

Tue: @thedelidoctor
Wed: @pacificocf1
Thur: @bellybombz

A friendly reminder to please continue following all safety measures while visiting Grand Park by masking-up and maintain social distance. 🙏🏽💕

#grandparkla #GrandParkOurLAVoices #OLAV2021 #festival #WeBelieveinArts #GrandParkRECcenter #wellnesswednesday #lunchàlapark #yoga #foodtrucks #yogalosangeles #selfcare #lafoodies #lafoodie #community #dtla #ElParqueParaTodos #TheParkforEveryone

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Check out the amazing lineup for Grand Park's Our LA Voices 2021, starting NEXT THURSDAY! Tune in every Thursday from April 15-29 at 6PM for talks, workshops, performances, film, and more! Find out more info at olav.grandparkla.org. Link in bio.⁠
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#grandparkourlavoices #grandparkla #talks #workshops #art #film #music #dance #performances #festival

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My friend @elizabeth_ai also RHS alum, is working on this project and looking for people to submit Videos or Photos of people that lived though this subculture. Please DM her what you got, especially home videos!!!! I credit my mom for allowing me to express myself at this time and wearing pointy leather shoes to 5th grade and playing kickball. Also, my sisters love of Synth Pop. Hainy, my new friend from Rosemead brought me into his family and introduced me to this.

Repost from @newwavedocumentary
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So happy that NEW WAVE reconnected me to hometown hero and fashion icon Humberto Leon, co-founder of @openingceremony.

Here's a first of more posts to come from @humberto about his new wave days:
The year was 1985, I had just moved from Highland Park to Rosemead and met a friend who quickly became my best friend. His name was Hainy and his parents were super cool. I just remember they had a mini fridge in their bedroom with Sara Lee chocolate cake in it. I started hanging out with his family and went to his family's garage dance parties. They played a lot of New Wave music and I was hooked. I copied cassette tapes of Modern Talking, C.C. Catch, Joy, etc. and introduced it to my sisters. They were already into Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, etc. so "Asian New Wave" (aka Eurodisco) and Synth POP all fit together perfectly!

I think the inherent style was one thing that really struck me. Along with the music, came the way this community dressed and it was very groundbreaking. It was a rebellion of style and it felt very unique. I still think a lot about everything I loved back then and it still informs my style today. I wore pointy toe shoes to school in 5th grade. That’s a big statement considering I even played kick-ball in those shoes.

1. Fresh back from a Hong Kong shopping trip with his mom, Humberto shows off his new wave gear from skinny tie, shiny vest, to pointy shoes (yes, the ones he played kick-ball in).

2. Humberto with Hainy, 5th grade BFFs at Hainy's birthday party. Both super stylish in their new wave threads.

3. Humberto and Hainy at the party. Humberto's hand in a cast - he broke it while playing tether ball, of course

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“Knowing there are so few stories about the Vietnamese diaspora experience that aren’t tied to images of war and destruction, Vietnamese new wave felt like a great personal point of departure.”
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A-Doc member Elizabeth Ai chats with diaCritics about her documentary currently in production, what New Wave meant for Vietnamese American youths, her own family history, and how music can serve as a bridge. Ai is seeking to expand Viet-Am archives by sourcing personal photos and home videos from the New Wave era through her documentary’s Instagram (@newwavedocumentary) and Facebook accounts.

Read the Q&A: bit.ly/adoc-eai

#DocumentaryFilmmaker #FilmmakerFriday #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #ADocGoesViral

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Congratulations to director and screenwriter @elizabeth_ai and @newwavedocumentary on earning a fellowship in the 2020 Film Independent Docuseries Intensive, backed by @CNN. The intensive is a remote workshop helping filmmakers network and move their project forward into the nonfiction series space to find future collaborators. ⁠⠀
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The documentary looks at new wave, a music genre, culture, and home to many Vietnamese Americans from the 1970s to the 1990s. This culture meant a lot to young Vietnamese refugees after the Fall of Saigon.⁠⠀
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In an interview with @dia_critics, Elizabeth shares her goal as director: "I’ve narrowed my focus to examine the evolution of refugee youth identity and the cultural bridge built during this fraught time with this music."⁠⠀
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The New Wave documentary has created its own Instagram account "in hopes that it’ll motivate others to share photos or videos from their personal archives." Head over to @newwavedocumentary to learn more!

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Congrats to A-Doc members Elizabeth Ai, Kimberlee Bassford, Tracy Chitupatham and Jin Yoo-Kim on being selected to participate in the 2020 Film Independent + CNN Original Series Docuseries Intensive! Creative advisors and guest speakers for the Intensive include A-Doc co-founder Grace Lee and fellow members, Smriti Mundhra and Marjan Safinia.

The Docuseries Intensive is a three-day remote workshop that gives filmmakers the tools and access needed to develop and pitch their nonfiction series to potential collaborators, including studio and network executives during networking/pitch events. Each film team receives a $3,500 stipend.

See below for more info on the projects including additional A-Doc members on the team.

Cult Foods, directed and executive produced by Jin Yoo-Kim, co-executive produced by Ann Kaneko
A docuseries that unwraps the foods that go from relative obscurity to fanatical worship. Kneel at the altar and witness the cuisine that stirs up subcultures, heats up waitlists, squeezes in crime, and melts hearts. In the first season of this series, sing the praises of SPAM, quinoa, cauliflower, and fried chicken.

New Wave, directed by Elizabeth Ai, produced by Tracy Chitupatham and Anh Phan, post-production support by Nancy Nguyen
A historical coming-of-age story about Vietnamese refugee youth that survived the trauma of losing their homeland, after the fall of Saigon in 1975, and fought to build community and redefine their identities through the “new wave” music scene.

Woman 2.0, directed by Kimberlee Bassford, produced by Lauren Kawana
Women’s bodies and health have always been shrouded in taboo, but a wave of innovation, activism and public policy breakthroughs is changing the relationship women have with their bodies. Host and music producer, drummer, artist and activist Kiran Gandhi aka Madame Gandhi traverses the country to reveal how the latest technology in women’s reproductive health is not only making women’s lives easier but is part of the greater movement toward women’s empowerment and gender equality.

bit.ly/adoc-docuseries-2020

#FilmIndependent #CNN #Docuseries #DocumentaryFilmmaker #ADocGoesViral

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🎉🎉 Grand Park's Our LA Voices 2021 launches TODAY AT 6PM PT! Follow along @djlanilove as she takes over Grand Park's IG Stories all day long, leading up to Our LA Voices!⁠
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🎧🎶 Then get ready to vibe to a LIVE Viet Trap DJ set with @djlanilove, followed by a talk with @elizabeth_ai about her latest project @newwavedocumentary. 🗣💬 ⁠
Sometimes referred to as "The Wholesome DJ", Lani Love is known for being a curate of all things good, music, style, and thoughtfulness. In the before-COVID times, she DJed nightlife and corporate events, but since the pandemic started, she has been consistently streaming to Twitch 4+ nights a week and DJing private events via Zoom.⁠
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Catch Lani and the rest of the festivities on Grand Park's YouTube, Facebook, or olav.grandparkla.org (link in bio). See you there!⁠
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#GrandParkOurLAVoices #grandparkla #olav #spring #art #culture #fest #festival #music #dance #talks #workshops #film

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🎉🎉 Grand Park's Our LA Voices 2021 launches TODAY AT 6PM PT!⁠
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🗣💬 Learn about @elizabeth_ai's latest project @newwavedocumentary with @djlanilove, following her LIVE Viet Trap DJ set. 🎧🎶⁠
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Elizabeth Ai is a Los Angeles based Emmy award-winning producer. She writes, directs, and produces independent narratives as well as branded content for companies such as National Geographic, ESPN, and VICE. She produced documentary features; DIRTY HANDS: THE ART & CRIMES OF DAVID CHOE (2008), on the titled artist after his prison release and before his meteoric rise and A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM (2019), which examines wage theft and exploitation of the only visible NFL women. ⁠
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Additionally, she produced SAIGON ELECTRIC (2011), a narrative feature set in Vietnam’s world of breakdancing. During her tenure at VICE, she created the original pilot for BONG APPÉTIT (2014), which got picked up for series on Viceland. She’s currently directing and producing two in-progress feature documentaries and has a slate of narratives in development. She’s a fellow of Berlin Talent Campus, Film Independent, Sundance, and Tribeca. Her film projects are supported by California Humanities, Firelight Media, International Television Service, and Knight Foundation. ⁠
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Catch Elizabeth and the rest of the festivities on Grand Park's YouTube, Facebook, or olav.grandparkla.org (link in bio). See you there!⁠
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#GrandParkOurLAVoices #grandparkla #olav #spring #art #culture #fest #festival #music #dance #talks #workshops #film

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https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/05/10477731/vietnamese-new-wave ❤️✊ #newwave #newwavemusic #vietnamese #vietnameseboatpeople #vietnameserefugees #stopasianhate #stopaapihate #washthehate #api #aapihm #apahm #aapi #asianimmigrants #notyourtokenasian #makenoisetoday

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