Directed and edited by Calvin
Sun. Produced by Aretha Choi,
Marilla Li, and Calvin
Sun.Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=L8XWQ6...***WINNER of the
audience favorite 'One to
Watch Award' in the longest
running Asian American film
festival in the world; the
30th Annual Asian American
International Film
Festival!!!***Th
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Directed and edited by Calvin
Sun. Produced by Aretha Choi,
Marilla Li, and Calvin
Sun.Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=L8XWQ6...***WINNER of the
audience favorite 'One to
Watch Award' in the longest
running Asian American film
festival in the world; the
30th Annual Asian American
International Film
Festival!!!***This is part 1
of 2 in a film discussing the
Asian American opinion on
female body image, beauty
standards, eating disorders,
and unspoken pressures to be
thin in both American and
Asian cultures.An otherwise
taboo subject to talk about
among specifically Asian
Americans, students at
Columbia University are now
tired of keeping mum about the
issue and are speaking
out.This video does not aim to
cover every single ground
regarding the topic; instead
it seeks to begin dialogue
with a generalized approach to
the problems as a first step.
We want first to show that
Asian Americans are like any
other American struggling with
issues of body image while at
the same time facing pressures
coming from their own
respective cultures.This video
certainly focuses on the
former point; We hope that the
latter will be explored more
in the future. We also must
reveal the contradiction of
how Asian American girls are
pressured in this society to
look both 'western' and
'Asian.'This includes
pressures on how many Asian
American girls are supposed to
play up this well-known image
of looking innocent, weak, and
petite as 'attractive', but at
the same time mainstream media
depicts Asian American females
as alluring, 'exotic,' and
sexy.We hope that the people
in this video will inspire
others around the world to
undertake similar projects
that would focus deeper into
these issues regarding body
image and perhaps more
specifically Asian American
body image.Therefore, this is
only the beginning.Produced by
Aretha Choi & Marilla
Li.Directed & edited by Calvin
Sun.For more information,
please contact
aaa@columbia.eduDedicated to
my father,Alexander S.
Sun1939-2006calvin.sun@columbi
a.edu

Category Film & Animation

Tags Asia, America, student, Columbia, University, body, image, beauty, eat, disorder, woman, bulimia, girl, sexy, anorexia, sex, weight, loss