Bad Axe
This Online Screening has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 16 at 9am CT.
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After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of Bad Axe, MI at the start of the pandemic, an Asian-American filmmaker documents his family's struggles to keep their restaurant open. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to the Cambodian Killing Fields unearth between the family's patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage in America, the family uses their voice to speak out in their town where Trumpism runs deep. What unfolds is a real-time portrait of 2020 through the lens of this multicultural family’s fight to keep their American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and the trauma of having survived a genocide.
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Director
Credits
Director: | David Siev |
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Executive Producer: | Jeff Tremaine, Shanna Newton, Michael Meinhold, Tim Chow |
Producer: | Jude Harris, Diane Quon, Katarina Vasquez, David Siev |
Cinematographer: | David Siev |
Editor: | Rosie Walunas, Peter Wagner |
Music: | Stephanie Kowal |
Contact
Distributor: | Andrew Herwitz |
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Public Film Contact: | Katarina Vasquez |
Publicity Contact: | David Magdael |
Sales Agent: | The Film Sales Company |
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