Subverting Stereotypes: Re-Writing Asian American Narratives in Film and TV

Name: Subverting Stereotypes: Re-Writing Asian American Narratives in Film and TV — CAPE
Start: 2021-05-06T17:00:00-0700
End: 2021-05-06T18:00:00-0700

Thursday, May 6, 2021
5:00 PM 6:00 PM 17:00 18:00

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For this virtual panel, the Writers Guild Foundation, in partnership with the WGAW’s Asian American Writers Committee, the Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) and Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity (TTIE), discuss how Asian American film and TV writers are updating and revising onscreen and behind-the-screen narratives to be more inclusive, multi-dimensional, and authentic.

Panelists:

Liz Hsiao Lan Alper (Writer/Producer, Day of the Dead; Co-Founder #PayUpHollywood),
Teresa Hsiao (Co-creator/Executive Producer, Awkwafina is Nora From Queens; writer/producer, American Dad, Fresh Off the Boat)
Adele Lim (Screenwriter, Raya and the Last Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians; writer/producer, Lethal Weapon, Reign)
Y. Shireen Razack (Writer/Co-Executive Producer, New Amsterdam; Co-Founder, Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity)
Alexander Woo (Co-creator/Executive Producer, The Terror: Infamy)

Moderated by Tawal Panyacosit, Jr., (Co-Creator/Co-Executive Producer, Life After First Failure, Co-Founder, Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity).

Filmed on May 6, 2021.