Street Movies! Chinatown

Join us outdoors at the Chinatown Community Park for a curated night of local, international, and award-winning short films, plus discussion and live performance! This event is presented in partnership with Ginger Arts Center and PCDC.

Film Program

Under the Wave off Little Dragon (UK / 2025 / 14 MIN) 
Dir. Luo Jian
Caught between two worlds, a Chinese girl growing up in a Welsh fishing village rejects her mother’s folklore, until one magical encounter sheds a new light on everything she knows.

Sandcastles (Singapore, USA / 2024 / 17 MIN)
Dir. Carin Leong
As Singapore imports sand for urban expansion, a ghost town bearing its name lies buried underneath sand on the other side of the world. Sandcastles parallels two Singapores: one in Michigan where mass deforestation in the 1800s stirred surrounding sand dunes to swallow it whole, while its namesake in the East emerged from sand by reclaiming what was once only marshland and water. Through a poetic and mythological approach, the ephemeral nature of sand underscores humankind’s fraught relationship with the element: how can we trust the very ground we walk on when it’s built with and destroyed by nothing more than sand?

Face to Face: It's Not What You Think (USA / 1996 / 17 MIN)
Dir. Asian Americans United & Scribe Video Center
Produced by the Asian Americans United youth group as part of Scribe’s Community Visions program in 1996, this delightful and dynamic tape explores issues of cultural identity, school and gang culture, friends, parents, love, and poetry.