Film,  Video, & Photography

                                                                      (click on titles for information or video)

 

                        There are more resources about mixed-black/Asian heritage as of now.  Other topics in visuals,

                             will be added as I find and assess them.  Again, just a beginning list to point to a variety.

 

 

Hafu:  The Mixed Race Experience in Japan  -  (documentary trailer, Japan/U.S. 2012)

Present-day interview with a diverse array of mixed-race people in Japan.

 

Utopia - (documentary, Australia 2013)

A beautiful and powerful documentary on the Northern Territory in Australia, which is the poorest region of Australia today and as we begin to understand its history and condition, we begin understanding the history of the founding of Australia which was done upon the genocidal impulse against the aboriginal population that is there today and has been for over 50,000 years.  "Black Australia" is alive today and is becoming more empowered in its resistance against injustices still perpetrated today.

 

Rabbit Proof Fence - (feature, Australia 2002)

Beautiful and touching. Three Aboriginal girls escape European forced assimilation school and domestic labor and set out to escape back across the outback. 

 

Buderim:  An Indigneous and South Sea Islander History (documentary, Australia 2012)

Excellent, fantastic, intimately personal-ancestral history of one of the indigenous Black tribes called the Gabi-Gabi people, who have been on the Australia-New Zealand islands for tens of thousands of years. The author's particular heritage includes heritage from Pacific Islands further north. The islanders and the indigenous were 'herded' together,  stolen from their homes and other islands and made slaves for European timber, cane and farming businesses in the 1800s. The Film was made by Earthbase Productions in Australia.

 

Dark Cargoes:  South Sea Islanders and the Australian Slaving System  - (documentary, Australia 2013)

This powerful documentary focuses on the little-considered South Pacific Islander/Asian slave trade which helped Australia's development in the 19th century.  The DVD is available from Greenapple Media Hervey.

 

The Australlian South Sea Islander Collection - UNESCO/Queensland Archives  

(documentary, Australia UNESCO)

Short online Video Documentary created by the Queensland Archives and UNESCO about the Queensland Sugar Plantation slavery industry in the 19th century in Australia.

 

Hon Hyul In - Mixed Race Koreans   -  (YouTube documentary - student film project, U.S.)

A Present-day School Project focusing on American Mixed-Race Koreans, especially Black Koreans.

 

Living Along the Fenceline  -  (Trailer and DVD documentary)

Seven courageous women who live alongside US bases from South Korea to Puerto Rico challenge the assumption that military bases make them safe.  DVD.

 

Kiku to Isamu   キクとイサム   -  (feature, Japan 1959 ) 

The trials and tribulations of a Black-Japanese Amerasian brother and sister living in the Japanese countryside in the late 1940s.   Japanese language only.  DVD available at CDJapan.

 

Left By the Ship    -  (documentary trailer, Italy, Philippines 2010) 

Filipino Amerasians living in poverty (marginalized by society), speak to the filmmakers about their dreams of finding their fathers and coming to America, to escape their lives there.  Beautiful.  English.

 

Amerasian Photography Project  - (photography/documentary 2014)

Enrico Dungca's photography and film project about Amerasians in the Philippines, marginalized both by Filipino cultural traditions informed by Catholicism, and the U.S. government and military system that refuses, till this day, to recognize them as American.  Promotional Video - click here.

 

Indochina:  Traces of a Mother  -   (documentary trailer, Benin 2012)  

Great Documentary on a Senagalese-Vietnamese man whose heritage is from his father fighting for the French in Indochina, who goes back to a 'new' Vietnam to search for his mother.

 

The Beautiful Country  -  (feature, U.S. 2004)

Nick Nolte, Bai Ling, and Tim Roth star in this epic and beautifully shot story of an Amerasian who is desperately wanting to find his father and makes a harrowing journey from Vietnam, to New York and Texas. 

 

Daughter from Danang    -  (documentary,  U.S.  2002)

During 'Operation Babylift' after the Vietnam War, the U.S. brought thousands of Vietnamese children to America. Many of them were Amerasian.  This film tells the story of one such girl.  English.

 

Blues Harp  -  (feature - info,  Japan 1998)

A  bartender and blues harmonica player in the 'red' district of Japan, is wrapped further into a world of crime. His predicament and life is linked to his Black-Okinawan heritage.  Japanese with English subtitles.

 

Ningen no Shoumei  人間の証明　 (Proof of a Man) or (Proof of a Human Being)   -  (feature info, Japan 1977)

A heart-wrenching and engrossing mystery opening with a young African-American man who is stabbed in Japan after leaving New York.  A mystery opens as both Japanese and American police investigate this murder, closely linked with the U.S. Occupation of Japan twenty-five years before this crime.  Filmed partially in New York with actors recognizable from American television in the 70s.  Japanese language only.

 

Katanga Women and Japan Atrocities against Mixed Race Babies  -  (YouTube Television News Report, UK 2010)

Feature Report on the Killing of mixed-race babies fathered by Japanese workers stationed in the Congo in the 1970s.  The women, the mothers of the babies, had begun to speak out after much shame and silence.

 

Black Korean singer Insooni - Establishes Multicultural School in Korea 2012 - Interview (YouTube)

Pop singers of mixed-Korean descent, especially Afro-Korean, have a difficult time in Korea, as in the Philippines, Japan, Okinawa, Vietnam, etc.  One of the those who have finally made it after decades of trying, is Insooni.  There are interviews of her trials and tribulations, including her meeting with an African-American friend who helped her as a young girl to get over her loneliness and lack of self-confidence.  This video is an interview with her after she founded a school for multicultural children (children of foreign workers, mixed race children, etc.).

 

MUSIC VID -  Young Up and Coming Black-Korean singer Michelle Lee releases Powerful song about Racism 2014

The song was a huge hit in Korea.  It is powerful.  Please watch carefully.   The scene showing the grafitti on the wall with phrases such as 'die monster' and 'ugly,' etc.  is there.  The lyrics basically say:  I'm Beautiful Without You.  I'm sick of you. Everyone treated me like you did.  I'm beautiful even if I couldn't be loved by you.  I can find another kind of love.   For English readers - To see English subtitles on the video, click on the 'cc'