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DEADLINE Oscars: Documentary Feature Entries Shatter Record; Animated Feature, International Films In Running Confirmed

DEADLINE Oscars: Academy Reveals List Of Films Eligible For Best Picture Race

INDIEWIRE AFI Docs 2020 Has Majority Films by Women

BBC NEWS 美国大选2020:特朗普与拜登,谁能得到华人的选票

NBC NEWS New film spotlights shifting politics of Asian American voters, the fastest growing voter bloc

NBC4 Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

SALON From a gun-toting firebrand to a Southern professor, “First Vote” examines Asian American voters

THE WASHINGTON POST What to see at the DC Shorts Film Festival 

THE WASHINGTON POST A Chosen Few Win Festival Slots 

NPR Chinatown Documentary Explores Past, Future of Changing Neighborhood

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION AFI Docs 2020: The Stories behind the Headlines, the Business behind the Stories

POLITICO Three Minutes With… 

ASIAN CINEVISION Let Freedom Ring, All Ye Who Enter Here 

THE YAPPIE Inside one filmmaker’s push to document the stories of Chinese dissidents 

STAR NEWS Compelling festival documentary reveals lives of Chinese dissidents 

RADIO NEW ZEALAND Compelling documentary reveals lives of Chinese dissidents in the US 

CHARACTER MEDIA Director Yi Chen Highlights the Dangers of Activism in ‘Dissidents’ 

OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS Announce 2019 Soros Equality Fellows

VILCEK FOUNDATION First Vote: Chinese Americans and the presidential election

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION Screen Time: Week of October 19, 2020

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE Your Guide to the Women Filmmakers at AFI DOCS 2020

WASHINGTON CITY PAPER First Vote Might Rekindle Your Faith in Electoralism

WASHINGTON CITY PAPER The No Luck Club: Three Films on Displacement in D.C. 

AKRON BEACON JOURNAL Documentary highlights Asian American voters in battleground states

WORLD CHANNEL WORLD Channel Launches Your Vote 2020 Initiative Explores Racial Diversity of Voters in 2020 Election

SUP CHINA Personhood by Paper

ASIA PACIFIC ARTS Exploring The Asian American Political Experience In “First Vote”

CHINA CHANNEL How Will Chinese Americans Vote In 2020?

CURVY FILM CRITIC AFI DOCS 2020: First Vote Spotlights Asian Voting Issues

FILMFESTIVALS AFI Unveils 59 Films from 11 Countries & 61 Percent by Women

SHOOT AFI DOCS Unveils Lineup of 59 Films From 11 Countries

ASAMNEWS Getting inside the minds of Chinese American Trump supporters and their Democratic opposition

THE MOVEABLE FEST A Diverse Demographic Gets Their Due in Yi Chen’s Sharply Observed “First Vote”

BERKELEYSIDE Small Screen Berkeley: CAAMFest 2020

BAY CITY NEWS Pass the Remote: Five films to watch during CAAMFest Online: Heritage at Home

THISFUNKTIONAL FIRST VOTE to have virtual world premiere on May 5 as part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) Spring Virtual Showcase

CULTURED FOCUS MAGAZINE First Vote Film Debut at The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2020

STARRY CONSTELLATION MAGAZINE Movie Review: First Vote

REEL CAUSES partners with VAFF to present First Vote

THE NERDS OF COLOR Southern Fried Asian: ‘First Vote’

SUP CHINA “People are hyped up,” but how many Chinese Americans will vote in an election like no other?

PLUM RADIO What is Trump’s appeal to Chinese immigrant voters?

LIA CHANG Watch: America ReFramed Series Presents WORLD TV Broadcast Premiere of Yi Chen’s Documentary FIRST VOTE

FILMS GONE WILD HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FF INTERVIEWS: Yi Chen talks about her film, FIRST VOTE

MOVIE REVIEWS N MORE talks to first time director Yi Chen on “First Vote” Asian Americans voting

SHAKE THE COSMOS Yi Chen on Shake the Cosmos

THE FILM COLLABORATIVE SXSW 2021 Panel: Impact Global VOD Films Free for Good

CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING Through In-Depth and Educational Programming, Public Media Addresses Anti-Asian Hate

WORLD CHANNEL Asian American Pacific Islander Month Viewer’s Guide

PREVIEW Preview Picks: Sarah Jaffe, ‘America Reframed’ top the list

MENGYU 支持特朗普的华人,改变主意了吗?

WAINAO 华裔导演陈怡:政治立场不同的华裔选民都渴望获得归属感

DC ARTS AND HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Announces FY20 Grantees 

KARTEMQUIN FILMS Announcing the Diverse Voices Accelerator Fund and Emerging Storyteller Fund Grantees

CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA Developing Documentary Stories and Getting Them Funded

CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA Complicating Narratives: Asian American Storytellers in the South 

CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA Steve Haruch: What I Learned at the First Convening of Asian American Filmmakers in the South

VOICE OF AMERICA Day Break Asia

GREATER GREATER WASHINGTON As Chinatown grows, some long-time residents wonder where they fit 

NEW CANADIAN MEDIA Conference Discusses the Future of Canada’s Chinatowns 

DC PUBLIC LIBRARY Celebrating Washington’s Neighborhoods 

AARP “Chinatown”, the Documentary Hosted by AARP DC

DC FILM OFFICE MPTD Salutes DC Filmmakers

DC FILM OFFICE Yi Chen Honored as April Filmmaker of the Month 

THE KOJO NNAMDI SHOW From MCI, To Verizon, To Capital One: How a Downtown Arena Changed D.C. Twenty Years Ago 

DC FILM OFFICE OCTFME to Sponsor High School Film Competition at the 2016 DC Independent Film Festival

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY DC Arts-Grant Awarded to American University Adjuncts, Alumni

TAKOMA PARK CITY TV BackStage Takoma: Episode 15

BETHESDA MAGAZINE Two Documentaries: Life of Cheng Se Tseo & Chinatown

ASIAN FORTUNE Our Community: October 2014 

ED MOY ‘Chinatown’ documentary explores struggles of Washington DC Chinatown residents

FESTIVAL DC “Chinatown Screening Schedule at 10th Annual DC Shorts Film Festival

ARCADIA PUBLISHING Washington, D.C., Film and Television by Tracey Gold Bennett (page 102)

YIYI YANG Chinatown Documentary: A Step Closer to Observing D.C.’s Chinatown 

MONTEGOMERY COMMUNITY MEDIA The Info Zone Interview

ASAM NEWS Examiner.com: The Last Chinese Residents of Washington DC’s Chinatown

NEIGHBORHOOD NOMADS Filmmaker Focuses on DC’s Chinatown

SOBECKI On DC Chinatown 

JAYBIRD’S JOTTINGS New Documentary Film on D.C.’s Chinatown

SAMPAN First documentary to look at contemporary D.C. Chinatown launches Kickstarter campaign 

SINO VISION 纪录片记录华盛顿华埠变迁  

EXAMINER Chinese Filmmaker Yi Chen Documents Washington D.C. Chinatown’s Gentrification 

PUBLIC ASIAN New Documentary Examines Dwindling Community and Social, Cultural Issues in D.C.’s Chinatown 

LINK TV Environmental Filmmaking: The Rising Stars