The Paradise We Are Looking For

Overview

San Diego has been called many things – including a paradise. It’s also a refugee city, a cluster of neighborhoods, a militarized zone, a border town. And Asian American. This collection of four short documentaries, commissioned on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, maps many such San Diego’s – across ethnicity, geography and history. At the same time, they hold on to some notion of paradise, however illusory: a haven from war, the dreams of an immigrant, precious teenage reminiscences, solace in the afterlife, and spaces for creative expression.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 7, 2019

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese

Countries

United States of America

Production

Pacific Arts Movement

Director

Norbert Shieh,Quyen Nguyen Le,R.J. Lozada,Joseph Mangat

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt11177226