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USA202189 minEnglishDrama, Reel Asian Award Winner
After being met with the destabilizing news of her parents’ divorce, Angie, a teenage, mixed-race Asian girl, reckons with her multiracial identity and sexual awakening in this quirky coming-of-age story. Her Asian-ness is called to question when her Chinese father begins dating a Chinese woman with a daughter who shares his culture and language. Angie’s feelings of inadequacy are met with her white-dominated surroundings in Galveston, Texas, fetishizing her mixed-race identity.
Angie, an unpopular highschooler, secretly ignites a sexual relationship with Liam, an all-American popular high school boy. She questions her morality when she befriends Sheryl, Liam’s popular Instagram-influencer girlfriend. Inbetween Girl explores Angie’s journey of girlhood using a whimsical variety of animation and mixed-media to explore her teenage angst, looking at young love, race, desire and belonging.
- Sarah Barzak
Emma Galbraith
William Magnuson
Emily Garrett
OFFICIAL SELECTION
South by Southwest, 2021
Center for Asian American Media, 2021
Deadcenter Film Festival, 2021
AWARDS
Audience Award, South by Southwest, 2021
Mei Makino
Mei Makino became passionate about making movies at age 11 in Galveston. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in radio-TV-film and received the university’s Standifer Emerging Filmmaker Award twice. During school, she wrote and directed short films that played at the Rockport Film Festival, Dallas VideoFest, PBS, and ESPN’s Longhorn Network. Post-college, she taught filmmaking and writing to youth in the Austin area with Creative Action and her alma mater Film Camp for Girls, which inspired her to tell honest stories about kids and teens.
10 Nov, 2021
to 19 Nov, 2021
AA
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First programmed as part of last year’s festival, this panel continues to reckon with the function of art, festival, and gallery spaces in a time of crisis.
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