News Archive - 2024

With over 150 awards to his name, the full scope of Arthur Dong’s storytelling mastery is brought to light in this Blu-ray collection of films that explore the LGBTQ experience. These critically acclaimed and award-winning films powerfully illustrate the many faces of the gay rights struggle in America, and dramatically reveal the social consequences of individual actions in America’s culture war over LGBTQ issues. Release date: June 25, 2024. Pre-order here.

Arthur Dong’s storytelling mastery is brought to light in this Blu-ray collection of films that explore the Asian American experience. This illuminating anthology includes four films spanning over 30 years that showcase Dong’s historically acute focus on Asian Americans at the crossroads with Hollywood, pop culture, tradition, immigration, racism, and genocide. Release date: June 25, 2024. Pre-order here.

Restored by UCLA Film & TV Archive from original negatives, Forbidden City, USA is now available to stream free on Kanopy. Watch it in the North American region with an approved public library card or university log-in at Kanopy.com.

We’re delighted to announce that Sewing Woman is now available to stream free on Kanopy! This is a newly restored version by UCLA Film & TV Archive, produced from original negatives. Academy Award® nomination for best short documentary, and narrated by veteran actress Lisa Lu, Watch it free in the North American region with an approved public library card or university log-in at Kanopy.com

With the addition of Family Fundamentals streaming on Kanopy, Arthur Dong’s trilogy of films that explore the “war on homosexuality” is now complete. In Family Fundamentals, the filmmaker is armed with a digital camera and takes viewers into the private and public lives of three families who have responded to gay offspring by actively opposing homosexuality. Watch it free in the North American region with an approved public library card or university log-in at Kanopy.com

Now available to stream free on Kanopy: Licensed to Kill, the double Sundance award-winning documentary exploring the roots of anti-gay violence as seen through the eyes of murderers who killed gay men. Watch it free in the North American region with an approved public library card or university log-in at Kanopy.com

Kanopy’s roll-out continues with COMING OUT UNDER FIRE, a Peabody Award-winning documentary uncovering the World War II origins of the US military’s anti-gay policies. Stream it FREE in the North American region with an approved public library card or university log-in at Kanopy.com

Our films are starting to stream FREE in North America on Kanopy! Apropos to Oscar week, the first up is The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor, which profiles the first Asian male actor to win an Academy Award. Simply start watching with an approved public library card or university log-in at Kanopy.com and search for the title.