Film Lab Presents Rising Glory
- Episode aired Dec 18, 2020
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Thought-provoking Content on Everyday Racism By Shing Chung
This fall I started watching the 13th season of the TV series Film Lab Presents on Friday nights and the
episodes have been a blast for me quarantining at home. The series showcases a variety of Asian
American stories of contemporary drama, comedy, and everything in between. Lots of Asian American
faces in these contents! The show is produced by the Film Lab, a non-profit that works to promote,
support and create racial and gender parity in entertainment media.
Ever since the incident of Central Park Karen, our country's racially oriented incidents have been more
and more at the focal point of social media and media attention. Masking by Team Plumeria takes that
attention and talks about counter-racism in the racial incidents. We see Jacob as an Asian American who
encountered racially motivated harassment in yet another incident and posted the encounter online, which
went viral. The story mainly focuses on the fallout of the situation after he went viral with the video. He
is hiding in a friend's empty apartment and contemplating on the incident. Soon, he realizes that though
he might be the victim of a racial incident. He also blindly stereotypes people for the color of their skin.
The short film is meant to provoke thoughts on the concept of racism and that perhaps there is more to
just race.
Raw Yolk, created by Sarahjun TV, the winner of the Grand Prize category was a film about putting one in
the other person's shoes. The film opens with a Caucasian man who apparently thinks that the
Coronavirus should be called the Wuhan virus, and that "literally EVERY disease comes from China."
The plot takes an imaginative spin when he sleeps and wakes up in the body of a Korean woman living in
Seoul, Korea, and gains new perspectives on his views of Asian culture and what it means to be Asian.
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- Jan 6, 2021
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