Now Playing
Arthur Dong is a featured profile in KCET’s Artbound documentary about Angel City Press, publishers of the Hollywood Chinese book. Dong and Octavia’s Bookshelf owner Nikki High reflect on Hollywood Chinese and discuss the importance of documenting diverse histories in literature. Click here to watch the segment. To watch the entire documentary click here.
Virtual Event
A 30th anniversary screening of Claiming A Voice: The Visual Communications Story was presented by the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival’s Virtual Showcase, followed by a Q & A with director Arthur Dong and editor Walt Louie, moderated by Abraham Ferrer, festival co-director. Originally broadcast on May 4, 2020, the conversation is now available to view online: Click here to watch (discussion starts at six minutes in).
Virtual Event
Author and filmmaker Arthur Dong is a guest on the Quarantine Film Series, discussing life during the pandemic, Stanley Kubrick, and the creative process in directing Hollywood Chinese and writing the Hollywood Chinese book. Hosted by New York Times best-selling author and multi-Grammy winner Kabir Sehgal. Originally broadcast on December 5, 2020, the conversation is now available to view online: Click here to watch.
Virtual Event
WeHo Reads presents a conversation between Arthur Dong, author of Hollywood Chinese, and Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown. WeHo Reads is a literary series featuring new and noteworthy authors presented by the City of West Hollywood. Originally broadcast May 12, 2021, the coversation is now available to view online: Click here to watch.
Virtual Event
Info: https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/piccadilly
In celebration of Anna May Wong’s impact on film history and beyond, the Academy Museum screens Piccadilly (1929), one of the actor’s best-known silent films. A discussion follows, featuring filmmaker and author Arthur Dong and Wong’s niece Anna Wong, and moderated by the Academy Museum’s Chief Artistic and Programming Officer Jacqueline Stewart. Originally streamed online from July 22 to August 2, 2021, the discussion segment is now available to view online: Click here to watch.
Q & A: Coming Out Under Fire
Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive, Pioneers of Queer Cinema brought together 33 films to showcase “radical explorations of sexual orientation and gender identity.” The 4K restoration of Coming Out Under Fire screened Feb 20, 2022 at the Billy Wilder Theater, followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Arthur Dong and Outfest UCLA Legacy Project Manager Brendan Lucas. Watch the conversation here.
Streaming
Pop culture author/professor Oliver Wang is in conversation with Arthur Dong to mark Criterion Channel’s seven-film retrospective, “Stories of Resistance: Documentaries by Arthur Dong.” Punctuated with clips and stills highlighting Arthur’s fifty-year career, this insightful interview began streaming online December 2021. Click to watch.
Streaming Dates: October 4, 2021 to March 31, 2022
The Criterion Channel
Info: https://www.deepfocusproductions.com/criterion-channel-retrospective/
The Criterion Channel presents seven award-winning documentaries by Arthur Dong in this first-ever complete retrospective of the filmmaker’s work spanning five decades.
May 17, 2024 at 7pm
UCR Arts Theater
3824 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 827-4787
Info: https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/hollywood-chinese/
UCR ARTS’ AAPI Film Series presents Hollywood Chinese, with director Arthur Dong in attendance. Dong’s Forbidden City, USA screens the next evening. Both events are free and open to the public. Reservations required. UCR ARTS’ AAPI Film Series Supported by the Voy and Fay Wong Family Endowment.
May 24, 2024 at 4:30pm
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
6067 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
The Academy Museum presents a conversation between author Yunte Huang and filmmaker Arthur Dong about the life and career of the famed Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong. Followed by a book signing of Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History with author Yunte Huang.
May 25, 2024 at 2pm
Santa Monica Public Library
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 458-8600
Info: https://smpl.org/
Authors Katie Gee Salisbury (Not My China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong), and Jeff Yang (The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America), discuss Anna May Wong and other underappreciated Asian American pioneers of the Dawn of Hollywood. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Arthur Dong (Hollywood Chinese) moderates the conversation. A book sale and signing follows. Free and open to the public.
Ongoing
The Formosa Cafe
7156 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood , CA 90046
Info: https://www.deepfocusproductions.com/hollywood-chinese-formosa-cafe/
“Hollywood Chinese at the Formosa” offers a nostalgic, yet thought-provoking look into cinema’s fascination with the Chinese. Commissioned by the iconic Formosa Cafe, the exhibit highlights photos and lobby cards from Arthur Dong’s collection of movie memorabilia depicting the Chinese in American feature films. Please contact the venue to confirm accessibility and hours.
November 4 - 27, 2022
Ted Mann Theater
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
6067 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90036
Info: https://www.deepfocusproductions.com/hollywood_chinese_academy_museum_series/
Stemming from his authoritative documentary and book Hollywood Chinese, Arthur Dong served as guest programmer for the series, “Hollywood Chinese: The First 100 Years”, presented at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Throughout the month of November 2022, twenty-seven films in fifteen programs were presented live and included special guests Nancy Kwan, James Hong, Joan Chen, among many others.
Streaming Dates: August 1 to October 31, 2022
The Criterion Channel
Info: https://www.deepfocusproductions.com/hollywood-chinese-criterion-channel-series/
Curated by filmmaker Arthur Dong, and anchored by his landmark documentary and book, the Hollywood Chinese series on The Criterion Channel included selections from cinema’s first hundred years to explore the ways in which the Chinese have been imagined in American feature films.
May 18, 2024 at 7pm
UCR Arts Theater
3824 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 827-4787
Info: https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/forbidden-city-usa/
UCR ARTS’ AAPI Film Series presents Forbidden City, USA with director Arthur Dong in attendance. The screening will be followed b a special performance by the Grant Avenue Follies! Dong’s Hollywood Chinese screens the previous evening. Both events are free and open to the public. Reservations required. UCR ARTS’ AAPI Film Series Supported by the Voy and Fay Wong Family Endowment.
