Our award-winning short film, “Journey of a Paper Son,” will be screening at the University of Texas at Austin/Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) for one of their Asian American history classes on Thursday, 3/4/2021, from 2:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m. CST. Afterward, there will be a Q&A with the director, Ming Lai. In the film, an elderly Chinese man, who’s dying from cancer, shocks his family when he reveals that he’s a “paper son” (an illegal immigrant using fake documents) and asks them for a final wish to change back his name. “Journey of a Paper Son” was an official selection of a dozen national film festivals and won the “Best Short Film Gold Award” at the Chinese American Film Festival. According to their site, the CAAS “seeks to develop and highlight transnational and hemispheric perspectives and narratives in the American and the American South.” Recently partnering with ProQuest’s Alexander Street, we hope to support more university Asian American studies programs with their important work. Thank you to Mohit Mehta, Dr. Eric Tang, Tony Vo, Uri Kolodney, and the University of Texas at Austin and their Center for Asian American Studies for this huge honor.

Screening and Q&A with Ming Lai:
Thursday, 3/4/2021, from 2:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m. CST*
*This screening and Q&A are available only to University of Texas at Austin students.

To learn more about “Journey of a Paper Son”:
https://www.humanistfilms.com/journeyofapaperson

For educational sales of “Journey of a Paper Son”:
https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C5111483

To learn more about the University of Texas at Austin/Center for Asian American Studies:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aas/