Bad Axe
(2024, original release: 2022)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
IFC Films, 2022
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
14820137
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of BAD AXE, Michigan,at the start of the pandemic, Asian American filmmaker David Siev documents his family’s struggles to keep their restaurant afloat. As fears of the virus grow, deep generational scars dating back to Cambodia’s bloody “killing fields” come to the fore, straining the relationship between the family’s patriarch, Chun, and his daughter, Jaclyn. When the BLM movement takes center stage in America, the family uses its collective voice to speak out in their conservative community. What unfolds is a real-time portrait of 2020 through the lens of one multicultural family’s fight stay in business, stay involved, and stay alive

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by IFC Films in 2022

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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