Who We’re Watching: Sandi Tan

Who We’re Watching: Sandi Tan

Image credit: Netflix There’s a moment in the 2018 documentary Shirkers when narrator and filmmaker Sandi Tan says, “We were no longer magical kids who made a movie. We were just kids.” She’s referring to what happened after her friend and mentor, an American...
Women to Watch: Stacey Aglok MacDonald

Women to Watch: Stacey Aglok MacDonald

The logo for the television show Qanurli (What Now?)—which follows Inuk Qablunaaq (Thomas Anguti Johnston) as he lives off the land and hosts a TV show from a tent on the arctic tundra—features a high-top sneaker tied to a mukluk boot, hanging from a satellite. It’s a...
Anna May Wong: Classic Starlet, Trailblazer, and Badass Risk Taker

Anna May Wong: Classic Starlet, Trailblazer, and Badass Risk Taker

In an opening scene of Shanghai Express (1932), a pinch-faced boarding house owner lectures two of her lodgers, a pair of courtesans named Hui Fei (Anna May Wong) and Shanghai Lily (Marlene Deitrich), about respectability. Appalled by Lily’s sauciness, the mistress of...