2013 is off to a good start with Film Festival screenings

2013 is off to a strong start with multiple film festival screenings lined up for my two short documentaries, The Lower 9: A Story of Home and People Aren’t All Bad. So far, January and February is filled with screenings at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana, Thin Line Film Festival in Denton, Texas, the Seattle Asian American Film Festival and Asians on Film Festival in Hollywood, California.

The Lower 9: A Story of Home
The Lower 9: A Story of Home is a documentary showcasing four determined Lower-Ninth-Ward residents who share their most intimate stories of home, as they resume their lives over seven years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their neighborhood. The individual’s stories find voice in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, abstract cinematography of destruction, and powerful scenes of present-day lives.

ADDED DATES
Thin Line Film Festival: Feb 8-18, 2013
Asians on Film Festival Feb 15, 2026

People Aren’t All Bad
In this short documentary, eighty-eight year Yutaka Kobayashi shares his struggles as a Japanese American before and leading up to the World War II Japanese American Internment Camps. Surprisingly, it was during this dark period in his life that he experienced compassion and kindness from where he least expected it, a gun tower guard from within the Topaz Internment Camp.

ADDED DATES
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival: Feb 15-24, 2013
Seattle Asian American Film Festival: Saturday, Jan 26, 2026 3:00pm-4:30pm