THE FOURTH WORLD
After his family escaped the mountains of Southeast Asia to the town of Hickory, North Carolina, a young musician travels between his own two mountains: the ancestral past and an unwritten future.
2021.
Short documentary.
Made with 2021 The Sauce Fellowship by the Center For Asian American Media and the New Orleans Video Access center.
Premiered at the 2021 New Orleans Film Festival.
Distribution by the WORLD Channel.
Featured on the UCLA Asian American Studies Center’s online textbook, “Foundations and Futures”