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Inbetween Girl Inbetween Girl director Mei Makino watched through a long list of warm and colorful films while working on her debut feature, a coming-of-age film about a teenager's love affairs in the wake of her parents' divorce. Diary of a Teenage Girl, Clueless, and ... The Social Network? Steve Jobs? "I know it's not what you'd expect," she said. "But I just think those scripts are so tightly written! I was like, 'Yeah! Come on, Sorkin!'" And it shows: Inbetween Girl demonstrates reverence for a multitude of filmic lineages. Sixteen-year-old Angie Chen makes sense of her life by draw...

D: Antoinette Jadaone. Philippines, 2020, 100 min. Opening night film. Filipino idol Paulo Avelino stars as a twisted version of himself in this unique look at celebrity and the teens who worship their flawed icons. (Drive-in screening, June 4, 7:30pm, Community First! Village Drive-In Cinema: Virtual access June 4-6) Center Stage. D: Stanley Kwan. Hong Kong, 1991, 126 min. Glowing 4K restoration of Stanley Kwan's critically lauded 1991 semi-documentary, semi-biopic of Ruan Lingyu, "the Chinese Garbo," with Maggie Cheung as the groundbreaking actress from Shanghai whose tragic fate gave a wa...

Night on Sixth Like every Austinite, Mohit Jaswal has a love/hate relationship with Austin's most internationally iconic thoroughfare. "Sixth Street is one of the worst streets in America," he said, "It's awful and horrible, and we all have to do it at some point, but I just think it's fascinating." Still, the love was enough to spark Jaswal to make free-form Austin comedy-drama Night on Sixth. Filmed in 2019 (back when wandering around and meeting random strangers was still a thing) it makes its premiere at Austin Asian American Film Festival with a special screening outdoors on June 16 at ...