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25 movies to watch to celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander heritage Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman © Photo provided Oklahoma filmmaker James D. Payne's 2016 documentary "Far Western" chronicles Japan's embrace of American country music after World War II. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, and this year, it comes at a time when those communities are seeing historic strides in popular culture even as violence and racism persist.  This comes even as the entertainment industry is offering greater exposure to Asian and Asian American f...

Oklahoman May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, and this year, it comes at a time when those communities are seeing historic strides in popular culture even as violence and racism persist.  This comes even as the entertainment industry is offering greater exposure to Asian and Asian American filmmakers, actors and stories. At this year's Academy Awards, Youn Yuh-jung, the scene-stealing co-star of the Oklahoma-made movie "Minari," made history as the first Korean performer to earn an Oscar, as did Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao, who became the first w...

Oklahoman For more than a century, cinema has been a favored American way to tell stories of different peoples and cultures.  But the mainstream movie industry hasn't always treated Native American stories fairly or authentically.  "If you look at Native representation in history, it's been pretty bad. So, almost showing any truthful, real version of Native people is humanizing. ... I think anytime we show Native people kind of on their terms and in their environments, we're humanizing (them) on the screen and we're changing the narrative that history has kind of laid on us — history and ...

Native filmmakers are 'changing the narrative that history has kind of laid on us' Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman © [Sundance Institute] "Little Chief," a narrative short film directed by indigenous filmmaker Erica Tremblay (Seneca-Cayuga) had its world premiere as part of the Shorts Selection at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Tremblay is original from Oklahoma and lensed the short in Oklahoma. The short film stars Lily Gladstone, left and Julian Ballentyne. For more than a century, cinema has been a favored American way to tell stories of different peoples and cultures.  B...