My Chinatown, With Aloha | PBS Short Film Festival

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About the film

A fourth-generation Chinese American, filmmaker Kimberlee Bassford explores her family’s relationship to Honolulu's Chinatown. She also examines the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1899-1900 bubonic plague in Hawai‘i, highlighting the ways the two public health crises transformed the iconic neighborhood then and now.

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Full Credits

Featuring	Steve S. Alm Eddie Flores Chu Lang Schubert-Kwock Karen Lau Cindy Lee Nicholas Lee Wing Tek Lum Mei Mei Say
Voice of C.Q. Yee Hop	Nicholas Chung
Director	Kimberlee Bassford
Writer	Kimberlee Bassford
Producer	Kimberlee Bassford
Editor	Kimberlee Bassford
Director of Photography	Valerie Narte
Animator	Mahima Tuladhar
Additional Camera	Kimberlee Bassford Henry Mochida Michael Bassford
Motion Graphics	Manjula Varghese
Production Assistant	Kathleen Zhang
Archival Materials	andrewtang.design C.Q. Yee Hop Companies Hawai'i State Archives Jeremy Huang Meredith Nierman/GBH News Pond5 Richard Tao
Special Thanks	Celia Baker Jonathan Bassford Michael Bassford Naleea Bassford Evelyn Chun Mikey Chun Randall Chun Jay Hubert Tami Lee Keolanui Chad Koyanagi Stephanie Lum Barinna Poon David Warman Christina Whinnery Eric Wong

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