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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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