Valerie Soe
Since 1986 Valerie Soe’s experimental videos, installations, and documentary films have won dozens of awards, grants, and commissions and have exhibited at film festivals, museums, and galleries worldwide. Her short experimental video, “ALL ORIENTALS LOOK THE SAME,” won Best International Video at the 1987 Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani, Torino, Italy, First Place, Experimental Category, at the 1987 Sony Corporation Visions of U.S. Festival, and Honorable Mention, Experimental Video, at the 12th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. Her short experimental documentary, PICTURING ORIENTAL GIRLS: A (RE) EDUCATIONAL VIDEOTAPE won Best Bay Area Short at the 1992 San Francisco International Film Festival. Her feature documentary, Love Boat: Taiwan, was released in 2019 and won the Audience Award at the Urban Nomad Film Festival In Taipei, Taiwan, and has played to sold-out festival audiences across North America and in Taiwan. Her short experimental documentary, Radical Care: The Auntie Sewing Squad (2020), made in collaboration with Kronos Quartet and the Auntie Sewing Squad, won a Director’s Choice Award at the 2021 Thomas Edison Film Festival and the 2021 Best of Bernal Award at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema. She is Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.
Scumrock
(2002)
A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity. (more)
A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity. (more)
Love Boat: Taiwan (2019)
A look at the Taiwan Love Boat, where college-aged Taiwanese-Americans get closer to their history, their culture and each other. (more)
A look at the Taiwan Love Boat, where college-aged Taiwanese-Americans get closer to their history, their culture and each other. (more)
All Orientals Look the Same (1987)
This is a short anti-racist film trying to invoke and combat stereotypes. I'm not sure how succesful it is, but it is still written about in Asian American film studies. Clearly as the film shows all Orientals (a term that Edward Said has helped denaturalize) do ... (more)
This is a short anti-racist film trying to invoke and combat stereotypes. I'm not sure how succesful it is, but it is still written about in Asian American film studies. Clearly as the film shows all Orientals (a term that Edward Said has helped denaturalize) do ... (more)
Women of Vision (1998)
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25. They are black ... (more)
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25. They are black ... (more)
Underground Zero (2002)
A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11. (more)
A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11. (more)
Joel Hunt: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) (2015)
Joel Hunt served as a combat engineer from 1998-2007, with multiple tours in Iraq. While there, he endured more than 15 roadside bombs, and experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Today, with the help of his dog, Barrett, he uses sports to push through the ... (more)
Joel Hunt served as a combat engineer from 1998-2007, with multiple tours in Iraq. While there, he endured more than 15 roadside bombs, and experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Today, with the help of his dog, Barrett, he uses sports to push through the ... (more)