“All Things Food” Screening and Q&A

Think!Chinatown presents a All Things Food film series on Chinatown food stories on the big screen at the DCTV Firehouse Cinema! From new stories produced by Think!Chinatown to treasures pulled from our community’s archives, go shopping with our neighbors in Chinatown, dive into how our favorite foods are made, and gather around the dinner table with us for our All Things Food film series. Join for a special Q&A with Auntie Lian and Auntie Chen, Fuzhounese opera singers and stars of Think!Chinatown’s short film, “Chinatown Shopping for Fuzhou Eats with Yuhua & Jinmei.”

Curated by Think!Chinatown, the All Things Food program puts Chinatown’s stories on the big screen through the lens of food. Think!Chinatown’s newest mini-doc, Artisanal Chinatown: Tofu 舖, will premiere with this program, alongside Think!Chinatown’s other food-related short films and treasures pulled from our community’s archives.

• Artisanal Chinatown: Tofu 舖 dives into the details of making tofu and the family legacies behind Chinatown’s artisanal tofu shops.

• Chinatown Food Co-op 1971 follows a typical day providing affordable and healthy groceries to the Chinatown community through DCTV’s archival footage.

• The Trained Chinese Tongue, directed by Laurie Wen, examines how Chinese immigrants live at the complex crossroads of food, language, colonization, and immigration.

• Everyday Chinatown: Wok Ring & Steamer Claw highlights common cooking tools of the Asian American kitchen through Lilly Lam’s playful artwork and oral history recordings from community members.

• Shopping in Chinatown, features Chinatown aunties and uncles from Cantonese, Teochew, and Fuzhounese cultural backgrounds who take us on their typical grocery shopping experience.

• Women in Markets, directed by Chyan Lo, explores cooking as a persistent, gendered division of labor in East Asian culture.

• Shop Your City: Grand Street highlights all the best spots to buy sweet treats, fresh seafood, Chinese cultural goods, and more on Grand Street.

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DCTV has been New York City’s preeminent community of and for documentary storytellers since 1972. By providing professional training and tools, access to critical equipment and public exhibition space in Manhattan, DCTV gives youth, aspiring and emerging filmmakers and communities of all backgrounds greater voice and platforms through documentary film. Find more at www.dctvny.org

Chinatown Storytelling Festival is a celebration of Think!Chinatown’s newly produced storytelling projects, as well as a deep dive across archives of short films about Chinatown. Chinatown Storytelling Festival aims to foster the creation and viewership of projects featuring our under-told stories. Find more at thinkchinatown.org/storyfest

Think!Chinatown is a place-based intergenerational non-profit in Manhattan’s Chinatown, working at the intersection of storytelling, arts, and neighborhood engagement. T!C is the team behind neighborhood cultural programs like Chinatown Arts Festival, Chinatown Night Market, Chinatown Block Parties, Chinatown Storytelling Festival, and more. Find more at www.thinkchinatown.org