Triad-based Pan-Asian Voices and Experiences of North Carolina is partnering with the Greensboro History Museum to co-host an AAPI film festival Saturday.
The festival will present short films from six local Asian-American Pacific Islander filmmakers. A discussion panel will follow.
Stefan Kei DiMuzio helped organize the festival and will present his three-minute comedy titled Vocafoli.
He says he wants the audience to get to know local filmmakers better from what’s on screen and the Q&A to follow.
“Many of us are not from North Carolina, originally. I myself, I'm from Tokyo. And so, yes, we're seeing our films that we created while living in North Carolina, while being AAPI. There's just something to our backgrounds that kind of helped spur these stories.”
DiMuzio says he’s been to film festivals across the state and rarely sees Asians and Pacific Islanders represented in those works.