Emory Chao Johnson, director of 'To Write From Memory,' is one of five San Diego-born or -raised filmmakers with works in this year’s festival
Local filmmaker Emory Chao Johnson’s history with the San Diego Asian Film Festival began a decade ago when he was a student in the Reel Voices film internship program run by Pacific Arts Movement, which presents the festival each year. “It was the Reel Voices program that allowed me to first have access to other filmmakers and to technology,” Johnson recalled, “and we got to interface with our instructors. They had a film library and we were allowed to borrow DVDs to check out and watch.
” They would go on to earn an MFA in film and television at UCLA. Johnson is now based in Los Angeles. “To Write from Memory,” they said, “is a work that taps into the trans experience and how we experience time, our gender identity and expression. The atmosphere is saturated in feelings and emotions that are rooted in that experience. “You see this character going through everyday motions of life. There are certain sounds, certain gestures that might trigger a deeper well of experiences.
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