Universities unite to bring awareness to Asian Film

The Wet Georgian | Brandon Carroll

On Oct. 11 and 13, the Office of Institutional Diversity from UWG teamed up with Emory University, Georgia State, and Georgia Perimeter to present the Atlanta Asian Film Festival to the students of their respective campuses. Though each campus screened different movies, the message was the same, to bring awareness to the Asian culture through film.

"I felt the festival was very successful and a great event to have brought to this campus. The students and staff who showed up seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed themselves," said Dorris Keih, who is from the Office of Institutional Diversity and was in charge of the event. "This is the second year we have participated in the film festival and I am very proud that University of West Georgia has stepped up as a co-sponsor."

The two films that were highlighted this year were the films Donor and Hospitalite. The first film that was shown on Oct. 11, Donor a film set in the Philippines, was directed by Mark Meily and was shot in Tagalog, but contained English subtitles. The film is about a woman named Lizette who sells pirated DVD's, and eventually decides to sell her kidney to a wealthy Arabian kidney patient. However, she experiences many obstacles and roadblocks throughout the movie, one of them being an announcement of a change in the law which bans organ transplants between Filipinos and foreigners.

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