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16 ott 2012 · As part of the Halle Speaker Series, Hawaii-based filmmaker Robin Lung discusses her work restoring the lost Oscar-winning documentary "Kukan" and discoverin...
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Finding Kukan makes its Hawai‘i broadcast debut, Thursday, June 28 at 9 pm. The documentary tells the story of Li Ling-Ai, a female film producer from Hawai‘i who was uncredited for her work on an Oscar-winning documentary about World War II in China called Kukan. A full copy of Kukan has long been missing, while Ling-Ai’s story has gone ...
16 nov 2016 · She always wanted a film made about her parent’s lives and so she’s got something better here—a film about her. Keep an eye out for more video coverage we have of Finding Kukan .
5 nov 2016 · A filmmaker turns detective to uncover the forgotten story of Li Ling-Ai, the un-credited female producer of KUKAN, an Academy Award-winning color documentary about World War II China that has been lost for decades. Robin Lung. Director, Writer. Shirley Thompson. Writer.
Why we don’t know much about her may be because she was never able to have a full-fledged Hollywood movie career. In 1935 Soo Yong advised islanders that Asians have “A Chinaman’s Chance” of breaking into Hollywood. In the 1930s Soo Yong was interviewed by Loui Leong Hop for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin: “When asked ...
19 ott 2017 · By Betsy Sherman. The new feminist badge of honor “nevertheless, she persisted” (thanks, Mitch McConnell) can be pinned twice over, on documentary Finding Kukan ’s subject, the late Li Ling-ai, and on its maker, Robin Lung. The film is a compelling detective story covering the fields of World War II history and film preservation, where it ...
A chronicle of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression, the project was credited to Rey Scott, an adventurer who had never before made a film. When Hawaiian filmmaker Robin Lung learns that a driving force behind Kukan was Li Ling-Ai, a Chinese-American Hawaiian woman all but erased from its history, she begins investigating the film and its mysterious production, leading to unanticipated ...
