Cathy Yan

Cathy Yan Instagram – Happy Chinese New Year 恭喜发财新年快乐 ✨ With Dead Pigs finally coming out, almost exactly 3 years after it premiered at Sundance, and 8 years after a very different pandemic affected pigs throughout Shanghai, I can’t help but reflect on what it means to be both Chinese and American right now. There’s been a 1900% rise in hate crimes across the United States towards Asian Americans. I’ve seen a video of an 80 year old man getting shoved to the ground. I’ve received racist messages myself. It’s a tough time for all of us but vilifying large swaths of people based on the way they look or because something happened in a place that shares a continental land mass with their ancestral home will never solve our problems. Because the source of our challenges always comes from within. My only hope is that we find empathy – through connecting with others, interrogating ourselves and finding it through art. We’re all just trying to make sense of this new world, all lonely and scared and missing our loved ones, all trying to stay afloat amidst these giant currents of change, all susceptible to the same doubts and fears and desires for more. That’s what #deadpigsfilm is about and I hope we can find more empathy and kindness in this lunar new year. (Poster designed by the very talented Caspar Newbolt @v_industries) | Posted on 11/Feb/2021 20:46:08