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Trained Chinese Tongue, The

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Producer(s)	Paul Espinosa
Director(s)	Laurie Wen
Runtime	20 min
Format(s)	16mm, video
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

Taking the rituals of food and language as points of departure, this charming documentary explores Chinese-American identity and the immigrant experience. The filmmaker approaches a series of strangersall immigrant womenin a Chinatown grocery store, and then follows them home for dinner. As each of the women prepare the family dinner, the filmmaker opens a door into the important connections between food, language and culture as well as the complex relationship between immigrant identity and class, race and gender.