Laureen Chew

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.

A documentary about the making of Wayne Wang's 1982 film CHAN IS MISSING, featuring interviews with the cast and crew.

A San Francisco, une veuve immigrée accueille la nouvelle année avec une certaine tristesse : elle a maintenant soixante-deux ans, elle veut faire un voyage en Chine pour rendre un dernier hommage à ses ancêtres, une voyante lui a dit que c'était l'année où elle mourrait et une de ses filles, Géraldine, reste célibataire.

Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be erased. It was literally cut together from film that was shot for Dim Sum, which was conceived as a film about the ways in which five women of the Chinese diaspora—three American-born, a naturalized citizen, and a recent immigrant—try to balance their personal goals and the expectations of the Chinese American community in which they live. The original story line was thought to be too complicated and ambitious, and, ultimately, significant portions of Dim Sum were rewritten and reshot to focus on Geraldine, a second-generation Chinese American woman, and her relationship with her immigrant mother. However, footage that had already been shot for the film was edited together to create Dim Sum Take-Out, an eleven-minute film made up of narrative segments intercut with music video style segments, set to English- and Chinese-language versions of the song "My Boyfriend's Back."