Join us for a coffee hour with filmmakers/poets Cathy Linh Che and Jess X. Snow, collaborators on We Were the Scenery!
We Were the Scenery was shortlisted for the 98th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film and won the Short film Jury Prize for Nonfiction at the Sundance Film Festival in 2025.
Cathy Linh Che is an award-winning poet and multidisciplinary artisT. Her recent poetry collection, Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025) was a Finalist for the National Book Award. Her other work has received numerous awards, including the Kundiman Poetry Prize, Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.
Jess X. Snow is an award-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist and in 2023 was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Their films have been screened at university classrooms and film festivals worldwide: including BFI, Rotterdam, SFFilm, BlackStar, Ann Arbor, Durban (Special Mention of the Jury). They are a Film Independent Fast Track fellow for their debut narrative feature, WHEN THE RIVER SPLIT OPEN. Their work has been written about in Current, Deadline, Hyperallergic, Filmmaker Magazine, Screenslate, the LA Times, Journal of Asian American Studies and elsewhere. Specializing in cross-cultural and multi-lingual storytelling, their filmmaking has taken them to China, Vietnam, the Philippines and North America.
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