Asian Bitches Speak

历经数代文化沉默、多年疫情阴霾与一桩反亚裔仇恨犯罪后，酷儿导演珍妮特带着退休的单亲母亲戴安娜，踏上一场探寻心理健康的自驾之旅。途中，母女二人将深藏的家史细细倾诉，共同开启治愈之路。 

After generations of cultural silence, years of pandemic anxiety, and one anti-Asian hate crime, queer filmmaker Janet takes her retired single mom Diana on a mental health discovery road trip. Along the way, they lay bare their long-buried family history, and together start the journey of healing.   

导演：珍妮特·陈（马）
主演：戴安娜·马，珍妮特·陈（马）
制片人：珍妮特·陈（马）
摄影：诺伯特·谢
类型：记录短片
对白语言：英语、汉语普通话
地区：美国

Director: Janet Chen (Ma)
Cast: Diana Ma, Janet Chen (Ma)
Producer: Janet Chen (Ma)
Cinematographer: Norbert Shieh
Genre: Documentary Short Film
Language: English, Mandarin Chinese
Region: United States

珍妮特·陈（Janet Chen）是一位获奖电影与多媒体导演、制片人及教育工作者。她的创作常以跨代际视角，探索社群叙事中关于文化表征、抗争与韧性的主题。2024年最新短片《亚裔怪物大声公Asian Bitches Speak》接连荣获第40届洛杉矶亚太电影节纪录片短片评审团特别奖、第31届长滩QFilms酷儿电影节短片最佳导演奖、以及第10届女性边界艺术电影节实验纪录片观众选择奖。该片入选2025年Color Congress联盟“抗争与欢悦”巡展计划，在美国多地展映。她曾参与制作多项艾美奖及韦比奖提名作品，拥有加州大学尔湾分校UC Irvine电影研究学士学位与UC Santa Cruz圣克鲁兹分校电影与数字媒体（社会纪录）艺术硕士学位。曾任教于加州大学洛杉矶分校UCLA民族传播中心及尔湾分校UC Irvine电影与媒体研究系，作为亚裔纪录片网络创始理事，亦是影像联盟与布朗女孩纪录片联盟成员。欢迎通过Instagram账号@janetchenma关注其动态。 

Janet Chen (Ma) (she/her/hers) is an award-winning film and multimedia director, producer, and educator. Her work often explores community stories of cultural representation, resistance, and resilience through a multigenerational lens. Her latest short film Asian Bitches Speak (2024) was honored with a Special Jury Award for Documentary Short from the 40th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival presented by Visual Communications, a Best Director Award for Short Film from the 31st QFilms Long Beach LGBTQ+ Film Festival and an Audience Choice Award for Experimental Documentary at the 10th Feminist Border Arts Film Festival. The film toured around the U.S. as part of “Resistance & Joy,” a program of the 2025 Color Congress Elev8Docs Distribution Initiative. Janet has also produced various Emmys and Webby-nominated film and multimedia projects. She holds a B.A. in Film Studies from U.C. Irvine, and a M.F.A. in Film & Digital Media: Social Documentation from U.C. Santa Cruz. She has taught filmmaking at the Center for EthnoCommunications at U.C.L.A. and in Film and Media Studies at U.C. Irvine. She was the founding manager and steering committee member of the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc), and she is a member of Video Consortium and Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM). Connect with her at @janetchenma on Instagram.   

在反亚裔仇恨事件频发的社会浪潮中，这对母女踏上探寻心理健康与代际创伤治愈的旅程。影片创作源自我母亲在美国独立日（7月4日）疫情期间遭遇的反亚裔仇恨犯罪。两年后的同一天，我们选择在保守的美国家乡独立日游行中启程，穿越加利福尼亚州各个具有特殊意义的社群聚集地。通过追溯家族中几代女性的创伤记忆，我们在亚裔移民、女性与LGBTQ+的多重身份交织中找寻自我认同。愿这部作品能推动更多家庭与友人开启对话，共同走向疗愈之路。谨此感谢北京酷儿影展对本片的展映！ 

This mother-daughter journey explores mental health and healing from intergenerational trauma amidst the rise in anti-Asian hate. The film was prompted by an anti-Asian hate crime that my mom survived on 4th of July (Independence Day in the U.S.A.) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The road trip starts two years later at the July 4th parade in our conservative American hometown, and highlights meaningful places of community through California. We examine the trauma from generations of women in our family, and embrace the entanglement of Asian immigrant, female, and LGBTQ+ identities in our search for selfhood. I hope watching our journey can prompt more conversations within families and friends to start their healing journeys. Thank you to the Beijing Queer Film Festival for featuring the film!